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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Warren has released her Q2 fundraising numbers.
- $19.1 million total;
- 683,000 donations;
- 384,000 donors;
- $28 average per donation; and
- 0 closed-door fundraisers.
Warren more than tripled her Q1 fundraising. She’s third behind Buttigieg ($24.8 million) and Biden ($21.5 million), who are both doing big fundraiser events with wealthy donors and lobbyists.
Over 80% of Q2 donors gave to Warren for the very first time; she’s continuing to aggressively expand her field teams in early primary states.
Additional details available here via the Washington Post.
Edited by wisewillow on Jul 8th 2019 at 11:42:10 AM
One: That sort of thing is genuinely appealing to a lot of people, Two: he's really good in front of the camera the vast majority of the time, three; He's openly gay and not in a flamboyant way, which I think sort of plays into the first part and four; as a mayor he's got the situation of being politically experienced but not sullied by congressional politics at either the state or federal level, which is a thing that unfairly in my opinion appeals to people.
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NPR has a write-up regarding Warren's fundraising too
, for those that have viewed too many Post articles this month.
Eesh, Washington D.C. just got hit with 3.4 - 6.3 inches of rain
in two hours today, sparking Flash Flood warnings. Unfortunately, since Congress isn't in session, there's no chance of someone dunking Jim Inhofe's head in the river-road to impress upon him that climate change is, indeed, a thing.
Pretty sure having a meme about just how competent she is ("I have a plan") helped a fair deal with that, especially because it came about largely because she... well, put forward plans.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"She combines the policy focus that was the most appealing aspect of Hillary with a platform that's more aggressively overt about its progressive policies, allowing her to dodge most of the accusations of centrism and DIN Oism from the left. She could possibly stand to have more charm and charisma, which I don't personally have a problem with, but many people are superficial enough to care about, but so far she's passable on that front.
> Eesh, Washington D.C. just got hit with 3.4 - 6.3 inches of rain in two hours today, sparking Flash Flood warnings. Unfortunately, since Congress isn't in session, there's no chance of someone dunking Jim Inhofe's head in the river-road to impress upon him that climate change is, indeed, a thing.
Somewhere someone was hoping to write "Rain falls,congress flooded,politicians confirmed to sink"
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 8th 2019 at 8:01:21 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverShe also doesn't have the decades of witch-hunting and scandals that soured people on Hillary. The worst thing I can think to say about Warren is the whole native american heritage ordeal a while back, which was bad of course but compared to the faults of many other candidates it comes off as pretty minor.
What Epstein's arrest can mean in our times.
More than anything, I don't want my children to live in a place where being rich gets you a meager settlement, while others get life sentences and the celebration of people due to wealth is utterly destroyed.
I'm going to hold off on doing a victory lap until Epstein's actually sentenced to serious prison time. Right now, he's just been arrested. A lot of awful people get arrested.
I can too easily see this case ending in something like a $5,000 fine and then Epstein going on his merry pedophilic way.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 8th 2019 at 3:06:14 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county “Slave Schedules” in the 1850 and 1860 censuses.
The details about McConnell’s ancestors, discovered by NBC News through a search of ancestry and census records, came in the wake of recent hearings on reparations before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Asked about the reparations issue, McConnell, R-Ky., said he was opposed to the idea, arguing it would be hard to figure out whom to compensate.
“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, when none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea,” he said June 18, a day before the House reparations hearing. “We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We’ve elected an African American president.”
NBC News, in several phone calls and emails to McConnell’s office, asked if the senator was aware that his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners. The office did not respond to those requests.
Slavery experts have stressed that descendants of slave owners should not be held personally responsible for the deeds of their forebears. But they have also argued that the families that descended from slave owners, like McConnell’s, are likely to have benefited from the labor of slaves that propped up farm families in earlier generations — a point made by many reparations supporters, who have said that descendants of slaves were never compensated for the economic benefit their forebears made to white families.
“Smaller farms and plantations still benefited enormously from the unpaid labor of enslaved people, which likely helped them build multigenerational wealth,” said Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank in Washington.
Edited by rmctagg09 on Jul 8th 2019 at 8:16:10 AM
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.If I thought reparations would solve the problem, or even really help, I might be for them. However, it seems to me that reparations are more likely to cause resentment and racism more then solve it. That said, the exact same policy with better marking might be effective.
Edited by Soban on Jul 8th 2019 at 8:21:03 AM
I think that reparations would:
- Give money to a lot of people who need money
- Show that the United States isn't giving empty words
So I don't see why reparations wouldn't be good.
The only people who would hate it would be racists and they need to be kicked in the teeth as much as possible.
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And someone else (namely Tom Steyer - can't be arsed to click the news link) is planning their entry.
Also, Trump has openly said he wants reporters to go into the migrant detention facilities
to prove that the Congressfolk are lying. I really, really hope the bluff gets called, and quickly. Though I can already see the Fox News spin - "Ungrateful Illegals Sully Spotless Accomodations"
Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 8th 2019 at 2:09:16 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"