If you’re hung up on political consultants, you’re missing the true import of Cheri Bustos’ diktat about primaries and Democratic incumbents: The threat to consultants– that if they work for anyone who challenges a Democratic incumbent they’re done for– is dastardly and debilitating, but also possible to circumvent.
The real problem is that it’s another signal from the Democratic establishment that rebels are not welcome; progressives are not welcome; independent minds are not welcome. Yet another impediment that the DCCC can throw up against challengers in the never-ending incumbent protection racket that is at the heart of the DCCC.
Two interesting and contradictory things happened in the last few days. Reporters Akela Lacy and Ryan Grim at The Intercept blew the whistle on how the DCCC, completely controlled by Nancy Pelosi, pressured 4 consultants to stop working for Marie Newman, the progressive challenger to anti-Choice, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare Blue Dog Dan Lipinski in Chicagoland. The DCCC told the consultants that “if they continued working against Lipinski, their future business with the party would suffer.”
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