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Some black folks are more equal than others, says Congressional Progressive Caucus
If House Democrats were progressives, they would support progressives by helping to elect progressives.
Instead, national Democrats continue their war against progressives.
The latest battle is in Ohio’s 11th congressional district.
The May 3 Primary Election is between Rep. Shontel Brown (D) and Nina Turner, progressive lion and Bernie Sanders ally.
The election is a rematch of last year's Special Primary Election held in August 2021 seen as a proxy race between Clinton-Biden Democrats and progressives, a campaign that saw turnout in Cleveland drop to 13 percent.
Last year, Brown was supported by rightwingers Hillary Clinton, Rep. James Clyburn (D), GOP donors, Israeli extremist money, and the rightest Congressional Black Caucus, the same outfit that supported the Clintons and Joe Biden in presidential primaries after Clinton-Biden created a prison state targeting black and brown Americans, turning the U.S. into a "a leviathan unmatched in human history," (Glenn C. Loury in Boston Review).
Turner is supported by Bernie Sanders, AOC, the Squad and progressive groups finding themselves increasingly at odds with rightwingers who appear to be leading Democrats off an electoral cliff in November.
Democrat Party interests are now dropping $ Millions in the race, two weeks out from May 3.
Reports Andrew Perez in The Lever:
A super PAC bankrolled by a fossil fuel magnate is launching last-minute ads to try to crush the congressional candidacy of a leading proponent of a Green New Deal as scientists warn that oil and gas emissions are making the planet unlivable. If successful, the gambit would deliver an intimidating message from the fossil fuel industry to other Democratic candidates pressing the government to address the climate crisis.
One month after Samson Energy mogul Stacy Schusterman poured $2 million into DMFI PAC, the group purchased TV ads starting Monday to boost Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) in her primary campaign rematch against former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner in a newly redrawn Cleveland congressional district. The primary election date is May 3.
Last year, DMFI PAC spent $1.9 million attacking Turner and promoting Brown, helping the latter win the seat in a special election. The group also spent $1.4 million attacking Sanders during his 2020 campaign.
Noone is the Democrat Party even tries to hide the fact Democrats front for corporate America, and will do anything to defeat progressives.
Last week, The Lever reported, Brown "additionally received support from the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, despite her decision to join the corporate New Democrat Coalition’s caucus, too."
"We’re proud to support and endorse this group of bold, progressive leaders that are fighting for working people in their communities and across the country," Reps. Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal, and Jamie Raskin, the CPC political action committee co-chairs, said in a statement. "Each and every one of them is working every day to take on corporate special interests, fight for economic and social justice, universal health care, climate action, and bold solutions to the urgent crises facing our country.
Taking on corporate special interests? What about corporate America, Big Oil and other GOP-corporate money for Shontel Brown?
Pocan, Jayapal and Raskin didn't say.
Why would a Super PAC spend more on a Democratic primary than a senate race against the likes of JD Vance and Josh Mandel? 🧐 https://t.co/4dTJUk0zCn
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 17, 2022
