COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS

[Hassin Bin Sober]

This story is about a local chapter taking sides in a primary.

Homophobia rears its ugly head in a primary race.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/

COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS

“This will sink his campaign,” predicted a College Democrat leader hoping to work for Rep. Richard Neal.

THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the school’s student newspaper.

College Democrat at Center of Attack on Alex Morse Hoped to Launch Career Through Richard Neal
The letter, sent three weeks before his primary challenge to Rep. Richard Neal, informed Morse that he was no longer welcome at College Democratic events, alleging he used such opportunities to socialize with students and later connect with them on social media in ways that made them feel uncomfortable. Message logs obtained by the Intercept — both from leaders of the College Democrats UMass Amherst chapter group as well as chats one of them had with Morse — shed new light on how this purported scandal was deployed. As a condition of obtaining the logs, The Intercept agreed to publish some of the chats and paraphrase others.

On Wednesday, following a statement by Morse, the statewide College Democrats chapter clarified that he had in fact only attended a single event during the course of his campaign. It was after that event in October 2019 that the leadership of the UMass Amherst chapter began to talk about leaking a story damaging to Morse, according to those online communications. THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the school’s student newspaper.

Timothy Ennis, the chief strategist for the UMass Amherst College Democrats, admitted in the chats that he was a “Neal Stan” and said he felt conflicted about involving the chapter of the College Democrats in a future attack on Morse. “But I need a job,” concluded Ennis. “Neal will give me an internship.” At the time, Ennis was president of the chapter, a post he held from April 2019 to April 2020, when he was term-limited out.

Leaders of the College Democrats group went beyond merely plans to leak. They also explicitly discussed how they could find Morse’s dating profiles and then lead him into saying something incriminating that would then damage his campaign.

[Budi]

2. OMG! WHO GAVE THEM THE TARA READE PLAYBOOK!!

WHO WAS IT!!???

🤔

[bluedye33139]

3. Ugh. This is not acceptable.

And it all seems to be falling apart.

I think they have a debate this weekend, and even though I live on the West coast, I might try to watch.

[sdfernando]

4. These people don't sound like Democrats to me.

right out of the Karl Rove playbook. Seems the college dems have been infiltrated by rethugs.

[cloudythescribbler]

5. THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR PROGRESSIVES -- not just in this case in my district

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/alex-morse-neal-massachusetts-sex-panic?fbclid=IwAR25ZXRPYQWavkpsIgmauSmvRTvGs0bARCVK0MUuahvucyQNDtWXzPpsCXQ

this discusses the vulnerability of progressives in politics to being played easily by this "#MeToo" style pseudo-scandal. And it hasn't just occurred in a gay context (think of how the leading Congressional advocate of net neutrality in Congress was brought down w/dubious claims, and NO ADVOCATE of his scope has emerged to replace Al Franken in the intervening years!). The way Woody Allen has been smeared -- w/extremely damaging effects is another case (here the charges were very severe and bogus). But what is in common is the obvious exploitation of the issue and the lack of discernment or social control mechanism for distinguishing the valid serious concerns from the rank exploitation of concern.

It wd have made a HUGE difference in the politics of my Congressional District if a progressive were to defeat powerful Rep Neal in the Democratic primary (which is basically the election in deep blue MA). This is a severe loss -- and even if 90% dismiss the issue (higher than probable), the remaining who swallow it, or figure (like another poster on DU on another thread on this case said they would) that, when in doubt, don't back the accused for office, like Caesar's wife -- progressive politics has been and continues to be severely hurt by this weakness

we need to "cancel" the abusers of cancel culture dynamics (something I find deeply dubious to start w/) -- and do much more to counter its effects. the strength of pushback where there ought to be POWERFUL, EFFECTIVE pushback, is too weak by several orders of magnitude

[Sympthsical]

6. They colluded to create a gay honeypot

It’s a novel approach, I’ll give them that. None of those texts are incriminating in the least - I know, I’ve been on those apps.

And his Tinder profile has to be the tamest thing I’ve ever seen.

It’s like the two gay students thought he’d invite them to a bathhouse or something.

Also 29 vs 22 years old isn’t particularly scandalous. Especially not in the gay world.

Something should be done about the students for this. Kicked out of the club, at the very least. Maybe some form of academic sanction.

[George II]

7. The Intercept? "Democrat Chat"?

[Roland99]

8. Isn't that where Glenn, Taibbi and Ryan all work?

And what’s her name. The one with the pathetic article re: Tara reade

[George II]

9. Yes. And "Democrat" as in "Democrat Chat" used in the article is right wing terminology.

[GeorgiaPeanut]

10. The Intercept ... bwaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha