Jake Johnson / Common
Dreams
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-give-directly-to-candidates-not-the-dccc/
Denouncing the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee’s new policy of cutting
off firms that work with primary challengers as “divisive” and
“harmful,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday advised small-dollar
donors to stop giving money to the DCCC and instead donate to progressive
candidates directly.
“The DCCC’s new rule to
blacklist + boycott anyone who does business with primary challengers is
extremely divisive and harmful to the party,” tweeted the congresswoman from
New York. “My recommendation, if you’re a small-dollar donor: pause your
donations to DCCC and give directly to swing candidates instead.”
The @DCCC’s new rule to blacklist+boycott
anyone who does business w/ primary challengers is extremely divisive &
harmful to the party.
My recommendation, if you’re a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC & give directly to swing candidates instead.
Some great ones:
My recommendation, if you’re a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC & give directly to swing candidates instead.
Some great ones:
Ocasio-Cortez went on to list
three swing-seat House Democrats up for reelection in 2020: Reps. Katie Porter
(Calif.), Mike Levin (Calif.), and Lauren Underwood (Ill.).
The New York congresswoman’s
call for small-dollar donors to “pause” donations to the DCCC comes amid a
growing progressive revolt against the campaign arm’s new policy, which states
that the organization “will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of
its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting
member of the House Democratic Caucus.”
Progressives vowed to fight
back against the rule, arguing it will disproportionately harm left-wing
organizations looking to transform the party by ousting conservative Democrats.
As Common Dreams reported last
week, leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus met with DCCC chair Cheri
Bustos (D-Ill.) to slam the policy and call for a change.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)
called the DCCC’s rule “a slap in the face of Democratic voters across the
nation.”
In a series of tweets on
Saturday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who reached the House after a primary
victory, warned that the DCCC’s rule risks “undermining an entire universe of
potential candidates and vendors—especially women and people of color—whose
ideas, energy, and innovation need a place in our party.”
Without their willingness to
go against the status quo - it’s very possible that I wouldn’t be in Congress.
(5/x)
If the DCCC enacts this policy
to blacklist vendors who work with challengers, we risk undermining an entire
universe of potential candidates and vendors - especially women and people of
color - whose ideas, energy, and innovation need a place in our party (6/x)
“I believe fiercely in the
potential of our party, but we cannot credibly lay claim to prioritizing
diversity and inclusion when institutions like the DCCC implement policies that
threaten to silence new voices and historically marginalized communities,”
Pressley added. “The lesson of 2018 is that our party is made stronger by the
inclusion of diverse, disruptive candidates and vendors who bring different
perspectives and experiences.”
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