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In reply to the discussion: So Sanders is going back to running as an Indy for his senate seat. [View all]Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)and Dems need to learn it.
He was a left wing candidate who actually called himself a socialist who ran a grassroots campaign that was wildly popular with very little big money support...in America.
Did you guys know that Jackson, Mississippi has an African-American socialist mayor now?
"That unsettled some of Lumumbas foes. Mississippi Republicans were attacking him even before the primary. And he was substantially outspent by primary opponents.
Lumumba answered the critics and the big money with a landslide win that offers further evidence that a new Southern politics is developing at the local level in cities such as Jackson and South Fulton, Georgia, where #BlackLivesMatter and #Fightfor15 organizer khalid kamau won a striking victory in April. A member of Democratic Socialists of America and one of the many young Sanders delegates to last years Democratic National Convention, kamau won 67 percent of the vote in an April City Council contest.
The national Working Families Party tweeted that Lumumbas primary victory was a win for working families in Jackson & inspiring example for cities & communities across US. Democracy for America chair Jim Dean is equally enthusiastic. Chokwe Antar Lumumba wants to put Jacksons government back in the hands of its residents, instead of giving away the citys assets to corporate interests, he declared. His commitment to racial justice and municipal accountability is a model for the kind of leadership we need to see from more candidates up and down the ballot.
https://www.thenation.com/article/jackson-mississippi-just-chose-radical-leftist-chokwe-antar-lumumba-to-be-the-next-mayor/