The Vasquez/DSA thing was more about hyperlocal political drama than anything else. Chintelligentsia - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:45 pm: Inconsistency is going to push members and public to lose trust in the “leaders” of these “movements”. The left not only has a purity issue but its purity for some and excuses for others. Can you imagine if LL or RE tried to place migrants on toxic tent camps? What they supposedly kicked Alderman Vasquez out for, increasing CPD budget, is what other DSA aldermen and the mayor they pushed for are now doing and championing.ĬTU and UWF have failed to hold mayor Johnson accountable for worse things than what Lori or Rahm did. DisappointedVoter - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:43 pm:ĭSA has a problem. Now, Bailey targets his opponent with terms like “special interest cash from lobbyists” and “establishment elites” while he gladly accepts government subsidies for his farming complex. As soon as he was elected as State Rep and then State Senate, he decided on a race for governor of Illinois.īailey accomplished very little in terms of legislation while in Illinois government and embarrassed himself during the debate with JB Pritzker. Rudy’s teeth - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:43 pm:ĭarren Bailey’s hobby is running for office. Alders Nugent (39th) and Silverstein (50th) picked up most of these precincts. Some of these voters were critical of Vasquez in terms of providing routine constituent services in a timely and effective manner. Gravitas - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:41 pm:įollowing redistricting, Alderman Vasquez (40th) managed to rid himself of a number of precincts in which single family homeowners resided. It is also what keeps these groups from winning higher offices. Organized or disorganized the purity test is the same. Yes Rich, your comparison is apt and fair. = And Johnson can’t find good people to say yes to joining his senior team.= Rich Miller - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:27 pm:Ī more organized purity process is not exactly something that argues in its favor. And Johnson can’t find good people to say yes to joining his senior team. Trump could never land good people and, in many cases, didn’t want to hire anyone. Interestingly, neither the far left nor far right knows how to govern or hire good people. Go far enough to the left, and you end up on the right, and vice versa, and the antisemitism we see on the extremes reflects my point. pragmatist - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:26 pm: He was then removed.Īgree with it or not, I’d imagine this is a considerably more organized process than whatever the Eastern Bloc has in place. They communicated this to Vazquez and he voted for it anyways. Membership (or democratically elected leadership on the policy team, I don’t remember which) voted to make that budget vote a litmus test for endorsement and membership for elected officials. To be clear DSA is a membership-based organization. JJJJJJJJJJ - Monday, Dec 11, 23 1:26 pm: Vasquez easily won reelection this year, but Bost might not do the same in March.Īnyway, I’m curious if y’all think this is a fair or even accurate comparison. The difference in this particular case is that Ald. They know I am the true conservative in this race, which is why I have the endorsement of one of the most conservative members of Congress – Mary Miller.” “Mike Bost is hoping that special interest cash from lobbyists and establishment elites will paper over his liberal voting record, but the truth is the voters know better. “Darren is MAGA to his core, and I was so honored when President Trump came to Illinois last year for a rally to endorse me and Darren as pro-Trump, America First candidates in 2022.” īailey responded to the announcement by sharing with Illinois Review that Congresswoman Mary Miller’s endorsement is further confirmation of the strong grassroots support he has from the America First movement in the 12th District race. Mary Miller’s endorsement of Darren Bailey… “I would not want to elect a socialist who, just like at the end of ‘Animal Farm,’ starts to look like all the others. “It’s a microcosm of the big problem - the big question on the left … How much purity can we demand?” said. “When you have movements of people who rightfully, and justifiably, are angry at government, it feels like the only energy people know is angst,” he said in a recent interview. The alderman is no longer a member of the local DSA, but he still labels himself a socialist - just a realistic one. has been painted as an anti-law enforcement extremist by his social media critics on the right, yet the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America renounced him in 2020 for a budget vote that maintained Police Department funding. * I noticed something over the weekend and was curious if you saw the same sorts of parallels.
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