2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races
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Julian's campaign lead:
You have some homework to do:
Thread by @_celia_bedelia_: "Julian Castro was Secretary of HUD for two years. There was a man named Shaun Donovan who was there for 5 and a half years and was actually […]"
Julian Castro was Secretary of HUD for two years. There was a man named Shaun Donovan who was there for 5 and a half years and was actually the one that implemented the program y’all are talking about. Seriously whenever people bring I know y’all don’t understand how things work.
The DASP (Distressed Asset Stabilization Program) was created by the FHA in 2012. Here’s a decent overview: safeguardproperties.com/fhas-distresse…
What a lot of people don’t realize is that some policies don’t always work exactly as intended and over time they need to be adjusted or modified. Do you know who the Secretary was that implemented changed to the program? JULIAN CASTRO.
hud.gov/sites/document…
God y’all could you make it a little less obvious you’re just mad Julian dared to mildly criticize Bernie?
Listen, I think DASP was not a good program but putting it on Castro shows me you don’t understand how shyt works.
Y’all really think one program exacerbated the racial wealth gap?!? ONE PROGRAM? JULIAN IMPLEMENTED THE AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING RULE. One of the more consequential fair housing initiatives in recent history
FFS. This is so fukking irritating to me. I’ve worked in affordable housing my entire fukking career. I worked on these programs DURING THE ACTUAL HOUSING CRISIS. I’ve seen it all. It was a mess. yes, programs failed. But a lot of y’all didn’t care until Bernie...that’s fukked up
Like literally he tried to fukking fix it!!!
urban.org/sites/default/…
And yes, I know they don’t care because of Bernie but this makes me so fukking mad because I’m a person who worked my ass off during the housing crisis only to see a bunch of people who didn’t do jack shyt act like knew how to fix everything.
I feel like I should say this - during the housing crisis, literally everyone was scrambling to figure out what was going on & what to do. Non-profits, local/state/fed govs, think tanks...literally everyone. It was a nightmare. Things were done hastily. Some worked. A lot didn’t.
The crisis was also exacerbated by the fact that different areas had different needs and federal programs are still programs that have rules and requirements and those requirements can be bureaucratic nightmares. Sometimes they just don’t work the way they were intended.
At the time, a lot of us on the ground were working with state/local/fed government to figure out the best way to address it and there were SO MANY PROGRAMS. Even as we worked the programs evolved, rules changed and/or were clarified. It was legitimately chaos.
To be very frank - a lot of these programs needed to be clarified and changed and amended. DASP was no exception. It was a program that was always meant to be a public/private partnership starter with good intentions that led to not great consequences. BUT THAT HAPPENED A LOT.
It didn’t happen b/c people were neoliberal shills - it happened b/c that was the chaotic nature of the housing crisis. Housing is STILL recovering from it in so many ways most of y’all don’t see. If you want to talk about it, let’s talk about it. BUT STOP fukkING LYING.
Anyway - I have to stop talking about this because it’s Sunday and I’m tired but this whole framing is disingenuous bullshyt and I’m not the kind of person that can shut up about things I do everyday.
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Buttigieg killed the sxsw/cnn townhall. 
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IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
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Buttigieg reviews....his attack on Pence was the highlight of the night.
Looks like he unleashed the flutes. I’ll have to take a watch
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Buttigeg’s Supreme Court idea is the best I’ve read.