Democrats question Levi Sanders running for Congress in a district he doesnt live in

[Exotica]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/How-can-Levi-Sanders-who-lives-in-the-west-of-NH-run-in-CD1-to-the-east-15929819

Levi Sanders made national headlines as he announced his bid for the U.S. House in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District.

When you have a famous father – Levi’s the son of U.S. senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – it’s only natural.

But here in the Granite State – Sanders’s announcement also grabbed attention – and some derision – because he lives in Claremont, near the Vermont border and far from the First District, which covers the eastern part of the state.

While it’s uncommon for a candidate to live outside the district in which they’re running, it is legal. The U.S. Constitution only mandates that House members reside in the state they serve.

Sanders also made news by becoming the eighth Democratic candidate – including two strong supporters of his father’s 2016 White House bid – to try and succeed retiring four-term Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter.

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[guillaumeb]

1. In Illinois, Congressman William Lipinski retired after making certain that his son would be the

next Congressman from the 3rd District. His son lived in Kentucky at the time, where he was teaching school.

[Exotica]

2. Dan Lipinski is anti choice, anti LGBTQ, so also not someone I would support

[guillaumeb]

3. I am working for his opponent, Marie Newman.

A few local groups are holding events, phone banking, and going door to door.

[Exotica]

6. I hope she wins!!

[guillaumeb]

14. She was endorsed by SEIU,

and has picked up many other endorsements. Lipinski rarely has Town Hall meetings, he relies on his name and the local Democratic organization. The seat is so safe that the GOP opponent is Arthur Jones, a Nazi Party member who showed up at a candidate forum wearing a MAGA hat.

[Exotica]

17. I saw a video on Jones, he is a REAL Nazi

[guillaumeb]

19. Yes, I was not being hyperbolic.

He marched in Nazi gear during a Nazi parade in a heavily Jewish suburb. He is a vicious hater.

[Exotica]

24. True dat

[Me.]

7. Good Luck

not loving LS' views

[guillaumeb]

18. If you care to elaborate, feel free.

I will state in advance that I was a Sanders supporter in the primaries.

[Me.]

20. But The Father Is Not The Son

I will state I voted for HRC. That, however, has little to do with my impression of LS which is not favorable. The only connection to HRC is his criticism of Chelsea for freely stating her views. 1st Amendment Levi and if you want to be a member of Congress that is a basic need to know. In addition, other tweets of his leave me unimpressed, I believe NH can do better than him.

[marybourg]

10. Postcards for Voters are supporting

her campaign too.

[guillaumeb]

15. We have received 2 postcards at our house.

Having heard her speak, she is intelligent and progressive. Lipinksi is intelligent and the incumbent.

[Squinch]

4. I question Levi's congenital need to trash Democrats.

[NurseJackie]

12. Yes. This. Thank you.

[guillaumeb]

16. All Democrats?

No.

[sheshe2]

21. Well.Not all...

Off the top of my head...Chelsea. Obama. Harris. McCaullife. Hillary. A few pretty big names.

Also:

Levi’s tweets criticizing “identity politics,” resenting the invocation of the phrase “white privilege,” and downplaying the importance of nominating a woman as the 2020 Democratic nominee are an awkward fit in a Democratic primary. But they represent a broader tendency with the broader Bernie movement that Bernie himself has tried to downplay or pivot away from.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17059670/levi-sanders-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-congress-first-district

[guillaumeb]

29. Bernie Sanders sees the world through an economic perspective.

A mainly class-based analysis. And while I share his economic analysis to a large degree, I feel he fails to make the linkage between economics and race/gender discrimination.

I feel that the 1% use race and sex (and other things as well) as a method to divide workers and permit the rich to exploit workers. So that is a class based analysis, but any class based analysis must also recognize how racism and sexism are the primary ways to divide.

[emulatorloo]

34. Went after Elizabeth Warren as well.

[NewJeffCT]

43. Wasn't he also against removal of symbols

of the Confederacy?

[sheshe2]

45. Yes. nt

[Squinch]

25. .

[Me.]

5. "he decides to parachute in on the top and try to organize from the top down"

so says a candidate for the office who supported BS for his run.

[Voltaire2]

8. He qualifies according to the rules.

Maura Sullivan, the DCCC backed candidate didn’t even live in the state until recently.

The voters will figure it out.

[Exotica]

9. I hope she wins, she doesnt attack Democrats, and I trust the DCCC

[SunSeeker]

11. Sounds like there are better Dem candidates. nt

[NurseJackie]

13. Many people share your feelings...

... including me.

[sheshe2]

22. Agree.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. NO TO DYNASTIES!

Or something.

[jalan48]

26. All this anti-Sanders information. Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street must be getting

nervous about the Progressive wave sweeping the country.

[tammywammy]

27. How is it anti-Sanders to point out he doesnt even live in the district?

[JI7]

28. There is nothing progressive about Levi Sanders.

[Maven]

30. He isn't progressive.

In fact, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that he's cool with racism, if not a full-on apologist for white supremacists.

Link to tweet

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Oh, here he is praising Dana Loesch.

Link to tweet

Here he is decrying the removal of the confederate flag from the VA license plate.

Link to tweet

Here he is attacking Pres. Obama on surveillance. Sound like someone we know?

Link to tweet

Here he is praising Trump for tapping into people's "anger and pain".

Link to tweet

And on and on.

Fuck Levi Sanders.

[GulfCoast66]

31. Every time I go down this road I risk a hide...

But historically he is a progressive.

In the last decade or so very liberal Democrats have taken to calling themselves progressives to distinguish themselves from more moderate democrats.

The problem with that is the progressive movement is well over 100 years old and for most of that time social Justice issues were not helpful to their economic causes at best and often seen as an impediment.

My dad grew up liberal in the depression south and hated southern progressives with their chicken in every pot...and keep the blacks in their place. Northerners who today call themselves progressive yet lack that historical knowledge are today often confused and sometimes outright hostile at Southern African Americans of a certain age rejecting progressives.

From what I have seen, and in my opinion only, that original strain of progressivism remain alive and well within parts of the movement.

NOT on DU now. But 2 years ago, hell yeah.

Call me a liberal

Call me a leftist

Please call me a Social Democrat.

Do not call me a progressive.

[Cha]

49. Praising Dana Loesch, too

Link to tweet

Thank you for all this, Maven

[TheSmarterDog]

32. Thank you for the RT spin.

[Squinch]

33. You keep telling yourself that.

[emulatorloo]

35. You sound awfully defensive. And over a fool who happily retweeted RW hack Dana Loesch.

Lie down with Loesch you might get fleas. You are smarter than this shit.

[Nevernose]

36. Normally I would agree

In fact, I posted yesterday about all of the anti-Bernie bullshit that is not just here, but abundantly clear has become a priority on the agenda.

However:

Candidates running in a district they don’t live in or have a serious record with, at best, is irksome. Often it’s a warning sign.

That asshole in Illinois being challenged by a progressive? Doesn’t bother me. That progressive in Houston moving back to her hometown that got trashed by the DCCC? She doesn’t bother me, because it was her home for a long time.

This one has me suspicious.

[jalan48]

38. My comment was meant to include Bernie. You make a good point about other Progressives as well.

[emulatorloo]

40. You are sweet but too naive. Too taken in by pseudo progressives and idiotic binary thinkin

ideologues. Eyes on the prize, these asshats don’t move the progressive cause forward. All they do is promote Republicans.

. If a “progressive“ is retweeting a rightwing NRA mouthpiece he is not a progressive. I don’t care if his name is SANDERS

If some ideologue tells you liberal Dems are the enemy rather than reactionary Republicans, then reject that liar, rather then thinking it is cool to repeat that fucked up nihilistic nonsense here at Du or to your friends irl. It isn’t “cool” or “edgy” it is dangerous, and some day you will live to regret it.

[jalan48]

41. Oh my! A voice from on high!

[emulatorloo]

42. Well done! However I was all about the-parties-are-just-same-nonsense myself

Until Reagan got his second term, then I realized I was duped and had been a fool.

Take care of yourself.

[jalan48]

44. You too. Reagan never fooled me for a minute. I remember him as Governor.

I've also learned it's never all or nothing. The Vietnam War taught me that about political parties. Even the good guys get it wrong sometimes, and on some big issues. Follow the money as they say.

[emulatorloo]

48. Very true, Vietnam a disaster

[BannonsLiver]

39. LOL

This is a pipe dream alternate reality fantasy perpetuated by sanders followers. Maybe people are just tired of Levi shitting all over party leaders.

[Jim Lane]

37. He wants to represent a place where he has no ties, just because he has a famous surname?

Shocking. Absolutely unheard of.

What is the Democratic Party coming to?

[QC]

46. Didn't Jon Ossoff do the same thing?

I seem to recall that he lived outside the district he was running in, but I wouldn't swear to it.

[Exotica]

47. He grew up in the district, in Northlake, but a year or 2 before he had moved 2 miles outside

the district border with his fiancée, so she would have a much shorter drive to medical school at Emory University.