2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

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this is all facts :yeshrug: unions for the private sector are fine, they're negotiating their share of the company's money. unions for public employees are a fukking disaster
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I posted the wrong article. I meant to post this one.

Pelosi: Progressive Dem wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez is 'like five people'

Pelosi: Progressive Dem wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez is 'like five people'

BY ZACK BUDRYK - 04/14/19 07:00 PM EDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CBS's "60 Minutes" that the left flank of the House Democratic caucus represented by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is “like five people” in a Sunday interview.

Asked by Lesley Stahl about potential insurrections or pushback from the progressive wing of the party, Pelosi responded, “That’s like five people.” She also disputed that there was a distinction between herself and progressive Democrats, saying she herself identified as a progressive.

When Stahl asked for Pelosi’s thoughts on the left wing of the party pushing initiatives such as "Medicare for all," which Stahl said were “allowing the president to say you’re all socialists,” Pelosi noted the GOP made similar claims when former President Lyndon B. Johnson led the creation of Medicare in the 1960s.

“This is an ongoing theme of the Republicans,” Pelosi said. “However, I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that's their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.”

“By and large, whatever orientation [House Democrats] came to Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center. That we have to go down the mainstream,” she told Stahl.

Can the Speaker of the House unify the Democratic party while getting pushback from the left and self-described democratic socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Nancy Pelosi: The 2019 60 Minutes interviewpic.twitter.com/a9wOobPj5g

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 14, 2019
Pelosi also said she respected the office of the presidency too much to rule out any cooperation with President Trump. “He's not worth the trouble of saying you're so horrible we can't work together. No, we need to work together,” Pelosi told Stahl, echoing earlier comments that Trump was “not worth” impeachment.

Asked by Stahl about earlier comments she made referring to Trump’s “assault on the Constitution,” Pelosi expressed confidence the country's system of government could outlast Trump. “Well, I think our future is strong enough — built on a strong foundation to withstand everything, including the current occupant of the White House. I don't think for two terms, though.”
 
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If it was just a salary and book profits, he would have released them. There's real estate in there, and I wouldn't be stunned if it doesn't look good.
 
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If it was just a salary and book profits, he would have released them. There's real estate in there, and I wouldn't be stunned if it doesn't look good.
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theres nothing wrong with someone accumulating a couple million by the time he's almost 80 years old :yeshrug: seems like fake outrage. it hardly makes him the 3rd koch brother

i guess its his fault for bytching about millionaires all the time :dead:
 
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I got you, breh.

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Everything is about race or gender huh. You can't possibly prefer a white person over a Hispanic, it must be Something Else. fukkouttahere. Castro is not a good candidate and hasn't even found traction within the Hispanic community. Warren isn't good on the stump. Most of the women running aren't good on the stump, in fact.

It's not surprising that the candidates doing the best (outside of Bernie) are very good speakers who have some level of charisma. Beto, Pete, Harris...they can connect with a crowd. Castro just comes off as a blank face.

only candidate I genuinely like is Yang (who of course is not charismatic or a good speaker, and has zero shot) but that's moreso due to him not being an idiot on monetary policy, an issue I'm serious about.
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I'll wait for a thorough investigation that he is a Russian agent

Bernie Sanders releases 10 years of tax returns detailing millions in earnings
Bernie Sanders releases 10 years of tax returns detailing millions in earnings
BY ED O'KEEFE, ANDREW BAST

APRIL 15, 2019 / 6:00 PM / CBS NEWS



He has spent years railing against the excesses of the wealthiest Americans, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is now among those that can be called a millionaire, according to his federal tax returns.

The independent senator from Vermont, who is leading early polls of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, released a decade's worth of tax returns on Monday that show he has earned seven figures in recent years, largely due to sales of his 2016 book, "Our Revolution."

Sanders and his wife, Jane, had an adjusted gross income of $561,293 in 2018, paying a 26 percent effective tax rate. In 2017, Sanders and his wife reported an adjusted gross income of a little more than $1.1 million from book sales. In 2016, the couple reported a little more than $1 million, mostly from sales of the book, which was also translated into five other languages.

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Sanders earns $174,000 annually as a U.S. senator. Book sales accounted for $391,000 of his earnings in 2018, according to his most recent tax returns. In 2017, the book generated $855,631 in income, up from $840,485 in 2016.

"These tax returns show that our family has been fortunate," Sanders said in a statement accompanying the tax returns.

He added later that "I consider paying more in taxes as my income rose to be both an obligation and an investment in our country. I will continue to fight to make our tax system more progressive so that our country has the resources to guarantee the American Dream to all people."

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Sanders released his 2014 tax returns and said he would release more if he earned the nomination. For months, the Vermont senator has said he would release several years of tax information, but had continued to delay the release, raising questions about whether there was something in his financial history that would upset his supporters.

Asked about the whereabouts of his tax returns in an interview with CBS News last week, Sanders said he would release them by April 15. He joked his supporters might be thrown off by "my trillions of dollars of investment in Saudi Arabia or Russia."

Turning serious, he explained: "I make what a United States senator makes. I wrote two books in recent years. One of them was a bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list. Translated to five or six languages. It did very well. I made money on that book. Second book, I didn't make quite so much money. So that's the kind of where the money came from above and beyond our congressional salaries. Years ago my wife was a president of a college. That's about it."

He promised "no great revelations. Sorry to disappoint you."

Over the weekend, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, released 15 years of tax returns, the most of any Democratic presidential contender. The senator and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer, reported an adjusted gross income of about $1.9 million in 2018, substantially more than the $142,000 Harris declared in 2004 when she was the district attorney of San Francisco. They paid just under $700,000 in federal taxes, a tax rate of nearly 37 percent.

Over the past five years, the couple has paid over $2.2 million in federal taxes at an average effective tax rate of about 33 percent. Harris has been filing jointly with her husband since they were married in 2014.

Harris's 15 years of returns surpass the decade's worth of tax information from fellow Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand.

But among presidential candidates, Jeb Bush still holds the modern-day record for the size of a total tax release. The former Florida governor released 33 years of tax returns during his failed 2016 presidential bid.

With Congressional Democrats embroiled in a standoff with the White House over the release of President Trump's tax returns, the party's White House hopefuls will likely face pressure from activists to set an example and release their tax information.

First published on April 15, 2019 / 6:00 PM
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