Moveon announces donor strike in response to Chuck Schumer's vote for war with Iran

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http://front.moveon.org/schumer-iran/#.VcQuY0Yvu-V

MoveOn.org Political Action Executive Director Ilya Sheyman had the following statement in response to news that Senator Schumer will try to put the nation on the path to war:

Diplomacy has yielded an agreement between the world’s major powers and Iran that will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The only other means of limiting Iran’s nuclear program is war.

While not unexpected, it is outrageous and unacceptable that the Democrat who wants to be the party’s leader in the Senate is siding with the Republican partisans and neoconservative ideologues who are trying to scrap this agreement and put us on the path to war.

Risking American lives in wars of choice isn’t leadership, it’s small and backward.

Our country doesn’t need another Joe Lieberman in the Senate, and it certainly doesn’t need him as Democratic leader. The vast majority of Democratic voters — the people who elected President Obama in part because of our shared belief that war must always be a last resort — will not stand for it. Frankly, we thought Senator Schumer and other Democrats in Washington had learned their lesson after being misled into supporting a misguided war of choice in Iraq.

No real Democratic leader does this. If this is what counts as “leadership” among Democrats in the Senate, Senate Democrats should be prepared to find a new leader or few followers. This is not what the volunteers, activists, small-dollar donors, and voters who actually win elections spend their time and money to support.

In response to Senator Schumer’s decision to side with partisan war hawks, MoveOn.org’s 8 million members are immediately launching a Democratic Party donor strike. We will organize grassroots progressives across the country to withhold campaign contributions from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and from any Democratic candidate who succeeds in undermining the president’s diplomacy with Iran. Our goal will be to secure commitments to withhold $10 million in contributions within 72 hours after this campaign launches.

Sign me up.

[monmouth4]

1. I never did like Schumer nor did I ever trust him. He's made a bad move and I agree he should never

be the Democratic leader. I hope this does you in Senator, you chose poorly...

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2. k&r...

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3. . nt

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4. He opposed Obamacare. He was FOR war in Iraq. He now WANTS war with Iran.

Keep that POS far away from the Senate leadership!!

Time to marginalize that fool.

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5. well, he supported the ACA at the time but has since said it was a mistake to pass it.

Which possibly makes him an even bigger douchebag

[Cha]

15. Wow! wtf was his reasoning that it was a mistake to pass it? He should just join ted cruz and the

teabaggers.

[KeepItReal]

6. Schumer + Pelosi + Wasserman-Schultz = not getting a dime from me

The Democratic "leadership" is either missing in action, or losing fight after fight to the GOP and/or the M$M.

My money will go directly to Sen. Sanders (already has) and my Rep. Barbara Lee - and if I think she needs it, CA Attorney General Kamala Harris.

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7. Pelosi is pulling the votes to save this deal. Wasserman-Schultz is worthless and Schumer

is much worse than that.

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8. I'm sad, I'm a fan of Amy and hoped their teaming up on gun issues was promising.

I don't know how he can square being for reform for less gun violence here, but not be for a very popular foreign policy nuke reform that will have historical resonance and will stave off war.

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9. becaused he knows gun control won't pass but it's an easy pander

for liberal city voters, to try to get them to forget what a war pig he is

He stabbed Hillary in the back with this too, let's not forget. He's on Jeb Bush's side, not hers, when it comes to foreign policy.

[Starry Messenger]

11. I hope voters send him packing.

I like to support people who seem to be trying on issues that the grassroots are pushing on, but the Iran deal is a huge advance and will change our relationships in the region and open avenues for peace, if successful. We need to heal a lot of old wounds in Iran, and this is a great start.

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12. sadly, he and Cuomo are the co-owners of the party here.

He's not going anywhere, and it's depressingly likely he's going to be the next Democratic leader in the Senate, because he's a conduit for Wall Street and AIPAC cash to flow to his colleagues.

He's pretty much everything that's wrong with the Democratic party.

[ibegurpard]

10. I wish I could support this

But I already don't give money to the DNC. Mine goes to local and individual candidates and causes.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. That speaks for me

Who should take Schumer's spot as Senate Democratic Leader? He has forfeited his right to be considered.

[lovemydog]

14. I hope a strong democratic challenger

defeats him in the next election.

[Chakab]

16. I'd love it too, but it will never happen. He gets an insane amount of money from Wall Street and

other NY business interests, and he's got more name recognition than pretty much everybody in either House save for McCain.