A political organization co-founded by former staffers of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are taking aim at moderate Democrats in an attempt to clear the way for their far-left legislative goals.
The No Excuses PAC was founded by Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff for Ocasio-Cortez, and Corbin Trent, the former communications director for the socialist democrat, and Zack Exley, who also co-founded Justice Democrats with his two political partners.
One of the stated goals of No Excuses is to replace Democrats Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona with far-left progressives who will help push their agenda.
Manchin and Sinema are the Democratic holdouts who are keeping the legislative filibuster alive and preventing the Democratic caucus from passing legislation to which Republicans object.
“The only real way to pressure any of these folks and hold them accountable to their promises is to threaten their power, and threaten the seat that they hold and threaten their re-election,” Chakrabarti said to Politico.
“We sort of have this theory that the voters in Arizona and the voters in West Virginia would care more about action,” he added, “they care more about jobs and their community and money in their pockets than they do about an arcane Senate rule called the filibuster.”
Both Manchin and Sinema aren’t up for election until 2024, but the progressive plotters say it will take a lot of time to mount the right kind of challenge to defeat them.
“Finding and training good candidates takes time,” said Chakrabarti. “Doing that in two years when you already need a campaign started is very hard.”
Republicans were able to secure an agreement to keep the filibuster in the Senate through the machinations of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“I’m glad we’ve stepped back from this cliff,” said McConnell about the campaign to end the filibuster.
“Taking that plunge would not be some progressive dream, it would be a nightmare,” he added. “I guarantee it.”
Here’s more about the fight over the filibuster:
Schumer spins Senate filibuster defeat as a win over McConnell
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LMAO…they don’t need it. Drooling Joe is ruling with executive fiat. Congress can go home, and AOC can get back behind the bar sucking cocks, and stealing tips, like before.
Democratic infighting is the best chance Republicans have of taking back Congress, but the Republicans have to stop fighting among themselves first.
The No Excuses PAC will use money as leverage to get support for their candidates. Per the spokesperson, the voters in AZ and WV “…care more about jobs and their community and money in their pockets ” . No Excuses PAC will promise that their candidates will supply free “money in their pockets” to the voters in exchange for their votes. I hope that the voters are not so gullible to believe in free money.
I thought that paying for votes was illegal in this country.
It seems that the elected have forgotten that their job is to, in the case of house of Representatives, is represent the ideals and wishes of the population of their district. Not other districts,the rest of their state, or the rest of the US. This is where things have gotten out of hand. This is the reason we have the “right” to storm the Capitol and string them up. As for these unelected, off with their heads. They are nobody and we do not give them the authority to impress upon us their agenda and ideals. Fuck Them. !!!!
Any politician wanting to turn our country into a socialist country must be removed from office. To many of our men and women have died fighting communism. This must stop now!
Federal workers (on the lock) plotting political involvement, i
sn’t this against a federal law? Like, maybe, treason?