AOC has gone too far. She's coming after Hakeem Jeffries

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It's funny that the article frames AOC as "picking a fight" basically more of the "Progressives are starting fights with Centrists who just want unity until we get past the Trump mess" rhetorical framing. I'm not about to vindicate Progressives of picking fights but it's complete BS that centrists aren't playing that game too. Whatever this squabble is, the one piece of information that never gets debated is that Crowley spread a rumor that won Jeffries a position of power over Barbara Lee. Politico mentions immediately after framing AOC as picking a fight against "a rising star African-American Democrat."

Challenging Jeffries would open an audacious new front in Ocasio-Cortez’s efforts to steer the direction of the Democratic Party, pitting her and allies against a rising-star African-American Democrat seen by some as a potential future speaker of the House. It would also set off another intra-party New York City brawl — Jeffries’ Brooklyn district is just a few miles south of Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx-and-Queens seat — that would peak just as Democrats hope to rally around a presidential nominee in mid-2020.

Jeffries has sparked the ire of Justice Democrats for several reasons. The group feels Jeffries takes too much money from corporate interests, a key litmus test, and is overly friendly with banking and pro-charter school interests. But Ocasio-Cortez is also unhappy that a campaign donation to her from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was allegedly used in a whisper campaign against Lee before her narrow loss to Jeffries in the recent race for Democratic caucus chair — a charge those allegedly involved have called a complete falsehood.

“It’s personal for Ocasio,” said the person who spoke with Ocasio-Cortez and her staff. "And she’s going to go all out to take him out.”

So paragraph one we've got AOC having the audacity to start a fight with a rising star African American Democrat. In paragraph two we get to the reason she's starting this fight which is...Jeffries got his spot in power via a whisper campaign that spread a false rumor about Barbara Lee (also an African American Democrat mind you). Then we get that last little quote for dramatic WWE effect, there's nothing loaded about that one folks. Anyway the walking contradiction of AOC both starting this fight and also picking it as a response to actions from Crowley and Jeffries seems pretty blatant here. They couldn't keep the same energy from one paragraph to the next for this ish. But that won't be part of the larger discussion will it? Jeffries has been wronged and Barbara Lee is an afterthought. Jeffries is a rising star African-American Democrat and Barbara Lee is (D-Calif.).


Anyway, here's a summary of that attack on Barbara Lee (D-Calif) which gave Jeffries his edge (article also links to a more robust report on the story and adds that Jeffries was a protege of Crowley in case anyone is wondering why Crowley played it this way)...

Joe Crowley isn’t handling his loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too well
Crowley apparently warned his Democratic House colleagues before their leadership elections that Lee had donated to Ocasio-Cortez, his primary challenger. Which is true, by the way. The 11-term congresswoman did give $1,000 to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign.

But not until after she had won the primary.

The outgoing New York Democrat reportedly did this as an effort to depict Lee “as part of the insurgency that incumbents in Congress feel threatened by, according to Democrats who learned of the message Crowley was sharing.”

Lee was widely expected to be promoted to House Democratic Caucus chair, but she ultimately lost to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who has supported Trump’s agenda almost twice as often as she, by 10 votes.
 

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What has Hakeem Jeffries done to be considered a "rising star in the Democratic Party"? Especially this is said,

Lee was widely expected to be promoted to House Democratic Caucus chair, but she ultimately lost to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who has supported Trump’s agenda almost twice as often as she, by 10 votes.
 
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Bernie sanders and his delusional cult following are the most dangerous force to progressive politics in the united states. Their purity nonsense have impacted people and taken away rights and this dangerous lunatics should not be rewarded with the democratic nomination.

Bernie sanders
tulsi gabbard

the people who bernie bots admire are jokes and morons their purity politics is dangerous. Bernie sanders and his cult following created this monster.

Anybody who sees bernie sanders and his cult following for the narcisstic incompetent frauds they are means they are ''corporate democrats'' this imbeciles stayed home and refused to vote for clinton and allowed trump to appoint racists radical right wing judges who will take away peoples right and use the justice system to subjugate minorities more and they will be on the court for 40,50 years+

Bernie sanders voted against the brady bill he voted for the crime bill then blamed hillary clinton. The man is a fraud and his whole political movement is a sham, i believe bernie sanders did equal damage or arguably greeted to hillary clinton getting elected than trump.
Blame the arrogant imbecile and his broes who refused to vote and allowed trump to win.

BUT BUT HILLARY DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL!!! okay great now thanks to your purity nonsense a federal judge just found obamacare unconstitutional and thier is a chance the supreme court which trump has packed with right wing judges will dismantle obamacare taking it from millions of americans.

Blame yourself.

ANYTIME YOU HEAR ANY MORON SAY ''CORPORATE DEMOCRAT'' OR ''NEOLIBERAL' BLOCK THEM IMMEDIATELY AND KNOW THEY ARE PART OF BERNIE SANDERS SYCOPHANT CULT FOLLOWERS WHO VALUE PURITY POLITICS AND ARE OK WITH GAMBLE AWAY PEOPLES RIGHTS FOR Policies with no realistic chance of getting enacted.
 
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Bernie sanders and his delusional cult following are the most dangerous force to progressive politics in the united states. Their purity nonsense have impacted people and taken away rights and this dangerous lunatics should not be rewarded with the democratic nomination.

Bernie sanders
tulsi gabbard

the people who bernie bots admire are jokes and morons their purity politics is dangerous. Bernie sanders and his cult following created this monster.

Anybody who sees bernie sanders and his cult following for the narcisstic incompetent frauds they are means they are ''corporate democrats'' this imbeciles stayed home and refused to vote for clinton and allowed trump to appoint racists radical right wing judges who will take away peoples right and use the justice system to subjugate minorities more and they will be on the court for 40,50 years+

Bernie sanders voted against the brady bill he voted for the crime bill then blamed hillary clinton. The man is a fraud and his whole political movement is a sham, i believe bernie sanders did equal damage or arguably greeted to hillary clinton getting elected than trump.
Blame the arrogant imbecile and his broes who refused to vote and allowed trump to win.

BUT BUT HILLARY DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL!!! okay great now thanks to your purity nonsense a federal judge just found obamacare unconstitutional and thier is a chance the supreme court which trump has packed with right wing judges will dismantle obamacare taking it from millions of americans.

Blame yourself.

ANYTIME YOU HEAR ANY MORON SAY ''CORPORATE DEMOCRAT'' OR ''NEOLIBERAL' BLOCK THEM IMMEDIATELY AND KNOW THEY ARE PART OF BERNIE SANDERS SYCOPHANT CULT FOLLOWERS WHO VALUE PURITY POLITICS AND ARE OK WITH GAMBLE AWAY PEOPLES RIGHTS FOR Policies with no realistic chance of getting enacted.

What are you blabbing about?
 

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Bernie sanders and his delusional cult following are the most dangerous force to progressive politics in the united states. Their purity nonsense have impacted people and taken away rights and this dangerous lunatics should not be rewarded with the democratic nomination.

Bernie sanders
tulsi gabbard

the people who bernie bots admire are jokes and morons their purity politics is dangerous. Bernie sanders and his cult following created this monster.

Anybody who sees bernie sanders and his cult following for the narcisstic incompetent frauds they are means they are ''corporate democrats'' this imbeciles stayed home and refused to vote for clinton and allowed trump to appoint racists radical right wing judges who will take away peoples right and use the justice system to subjugate minorities more and they will be on the court for 40,50 years+

Bernie sanders voted against the brady bill he voted for the crime bill then blamed hillary clinton. The man is a fraud and his whole political movement is a sham, i believe bernie sanders did equal damage or arguably greeted to hillary clinton getting elected than trump.
Blame the arrogant imbecile and his broes who refused to vote and allowed trump to win.

BUT BUT HILLARY DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL!!! okay great now thanks to your purity nonsense a federal judge just found obamacare unconstitutional and thier is a chance the supreme court which trump has packed with right wing judges will dismantle obamacare taking it from millions of americans.

Blame yourself.

ANYTIME YOU HEAR ANY MORON SAY ''CORPORATE DEMOCRAT'' OR ''NEOLIBERAL' BLOCK THEM IMMEDIATELY AND KNOW THEY ARE PART OF BERNIE SANDERS SYCOPHANT CULT FOLLOWERS WHO VALUE PURITY POLITICS AND ARE OK WITH GAMBLE AWAY PEOPLES RIGHTS FOR Policies with no realistic chance of getting enacted.
More hoe babble from this guy.

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A political party which minimizes or outright eliminates outside influences is now in the wrong for holding other political parties to the same standard?

We live in interesting times.
 
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Has AOC or Jeffries make removing money out of politics a main objective? if no, then neither one could be shamed into taking corporate donations

As we all know, having more access to money for campaign fundraising is why Pelosi is powerful in her party and why AOC backed down from her initial non-support of her
 
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