Consultant, adjunct professor & Trustee. I love hanging out w/people foolish enough to think they can change the world. A few of them might. @mooreparkforest
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My personal favorite Black Chicago pic is self indulgent. Me and the ladies who shaped me;) In our backyard at 72nd & University in 1968, my aunt, both grandmothers, mom and me. Photo credit Dad;)
I think Hakeem has north of 225 votes WITHOUT the hold outs, leave them alone and keep it moving.
Asked Darializa Avila Chevalier, the DSA-backed NY Dem if she’d back Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
“That's something I'm still weighing. I think it's going to be a very important vote, and something that I'm trying to make sure that I've discussed with my community, discuss with folks who understand the consequences and the significance of this,” she told me
Yup.
Most folks faves would have to moderate OR they wouldn't and would end up as horrible leaders/Speakers. Everyone has a role and folks in leadership are different than those who are not.
The top 4 have been preparing for this moment.
A lot of new member of the House and Senate whom everybody is celebrating are saying they are willing to work with Trump but Hakeem, the presumptive Speaker, is not allowed to.
Hakeem Jeffries has a choice to make: Will he work with Trump? politi.co/4iFbTZA
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Do we want a Democratic Mike Johnson?
Seriously, Mike Johnson is what you get when you force out the leader who has lead the caucus (in Republican case "conference") and is ready to become Speaker.
Kevin McCarthy is an idiot but he would have been more effective than Johnson.
Jeffries has the votes.
Krystal and her ilk can keep attempting to derail the first Black Speaker of the House all they want.
JEFFRIES HAS THE VOTES!!!
We aren't doing this shit. It's not about your race, it's about you being beholden to corporate interests and opposed to the priorities of the voters who just handed you all this majority.
Recall, Jeffries had to be dragged kicking and screaming to endorse Zohran at the last minute and Schumer never did even though he was the Dem nominee and is one of the most popular figures in the party.
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Good on Jack for calling out @MarkRuffalo's effort to erode Black political power.
How come these folks ain't protesting Trump? 😇
NOW: "No Schumer No Jeffries" Signs as Thousands Join March for Our Democracy in Times Square After Midterm Elections
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One thing I need to point out when it comes to House and Senate leadership. They only need the support of their members and it appears Hakeem has it no matter what the online left thinks.
AI is problematic. In some cases it really messed up features in other cases it actually replaced Terri Sewell with Donna Miller and then f'ed up the actual Donna Miller (she is a friend of mine). Jahana Hayes does not look anything like that. . .
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A NORMAL Party would see a Congressman and Senator lead them through a political tsunami and think “Those two should be Speaker and Leader, respectively — no questions.”
A NORMAL Party would see a candidate who got 75 million votes, 3rd highest in the country’s history, with a 107 day campaign and think “Damn, that’s our candidate! Let’s see what they can do with a full campaign cycle.”
A NORMAL Party wouldn’t have kicked out the most Progressive President in modern history over one bad debate, while his opponent was a senile felon, who never makes sense.
As long as we let contrarian leftist lead the conversation, we won’t be a normal party.
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Hegseth as a Senator sets up a great Dem pick up in 2028.
NEW: Republican sources in Tennessee tell me President Trump is “encouraging” Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn to appoint Pete Hegseth to her U.S. Senate seat.
Blackburn could resign imminently.
That would let outgoing Governor Bill Lee name Hegseth quickly and give Trump time to get a new Pentagon chief confirmed during the lame-duck session.
