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qwlauren35

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Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:55 PM Aug 2020

Is anyone paying attention to Cori Bush in Missouri?

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https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/missouri-election-results-cori-bush-primary-win.html

Cori Bush, a House candidate in Missouri, took down a powerful incumbent last night in a primary result that feels practically seismic. Not only will Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist, almost certainly be the first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress, her victory also feels like a signal that things are fundamentally, profoundly changing for the Democratic Party. It’s possibly the most exciting win by a progressive challenger in the two years since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke the mold.



Two years later, even with her bigger platform, buoyed by more wins by progressive challengers across the country, Bush’s candidacy was still considered an incredible long shot. Among big names on the left, she was endorsed only by Bernie Sanders; her opponent was endorsed by the likes of Planned Parenthood, Kamala Harris, and even the Congressional Progressive Caucus. While Clay touted his relationships with House leadership and longtime community fixtures as assets, he dismissed Bush’s support from Justice Democrats as a reason to consider her a “prop” for outsiders. Skeptics claimed that Bush’s staunch, radical positions against police brutality presented a “disconnect” with what Black voters really wanted.


As protests against the death of George Floyd raged, Bush did not try to soften her views to appeal to more moderate voters who might support BLM but remain wary. She leaned into her role as an activist, and her identity as a Black working-class woman: She criticized the House’s police-reform bill for lacking “real defund language”; she appeared on the street, protesting in St. Louis on the night that one notorious couple confronted participants with weapons in front of their mansion. She was hospitalized twice for respiratory issues. Bush branded herself unapologetically as a fighter, and it didn’t push people away, even in the Midwest. It paid off. “We’ve been called radicals, terrorists; we’ve been dismissed as an impossible fringe movement,” Bush said in her victory speech, during which she raised a Black Power fist. “But now, we are a multiracial, multiethnic, multigenerational, mass movement united in demanding change, in demanding accountability, in demanding that our police, our government, our country recognize that Black lives do, indeed, matter.”




Here is her website: https://coribush.org/
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Is anyone paying attention to Cori Bush in Missouri? (Original Post) qwlauren35 Aug 2020 OP
Seen her on MSNBC a few times recently. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2020 #1
Great! Thanks for sharing mountain grammy Aug 2020 #2
But What About The Billionaires? DanieRains Aug 2020 #3
She got my vote benld74 Aug 2020 #4

OAITW r.2.0

(23,862 posts)
1. Seen her on MSNBC a few times recently.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:04 PM
Aug 2020

She seems pumped to deliver hes message to Congress. We need a whole bunch of these people elected.

mountain grammy

(26,571 posts)
2. Great! Thanks for sharing
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:08 PM
Aug 2020

“We’ve been called radicals, terrorists; we’ve been dismissed as an impossible fringe movement,” Bush said in her victory speech, during which she raised a Black Power fist. “But now, we are a multiracial, multiethnic, multigenerational, mass movement united in demanding change, in demanding accountability, in demanding that our police, our government, our country recognize that Black lives do, indeed, matter.”

Wow! Powerful stuff. Time to take out the old guard and bring in the people. I’ll be paying attention to Cori Bush from Missouri.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
3. But What About The Billionaires?
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 11:13 PM
Aug 2020

The 1% who needs half of everything including our paychecks.

You know, the ones with $50 trillion in wealth literally stolen from us by their lobbying / lobbyists.

Cori, ask them to pay some taxes FOR ONCE. No one else will.

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