Monday, December 03, 2018

New Dems On Parade-- Let's Keep An Eye On Each And Every One Of Them

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Nerdy Van Nerdwinkle (WA), new New Dem chair

Many of the same characters are in the BlueDogs, Problem Solvers, New Dems and other corporately-funded groups of "centrist" Democrats that make up the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. Last week the New Dems elected their new leadership team. Derek Kilmer (WA) takes over from Jim Himes (CT) as chairman. And there are 4 vice-chairs: Scott Peters (CA), Suzann DelBene (WA), Terri Sewell (AL) and Ann Kuster (NH).

But the big news is which newly elected freshmen had decided to declare themselves members of Congress' most corrupt entity, Wall Street's cat's paw inside the Democratic conference. There were few surprises for DWT since we've been warning about most of these 30 candidates alluring the cycle. Six of the seven freshmen who joined the Blue Dog Coalition last week also joined the New Dems, hard core rightist Jeff Van Drew (NJ) being the exception. There's not that big a difference between the Blue Dogs and the New Dems and most of the Blue Dogs are also New Dem members. Traditionall, the Blue Dogs have been more of a hate group (anti-gay, anti-Choice, anti-progressive, etc) and the New Dems just really been all about corruption-- but the two have almost entire melded now. These are the new Blue Dogs:
Jeff Van Drew (NJ)
Mikie Sherrill (NJ)
Xochitl Small (NM)
Anthony Brindisi (NY)
Max Rose (NY)
Ben McAdams (UT)
Abigail Spanberger (VA)
Before we get to the list of New Dems, the Congressional Progressive Caucus also announced its new members-- 25 of 'em, although 5 are also New Dems, which is bizarre since it's literally impossible to be a progressive and a New Dem, although Mark Pocan seems to think bringing conservatives paying lip service to progressivism will be good for fundraising... or something like that. Among real-- all-in-- progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ilhan Omar (MN), these are the ones who are... also New Dems:
Katie Hill (CA)
Debbie Powell (FL)
Angie Craig (MN)
Susan Wild (PA)
Veronica Escobar (TX)
None of them have, for example, signed onto the Green New Deal (at least not yet), even though several of them campaigned very hard on global warming and on environmental issues. Here's the full list of the freshman New Dems. Warning: hope for the best/expect the worst:
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Greg Stanton (AZ)
Josh Harder (CA)
Katie Hill (CA)
Harley Rouda (CA)
Jason Crow (CO)
Debbie Powell (FL)
Sean Casten (IL)
Sharice Davids (KS)
Elissa Slotkin (MI)
Haley Stevens (MI)
Angie Craig (MN)
Sean Phillips (MN)
Susie Lee (NV)
Chris Pappas (NH)
Tom Malinowski (NJ)
Mikie Sherrill (NJ)
Xochitl Small (NM)
Max Rose (NY)
Anthony Brindisi (NY)
Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
Susan Wild (PA)
Lizzie Fletcher (TX)
Veronica Escobar (TX)
Colin Allred (TX)
 Ben McAdams (UT)
Elaine Luria (VA)
Abigail Spanberger (VA)
Jennifer Wexton (VA)
Kim Schrier (WA)
Meanwhile, two Progressive Caucus freshmen who are already seated because of filling empty seats, Joe Morelle (D-NY) and Mary Scanlon (D-PA), are off to good PERFECT starts. Click on the graphic to be able to read which House members are voting the way all House members should be voting:



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5 Comments:

At 10:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is what happens when the theme is "Any Blue Will Do".

The time to start working on replacing these people if necessary is now. Lining up good primary challengers with solid economic support is vital to having any influence on these Neo-Blue Dogs.

This is where you come in, Howie. You have a good Rolodex and you know lots of people. Show us good people, and we will back them. I myself sent money to many of your recommendations, not that I have enough to help much. But I do walk my talk. I ask you to do so as well.

 
At 10:20 PM, Anonymous ap215 said...

Morelle & Adriano Espaillat are from the city & i'm proud to have voted for both of them.

 
At 4:24 AM, Blogger CNYOrange said...

I voted for brindisi, only because of trumpanzee. So what happens in 2020? Will any of these "democrats" be primaried?

 
At 6:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

just a reminder... these blues who have A voting records are most likely being good because THEY CAN without impeding whatever the money wants, due to the Nazi majorities.

After the new congress is seated, they may still mostly vote the same way because THEY CAN without impeding whatever the money wants, due to the bigger Nazi majority in the senate.

Or have we all forgotten 2009-2010? of course we have.

 
At 1:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

a waste of effort watching them all.

There are precisely 2 democraps that now matter: Pelosi and scummer. They and they alone will be responsible for whatever democrap policy is "advanced". All the rest are just ballast.

 

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