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"Former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner, who endorsed Sanders in 2016, was on hand to back Ellis, and said that California contest reflected the same divisions that roiled the party’s chairmanship battle at the national level. 

 

She said Ellis garnered “the same energy that [Minnesota Rep.] Keith Ellison had until the establishment came in and choked the life out of people.’’ While Democratic leaders backed by big money interests “want to talk about Russia and Mr. Trump,’’ she said, they are ignoring “the movement of the people” on bedrock issues like health care."

 

I'm embarrassed that say that Nina Turner was my state senator. She had a fairly promising career before following Bernie into the void. The fact that these people can't see that getting rid of Trump is job one is an example of why they are so destructive.

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I just can't. There are some in Illinois whose anger at the democratic party here is misplaced as well at this point in time. Chicago and much of Illinois is still old school democrats(there have been some local races that have been taken by new faces which is encouraging) but the party itself is still run by the establishment. We have a GOP governor who is a billionaire, yet these people are talking about putting a primary candidate against Mike Madigan when we have the most destructive do nothing governor in the history of the state.

 

Now I am no Madigan fan but right now I am happy he is speaker because who knows how a less powerful speaker might have compromised on some of the issues this governor wants to push(right to work, voter ID laws). It's like channel your efforts accordingly right now. Let's focus on getting the GOP out right now and then roll back and go after those you see as barriers to progress in the party itself. And I still have a lot of issues with the democrats(their messaging is still a nightmare) but can we not get people to unite behind opposing the GOP and bad healthcare, a horrible tax plan, protecting our public lands and support improving the ACA  and a progressive tax plan?

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Here's another gem.  Trump's visit to Israel and he makes a remark about "just getting back from the Middle East" 

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This is day two of the trip, and he’s about to do more flying. He’s only going to get crankier and more error-prone from here:

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