Humans are drawn to narratives, but too many politicians struggle to use storytelling to find common ground.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/democrats-storytelling-connecting-with-voters/629681/
Category Archives: Dems
Coal Plant Won’t Pay Its Rent, but Can Pay Joe Manchin
A power plant that buys coal waste from a Manchin-owned company is 10 years behind on rent.
— Read on gizmodo.com/coal-plant-wont-pay-its-rent-but-can-pay-joe-manchin-1848548520
How Manchin used politics to protect his family coal company
Selling scrap coal has earned Sen. Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel from laws and regulations that threaten his family’s business.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/manchin-family-coal-company-00003218
Rights For All Americans, Que Novelle — The Biden administration is paying survivor’s benefits to victims of anti-gay discrimination.
Most would-be beneficiaries don’t even know they’re eligible.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/social-security-survivors-benefits-biden-marriage.html
Texas Dems print, distribute 500k voter registration cards
Texas once again made headlines as we learned that the State of Texas will only be providing very limited numbers of voter registration applications to the public, blaming paper shortages.
— Read on defendernetwork.com/news/local-state/texas-dems-launch-program-to-print-distribute-500k-voter-registration-/
Democrats Should Run on a Bold Anti-corruption Agenda
Being anti-corruption is a winning message.
— Read on newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61e85c9b199fdd00213c9ec8/democrats-should-run-on-a-bold-anti-corruption-agenda/
Dem On Paper Only — Corporate donations flowed into Joe Manchin’s PAC ahead of final “No” on BBB
Money from Goldman Sachs, Blue Shield and Lockheed poured into Manchin’s coffers as he worked to scuttle BBB
— Read on www.salon.com/2021/12/23/corporate-donations-flowed-into-joe-manchins-pac-ahead-of-final-no-on-bbb_partner/
Tl;dr, Because He’s A Toxic Corporate Puppet — Joe Manchin worries Biden’s social spending agenda costs too much, so why did he just vote for an infrastructure law that costs more?
Manchin says he’s worried about the deficit, but just voted for something more expensive than Build Back Better, the CBO says. He has no excuses left.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/joe-manchin-build-back-better-expensive-infrastructure-pricier-deficit-cbo-2021-11
One Of The Dem’s GOP Grifters — Sinema’s raking in cash from MLMs. They want to kill her party’s labor bill.
The Arizona senator is one of just a few lawmakers that multilevel marketing businesses —often derided as pyramid schemes — are giving to.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2021/11/05/kyrsten-sinema-multi-level-marketing-labor-519661
Democrats’ Betrayals Are Jeopardizing American Democracy
History is screaming at Democrats to both rescue the economy and save democracy from a meltdown. They’re doing the opposite
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/democrats-fdr-new-deal-financial-crisis-1248615/
Virginia Democrats sue USPS over delayed delivery of election-related material
The Virginia Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the US Postal Service on Friday, alleging local branches failed to deliver and process election-related material ahead of its high stakes gubernatorial race, thereby “threatening to disenfranchise thousands of Virginia voters.”
— Read on edition.cnn.com/2021/10/23/politics/virginia-democrats-postal-service-election-related-material-delays/
Biden’s clean electricity program is likely to be scrapped because of opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin, who has made millions off the fossil-fuel industry, reports say
The program, which would reward power companies that transition to renewable energy, could be removed from a bill because of Manchin.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/manchin-threatens-biden-clean-electricity-program-millions-fossil-fuel-industry-2021-10
Winemaking and marathon running: what Kyrsten Sinema does instead of her job
Sinema is one of two Democrat holdouts against passing Biden’s Build Back Better agenda – but hasn’t made public why. Here’s what she is public about
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/16/kyrsten-sinema-senate-biden-build-back-better
Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing.
— Read on apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-lifestyle-business-environment-1d8b5a0ff3814f78c5e8bc97c37fc32e
No Scare Quotes Needed — Kyrsten Sinema Has Made Herself Into ‘a Shame to Democrats’
Maybe there’s a principle other than mindless bipartisanship, but it’s awfully hard to find.
— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/kyrsten-sinema-has-made-herself-into-a-shame-to-democrats
You have to understand Senator Sinema has more important things to do than being a Senator
Manchin Demanded Bank Bailout Before Slamming “Entitlement Mentality”
On Thursday, coal-baron-turned-senator Joe Manchin threatened to kill his party’s climate, health care and anti-poverty legislation, telling reporters: “I cannot accept our economy, or basically our society, moving towards an entitlement mentality.”
— Read on www.dailyposter.com/manchin-bank-bailout/
In deep red West Virginia, Biden’s $3.5tn spending proposal is immensely popular
Working-class people – even Trump voters – understand the Build Back Better plan will benefit them
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/28/west-virginia-joe-biden-spending-plan-popular
It’s Time To Call Manchin’s Bluff
Reporting shows that Manchin makes a cool half million a year in his personal investment portfolio from fossil fuel industry. Not bad for a guy who is from a state that is dying on the vine from the death of the coal industry. Manchin has depended on fossil fuel industry donations to keep getting reelected. And this is the guy that the Democrats put in the chair of the Energy committee. And therein lies the problem.
— Read on politizoom.com/its-time-to-call-manchins-bluff/
Kyrsten Sinema Is Cashing in on Her Opposition to the Infrastructure Bill
Kyrsten Sinema Is Cashing in on Her Opposition to the Infrastructure Bill
— Read on jezebel.com/kyrsten-sinema-is-cashing-in-on-her-opposition-to-the-i-1847757080
The Political Rave and Drool 