{"id":190106,"date":"2010-01-06T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/06\/oh-god-not-this-jerk\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T02:12:00","slug":"oh-god-not-this-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/06\/oh-god-not-this-jerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, God, Not This Jerk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harold Ford, of the deeply corrupt Ford political clan in Tennesee is being groomed to challenge Kristen Gillibrand in the New York State Democratic Senate primary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Encouraged by a group of influential New York Democrats, Harold Ford Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is weighing a bid to unseat Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in this fall\u2019s Democratic primary, according to three people who have spoken with him.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ford, 39, who moved to New York three years ago, has told friends that he will decide whether to run in the next 45 days. The discussions between Mr. Ford and top Democratic donors reflect the dissatisfaction of some prominent party members with Ms. Gillibrand, who has yet to win over key constituencies, especially in New York City<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s be clear what they mean when they say, “especially in New York City”: they mean that they think that they might have a chance because Harold Ford is black.<\/p>\n

Since losing his race for the Senate in 2006, Ford has been a mouthpiece for the corporatist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) what is going on here is that the powers that be in New York, well, the DINO ones, have been “disappointed” in Gillibrand, because, as she has moved from a very conservative congressional district to a rather liberal state as her constituency, her positions have changed:<\/p>\n

Some of the donors who have urged Mr. Ford to consider a run expressed alarm as Ms. Gillibrand, who as a congresswoman represented a conservative upstate district, has abandoned some of her previous positions on issues like gun control and immigration as she prepares to run statewide. Several executives interested in a Ford candidacy said that Ms. Gillibrand\u2019s positions echoed Mr. Schumer\u2019s and that the state needed a second independent voice in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What they are saying here is that they don’t want a real Democrat here, they want a corporate whore, and that is what Harold Ford is.<\/p>\n

Most of the opposition to Gillibrand in the New York Democratic party comes from people who think that she is too conservative for the party and for the state, but the people mentioned here, like “Financier Steven Rattner,” who ran the auto bailout until an influence buying scandal forced him out.<\/p>\n

I’m not a fan of Gillibrand, but Harold Ford? What they hell are they thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harold Ford, of the deeply corrupt Ford political clan in Tennesee is being groomed to challenge Kristen Gillibrand in the New York State Democratic Senate primary: Encouraged by a group of influential New York Democrats, Harold Ford Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is weighing a bid to unseat Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in this …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}