{"id":199251,"date":"2007-08-21T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/21\/this-guy-is-a-dino-who-needs-a-serious-primary-challenge-and-no-support-in-the-general\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T21:29:00","slug":"this-guy-is-a-dino-who-needs-a-serious-primary-challenge-and-no-support-in-the-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/21\/this-guy-is-a-dino-who-needs-a-serious-primary-challenge-and-no-support-in-the-general\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy is a DINO Who Needs a Serious Primary Challenge, and No Support in the General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article praises him for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pennlive.com\/pennsyltucky\/2007\/08\/carney_winning_over_some_foes.html#more\">reaching across the aisle to right wingers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that he can&#8217;t be Paul Wellstone, but we need no more Liebermans.<\/p>\n<p>Cases in point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voted against the hate crimes bill when he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">specifically<\/span> promised to support it.  He was one of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">only 14 <\/span>Dems who voted against the bill.  Let&#8217;s put it clearly, when he had a choice between voting what he promised, and voting with the Klan in his district, he voted with the Klan.<\/li>\n<li>Gave a &#8220;non-endorsement endorsement&#8221; of Hagel\/Bloomberg for President.  Note that Hagel supports criminalizing abortion, and has voted for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">every<\/span> Bush judicial nominee).<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s specifically cut down a potential Dem Presidential Nominee ( (&#8220;Certainly we are not Hillary Clinton. We don&#8217;t govern like she does.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s constantly voted for  Bush and against the Bill of Rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So he&#8217;s a lying sack of excrement DINO Dem, but I repeat myself.<\/p>\n<p>Note that his re-election is a priority of the DCCC, so I would suggest that you give either directly to the candidates, or someone like Act Blue.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, any DCCC money going to him is largely wasted anyway.  Last time, he ran against a guy who was being sued for choking his mistress.  Won&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>The DCCC should not throw good money after bad.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/chris-carney-democrat-gone-bad-really.html\">Down With Tyranny<\/a> on this if you want get a better written take on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>If a member of the DCCC wants to dispute this, I&#8217;ll publish it, unedited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article praises him for reaching across the aisle to right wingers. I understand that he can&#8217;t be Paul Wellstone, but we need no more Liebermans. Cases in point: Voted against the hate crimes bill when he specifically promised to support it. He was one of only 14 Dems who voted against the bill. Let&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199251"}],"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=199251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}