The Congressional Black Caucus's Ideological Primary Adventures
from the American Prospect
BY ALEXANDER SAMMON JULY 16, 2021
"The clear ideological bent of what’s supposed to be a non-ideological institution creates a legitimacy and credibility problem. If Brown loses, the CBC’s endorsement will be tarnished even further, adding on to a rough 2020 congressional cycle. And given the energy Clyburn and Meeks have thrown into keeping Turner from winning, it’s worth wondering whether Turner would decline to join the CBC in the case of a victory, a move that would weaken the CBC as well. Rep. Bush vocally considered not joining after the CBC opposed her election, but did eventually join.
Meanwhile, the CBC’s signature legislative contribution, the police reform bill, is now months past the one-year deadline for completion and remains wholly unresolved. Clyburn could spend his time, money, and energy drumming up public support for that, although he’s actually spent more energy undercutting the bill on the cable news circuit than demanding its passage. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ various attempts at voting rights bills, one of which is named for former CBC member John Lewis and which aims to preempt Jim Crow–style Black disenfranchisement, is all but dead, and the CBC has flexed little muscle to save it.
For now, the caucus’s leadership seems content to stoke the divisions of the party’s 2016 presidential primary, to the disservice of its own membership..."
--should be interesting to see what happens--
https://prospect.org/politics/congressional-black-caucus-ideological-primary-adventures/
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