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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats question Levi Sanders running for Congress in a district he doesnt live in
http://www.concordmonitor.com/How-can-Levi-Sanders-who-lives-in-the-west-of-NH-run-in-CD1-to-the-east-15929819Levi Sanders made national headlines as he announced his bid for the U.S. House in New Hampshires First Congressional District.
When you have a famous father Levis the son of U.S. senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders its only natural.
But here in the Granite State Sanderss 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 its uncommon for a candidate to live outside the district in which theyre 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 fathers 2016 White House bid to try and succeed retiring four-term Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter.
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)next Congressman from the 3rd District. His son lived in Kentucky at the time, where he was teaching school.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)A few local groups are holding events, phone banking, and going door to door.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)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
(1,461 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He marched in Nazi gear during a Nazi parade in a heavily Jewish suburb. He is a vicious hater.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)not loving LS' views
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I will state in advance that I was a Sanders supporter in the primaries.
Me.
(35,454 posts)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
(12,584 posts)her campaign too.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Having heard her speak, she is intelligent and progressive. Lipinksi is intelligent and the incumbent.
Squinch
(50,901 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)No.
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Off the top of my head...Chelsea. Obama. Harris. McCaullife. Hillary. A few pretty big names.
Also:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17059670/levi-sanders-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-congress-first-district
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)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
(44,057 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)of the Confederacy?
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)so says a candidate for the office who supported BS for his run.
Voltaire2
(12,939 posts)Maura Sullivan, the DCCC backed candidate didnt even live in the state until recently.
The voters will figure it out.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... including me.
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Or something.
jalan48
(13,838 posts)nervous about the Progressive wave sweeping the country.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)JI7
(89,239 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)In fact, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that he's cool with racism, if not a full-on apologist for white supremacists.
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Oh, here he is praising Dana Loesch.
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Here he is decrying the removal of the confederate flag from the VA license plate.
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Here he is attacking Pres. Obama on surveillance. Sound like someone we know?
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Here he is praising Trump for tapping into people's "anger and pain".
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And on and on.
Fuck Levi Sanders.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)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
(296,774 posts)TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)Squinch
(50,901 posts)emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)Lie down with Loesch you might get fleas. You are smarter than this shit.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)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 dont live in or have a serious record with, at best, is irksome. Often its a warning sign.
That asshole in Illinois being challenged by a progressive? Doesnt bother me. That progressive in Houston moving back to her hometown that got trashed by the DCCC? She doesnt bother me, because it was her home for a long time.
This one has me suspicious.
jalan48
(13,838 posts)emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)ideologues. Eyes on the prize, these asshats dont 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 dont 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 isnt cool or edgy it is dangerous, and some day you will live to regret it.
jalan48
(13,838 posts)emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)Until Reagan got his second term, then I realized I was duped and had been a fool.
Take care of yourself.
jalan48
(13,838 posts)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
(44,057 posts)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
(11,175 posts)Shocking. Absolutely unheard of.
What is the Democratic Party coming to?
QC
(26,371 posts)I seem to recall that he lived outside the district he was running in, but I wouldn't swear to it.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)the district border with his fiancée, so she would have a much shorter drive to medical school at Emory University.