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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/452918-house-democratic-caucus-rebukes-ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staffThe House Democratic Caucus issued a rebuke of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs (D-N.Y.) chief of staff Friday evening amid a public spat between House leadership and a small group of progressive members. The caucus hammered Saikat Chakrabarti for comments he made going after Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), who is Native American. Chakrabarti said in the quoted tweet that Davids had taken votes that enable a racist system.
Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color? Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue. Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth, the House Democratic Caucus tweeted Friday evening.
Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?
Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.
She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue.
KeepHerNameOutOfYourMouth. pic.twitter.com/k4sV5hsbQl
House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) July 13, 2019
Chakrabarti pushed back, calling Davids a friend and emphasizing that his previous tweets were aimed at calling out a "terrible border funding bill that 90+ Dems opposed," saying it "gave Trump a blank check to continue caging people in horrendous conditions."
"Our Democracy is literally falling apart. I'm not interested in substance-less Twitter spats," he added.
Everything I tweeted 2 weeks ago was to call out the terrible border funding bill that 90+ Dems opposed. It gave Trump a blank check to continue caging people in horrendous conditions. Our Democracy is literally falling apart. I'm not interested in substance-less Twitter spats.
Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) July 13, 2019
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True Blue American
(17,972 posts)The man is not capable of being a spokes person.
Celerity
(42,637 posts)for white liberals.
All this shit has to end, it is spinning out of control.
A senior House Democratic aide said:
Shes only a woman of color when its convenient. None of the things shes fought for aligned with communities of color and her group is funded only by elitist white liberals; shes a puppet, the top Democratic aide told The Hill in a phone call.
The aide then texted an image of a Goomba puppet from the Super Mario Bros. video game.
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)The news should be filled with clips from CSPAN wall-to-wall coverage of hearings digging out all the crimes and criminals of the TrumPutin administration, not food fights and tantrums in the Democratic party.
hlthe2b
(101,703 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)employee after all.
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)We need no cannibalism amongst the Dems, right now.
mcar
(42,206 posts)Singling out a Native American rep?
Autumn
(44,744 posts)yardwork
(61,408 posts)Autumn
(44,744 posts)He has a media platform and the Dems should call his worthless ass out.
yardwork
(61,408 posts)I mean, it's going to take a lot of time to call out every worthless moran that has a media platform.
Maybe there's a more strategic approach like, I don't know, helping Democrats regain the majority in Congress and taking back the White House.
Autumn
(44,744 posts)yardwork
(61,408 posts)There are only so many hours in the day. I don't think it's a good use of elected officials' time to call out every single stupid talking head.
Autumn
(44,744 posts)I see.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Link to tweet
highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)silentEcho
(424 posts)This seems to be the manner in which she operates.
I think AOC has opportunities in her future but not with the carelessness or immaturity I see today.