Well, this totally sucks.
Primaries Are Essential For A Healthy Democratic Party
Last week the DCCC announced a new rule-- something they've been doing, secretly, for years: Anyone who works with a candidate challenging an incumbent Democrat will be blacklisted.
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If you do TV ads and work for someone like, say, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez against corrupt establishment icon Joe Crowley (circa 2018), you can no longer do any work for the DCCC or its candidates.
Sound anti-democratic to you?
It is, especially when you consider that millions of Democrats in scores of deep blue districts in every part of the country have no way to hold their reps accountable except through primaries.
And AOC is hardly the only Democrat who got into Congress by challenging and beating an incumbent.
ozens of current members did exactly that.
Last year Ayanna Pressley beat Mike Capuano in Boston.
Ro Khanna beat Mike Honda in Silicon Valley and Eric Swalwell beat Pelosi-crony Pete Stark in the San Francisco suburbs in 2012.
Beto first won his race in El Paso by winning a primary against a Pelosi-crony who no longer was seen to be serving the best interests of the community.
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