Pelosi: if you don't endorse Feinstein (who's unable to recognize long time colleagues & forgets conversations & fundamentals of the job) continuing to stand in the way of Democratic judicial appointments indefinitely, it's obviously because you're sexist.
Meanwhile, 2/3 of the candidates for Feinstein's open Senate seat in 2024 are women - and Pelosi tripped over her own feet to endorse the only man in the race.
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Her claim that declining male Sens arenāt pressured to retire is also false (as she knows). Thurmond, Kennedy & Byrd all got publicly called on during their terms to resign, on the grounds that their physical &/or mental decline made them unable to fully rep constituents.
Their parties had to sacrifice the good of those constituents to keep a majority. We donāt need to.
Pelosi demands needless sacrifice not just by 40 m Californians, but also by all women, whose rights GOP judges are stealing.
Barbara Lee ānot clearly in a safe districtā? Sheās in the safest district in America. Itās 90% Democratic. You might want to rethink the reliability of whoever is spreading that talking point around.
Nancy Pelosi is playing 1-D chess with her position on Feinstein. It sacrifices all us womenās basic rights to defend one womanās ego. You clearly did not read the SF Chronicleās pieces in 2022 or Jane Mayerās piece, sourced from Feinsteinās Senate colleagues and staffers.
@stargazersmith
Only very naive, very stupid, or very dishonest people would suggest that Republicans will help Democrats put anyone on the Judiciary Committee who would actually help us appoint judges.
To get a new & reliable vote for our judicial reforms (including, by the way, impeaching Clarence Thomas for his decades of corruption revealed this week), Feinstein has to retire. If not, Schumer will require 60 votes or *unanimity* to replace her.
Oh what a surprise: https://www.memeorandum.com/230415/p41#a230415p41
Barbara Lee announced she was running for the seat the day after Porter did - two weeks before Schiff did.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/11/barbara-lee-california-senate-00077482
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Ouch, you hurt my arm.
I didn't know that, but I know there was much hand wringing about whether Pelosi would endorse Porter or Schiff, and I read that likely she chose Schiff because a Democrat running after him had a good chance of holding his seat. But Porter, a strong candidate, was just holding onto her seat, a new candidate may not.
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Like I said, you may want to be a bit more skeptical of that source, whatever it was. It's a particular spin that doesn't represent the full picture. Appreciate you having a sense of humor about this one though.
She announced that she was going to time her official launch to coincide with Black History month (February). Pelosi rushed to trample over her announcement with her Schiff endorsement on Feb 2. Very disrespectful to the highest ranking Black woman in the House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/barbara-lee-senate-california-2024/
I'm in Lee's district and once presented a constituent issue to them. One guy came out to meet me in heavily secured conference room. He sat down and opened a folder that was ostensibly the file for the issue I was there to discuss. One piece of paper was in it. My letter to their office. It was clear he hadn't even read it. They made no follow up afterward. Zilch.
It's a data point of one, but my sense of her office is they're not very effective or proactive. She's merely been an entrenched congressperson who's accomplished little on behalf of her district.
I think Schiff is a more effective legislator and would do a better job with Feinstein's seat.
@sashafox @skroobler @chargrille
Well kids enjoy the Bernie SCOTUS, because you brought it. Funny how his fan club mentions heās Jewish more than Bernie ever has in his 35 years of doing nothing progressive. Donāt worry, if youāre white you should be fine with the christofscists. I predict you boys will embrace it by 2030.
Gavin Newsom has promised to appoint a Black woman to CA's second Senate seat. Barbara Lee is the other woman in the race you didn't mention. She sits in the safest Democratic seat in Congress.
There are few women & few African Americans in Congress. After Newsom replaced Sen. Kamala Harris with Alex Padillo, California - the most diverse state in the nation & which until recently had 2 female Senators - having 2 men appointed by a white male gov. is not a good idea.
@chargrille Schiff is also the one candidate who hasn't signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, and dodged when I asked him about it a few weeks ago.
Either Porter or Lee is preferable to anybody who cares about climate.
https://nofossilfuelmoney.org/congressional-signers/
#ClimateAction #USPolitics #ClimateCrisis #NoFossilFuelMoney
Thank you for pointing this out. I was not aware that Schiff hasn't signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.
This is a firm no-go for me in terms of support. #ClimateAction is my kid's, and our children's, whole future.
@chargrille @dsacer Question though: Rep. Huffman is a big pro-environment guy, and I think he's on Team Schiff? So I wonder if there's more to Schiff's environment record than just this?
(I say this with no particular affinity for Schiff - I prefer Porter or Lee anyway - but I do respect Huffman, and he's genuinely strong on environment issues.)
@cathygellis @chargrille The differences between them are going to be fairly modest - they're all Democrats. Funding is definitely an issue though, and Schiff's willingness to take oil industry money is going to put him a lot closer to the line than the other Democrats running for Senate.
If you want to dig into their vote history, it's here:
https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/adam-b-schiff
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