Keith Ellison Wants An Economy For Everyone Even Trump Voters

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Keith Ellison Wants An Economy For Everyone — Even Trump Voters
Zach Carter and Daniel Marans
Huffington Post

Ellison made his case in a new interview with The Huffington Post. (Watch the whole thing in the video embedded above.) His diagnosis of the Democratic Party’s current affliction is simple. He thinks the “trust relationship” with working people has deteriorated too far, and that the party needs to forcefully reassert itself with that community.

“If we believe the Democratic Party is the party for working families, then we gotta be all about some working families,” Ellison told HuffPost. “Respect for all, opportunity for all ― that’s the Democratic Party.”

That strategy includes reaching out to Trump voters. “There’s a bunch of Obama-Obama-Trumps out there and I think we can get them back if we go to them and sit with them and listen to them in the VFW hall and in the union hall,” Ellison said, noting engagement with sometime-Republican voters has “worked for me in my own district.”

There isn’t much ideological daylight between Ellison and Perez. On DNC issues, the two have so far only differed from each other on whether the party should accept donations from lobbyists ― Ellison is opposed to lobbyist contributions, and Perez is not. In interviews with HuffPost, both have sworn off negative campaigning against each other. “I don’t want anybody supporting me to be downing Tom,” Ellison said, reflecting Perez’s insistence that the DNC race “is a conversation within the family.”

[Mosby]

1. the guy has repeatedly shown bad judgement re Jews and Israel

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Whether it was support for the NOI or BDS, calling Israel an apartheid state, the man lacks good judgment, regardless of his apologies.

I did not adequately scrutinize the positions and statements of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed,” Rep. Ellison writes. “I wrongly dismissed concerns that they were anti-Semitic. They were and are anti-Semitic and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did. I regret that I didn’t.”

I had Farrakhans number by the time i was 10, guess it takes longer for some of us to grow up.

[Ohioblue22]

2. the gop needs to be made small enough to drown in a bath tub

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[alarimer]

3. I agree

Why should it be otherwise? That's simply being vindictive.