*Briahna Joy Gray* looking mad grifterish

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Marianne is great, she's just way too much of an idealist and would never get any votes.
Her campaign sounds like a mess and some of the rumors are grifterish. She dropped a pair of campaign managers in quick succession and there was this news about her campaign's lack of effort getting onto ballots...


Hours after Marianne Williamson announced the hiring of her third campaign manager in five months, six staffers left her team through a round of firings and resignations.

The departures came primarily over a fight about Williamson’s ballot access operations, or lack thereof.

The campaign’s entire three-person South Carolina operation, which had been led by Marcurius Byrd, resigned, according to four people with knowledge of the campaign’s operations and team discussions, granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. In addition, Carlos Cardona, who was recently promoted to head the campaign after serving as New Hampshire state director, fired two national field directors and a member of Williamson’s New Hampshire team, according to those same people.

One of the four, who is a current staffer, attributed the changes to Cardona “stepping in as a new campaign manager and just his approach to reorganizing and restructuring the campaign to be cash efficient but also incredibly nimble on the ground in key primary states.” But three other people said the staff departures were connected to a previous staff meeting where Williamson was confronted by aides about her campaign priorities.

The staffers said they were concerned that too much attention was being placed on social media and not enough on getting Williamson’s name on the ballot beyond New Hampshire and South Carolina. Each state has their own laws and requirements, and typically expert consultants are hired to handle the specifics to get a candidate on the ballot.


“During that meeting, there was just a vibe that she felt attacked, and an insinuation at the end of that call that some staff were not going to make it to the end of the week,” said one person with knowledge of the campaign’s deliberations.

After the staff meeting, Williamson told staffers that she felt “ambushed” by her own team, two of the four people (including another current staffer) told POLITICO, adding that she hasn’t acted on their concerns about ballot access.

“She didn’t listen to anything that was said,” one of those people said. “Clearly, because the people who expressed frustration were fired.”

Williamson’s campaign faces a number of hurdles beyond ballot access. The Democratic National Committee has decided not to host debates with President Joe Biden’s primary challengers. In addition, there has been consistent staff turnover, including several campaign managers, coupled with money worries as the campaign lags behind her fellow Democratic primary opponents. Two of the four people told POLITICO that Williamson is likely to report less than $1 million in donations on her next quarterly financial report.

Cardona did not respond to a request for comment, and the campaign declined to speak on the record to questions about the most recent departures and the staff meeting on ballot access. A spokesperson, on condition of anonymity, questioned the relevance of them.

“You would think the journalistic focus of the Marianne Williamson campaign would be about her gains in polling, landing key political endorsements and attracting new supporters, but no, we’re once again responding to internal staffing decisions being made to strengthen our position in this presidential primary race,” the spokesperson said. “Every campaign or company will adjust on strategy, and face tough staffing decisions to become more efficient with resources.”

Williamson registered significant early support, polling at about 10 percent in surveys. But there haven’t been many gains since her launch. The team is now operating with a skeletal staff of about 12 people as Williamson increases her campaign events.

Despite the firings, there has been at least one new hire: an events coordinator, who formerly worked on marketing for Williamson’s business office, according to two of the four people. Williamson, incidentally, has a new book coming out at the end of the summer.

“If you’re just thinking about New Hampshire and South Carolina, then this is a grift,”
one of the people said.

I think she's grifting to sell books tbh.
 
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Her campaign sounds like a mess and some of the rumors are grifterish. She dropped a pair of campaign managers in quick succession and there was this news about her campaign's lack of effort getting onto ballots...




I think she's grifting to sell books tbh.
Possibly, but in my eyes and I can't believe I'm saying this I see Cornell West as more of a grifter because he's in bed with known grifter Jill Stein. Either way neither of them are a threat to Biden.
 

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Possibly, but in my eyes and I can't believe I'm saying this I see Cornell West as more of a grifter because he's in bed with known grifter Jill Stein. Either way neither of them are a threat to Biden.
Fair enough, I wouldn't really pit them against each other because I don't think either candidate is running with serious interest in winning. A lack of effort or interest in ballot access is a dead giveaway, and West had to pivot to the greens because Nick Brana never made any attempts to get ballot access. Williamson apparently has only put the effort in for a handful of states.

So, I just take both campaigns with a grain of salt. I feel like they'd have been setting up headquarters and plans way sooner if they were serious; and I also think both campaigns only serve to siphon off donations that would be better served going to progressives in local races up through congressional ones.

West and Williamson aren't likely to make a dent or move Biden any direction. But efforts that add even a few more progressives would help empower the whole caucus to press for more in big policy negotiations.
 

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Must of looked at some data and been like “untapped demographics hmm”



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I wanna remind people she came out first as some class reductionist Bernie bro talking about how it’s ok if she’s called the N word if white peoples can help her get Medicare for all
 

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She’s wants dems to lose by small margins based on one demographic.

For almost a decade it was young White voters who would only be activated by progressive policy.

Now, it’s let’s suppress the black male vote.

The irony is that she’s doing everything to stay relevant that she and her of supports claimed to rail against.
 

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She’s wants dems to lose by small margins based on one demographic.

For almost a decade it was young White voters who would only be activated by progressive policy.

Now, it’s let’s suppress the black male vote.

The irony is that she’s doing everything to stay relevant that she and her of supports claimed to rail against.
The entire Bernie wing wants Dems to lose to prove their point. The fact democrats keep winning disproves their entire premise. It’s worse than accelerationism
 
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