MI-12: Rashida Tlaib Gets a Primary Challenger

[RandySF]

Former Michigan state Rep. Shanelle Jackson (D) told Jewish Insider that she intends to challenge Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) in the open-seat Democratic House primary for the newly drawn 12th Congressional District.



https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/14/rashida-tlaib-gets-a-primary-challenger/

[oasis]

1. But..but Rashida publicly apologized for disrespecting Hillary Clinton.

[RandySF]

2. New districts attract new blood.

[oasis]

3. I'm looking forward to a lively contest. Rahida's got fire aplenty. nt

[George II]

13. She apologized on Twitter, a medium that relatively few voters actually read.

[Budi]

4. Good. I'll send a donation.

Will be watching for Shanelle Jackson's official campaign link.
Thanks

"Democratic primary challenger blasts Rashida Tlaib for ‘antisemitic rhetoric’"


Enough is enough.

[leftstreet]

5. What's wrong with Tlaib?

I mean, I don't live there, but what's she done wrong?

[Budi]

6. Just for starters.

Democratic primary challenger blasts Rashida Tlaib for ‘antisemitic rhetoric’

We'll just leave it at this for now.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. MI-12 contains the city of Southfield, home to significant Jewish communities.

I'm sure any of Tlaib's opponents will try to exploit any anti-semetic comments she's made.

It'll be an interesting primary. I think the general election will be a shoo-in for the Dem.

[lapucelle]

12. She's sponsoring a bill that would abolish federal prisons.

https://www.axios.com/white-house-rashida-tlaib-prison-abolition-9a75f2d2-65cb-4c2d-bf86-e2a4ab81ceab.html

[Hortensis]

30. Huh? Why on earth federal? The vast majority of prisoners are

in state prisons and local jails, and for sure the bad conditions and abuses are overwhelmingly state and local. There can't be many in state prisons who wouldn't be glad to transfer to federal conditions if they only could. Including Michigan's own; there are plenty of problems at home to deal with.

But, where would those convicted and sentenced for breaking federal laws be incarcerated? I have trouble believing this is a serious proposal. She may just be throwing anti-establishment propaganda to her "grassroots" donors.

[lapucelle]

35. Rep. Tlaib supports BREATHE Act, includes defunding police, reparations, universal basic income"

From Tlaib's official website:

Detroit Metro Times: Rep. Tlaib supports BREATHE Act, includes defunding police, reparations, universal basic income

Two members of "the Squad" have thrown their support behind wide-ranging legislation that would address many of the demands of the massive nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that followed the death of George Floyd under Minneapolis police.

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The bill is broken into four sections. The first calls for divesting from police agencies like the DEA and ICE, banning surveillance technology, ending civil asset forfeiture, ending life sentences and mandatory minimum sentences, closing federal prisons, and decriminalizing and retroactively expunging both state and federal drug offenses, among others.

The second section calls for incentives for states to shrink or close detention facilities, removing police from schools, abolishing police gang databases, eliminating court fees and forgiving all court debts, repealing all juvenile offenses, and creating new intervention programs that would send specialists other than police to respond to 911 calls, among others.

The third section calls for social equity in communities, including equitable funding for all schools, closing youth detention centers, developing school curricula critical of colonialism, more wraparound services for students, promoting environmental justice, providing safe access to water, creating pilot programs for universal basic income, providing access to education for undocumented immigrants, and modernizing all public schools, among others.

The fourth section calls for reparations for those incarcerated including enfranchisement to vote, creating a public financing program for campaigns powered by small dollar contributions, incentivizing states to increase voter turnout, allowing undocumented immigrants to vote in local and state elections, and holding officials and police officers accountable, among others.

https://tlaib.house.gov/media/in-the-news/detroit-metro-times-rep-tlaib-supports-breathe-act-includes-defunding-police

[Hortensis]

42. Thanks, Lapucelle. What a grab bag. So many things that

should and can be done if we have the power, and thus are on Democrats' to-do list, tied up with others that cannot and will not be, or at very least not at the same time. For the sake of those who send her money and presumably believe in some of these goals, I hope this is at least about more than an excuse for voting against Democratic reform packages.

Oh, well. I was happy to see the Bureau of Prisons is about to get a new, Biden-appointed director to work on the reforms Biden campaigned for.

[George II]

14. She has voted a number of times against the Democratic and Biden positions on issues/bills.

[Journeyman]

7. She already has a page up . . .

https://shanelle.us

[Budi]

8. Thank You! Appreciate the link. Tho its from her 2018 campaign, willl ck for updates.

On my way...
I see Tlaib's district was recently redone.

[Cha]

17. Oh wow.. Nice Photo!

[George II]

22. Want to see a nice photo:

[Cha]

26. Mahalo! 😊 I had just seen this

tweet down thread posted by LMPV..

Link to tweet

[joshcryer]

27. Love it, but she faces an uphill battle against Tlaib.

Brenda Jones primaried her in 2020 and lost to Tlaib 66%-34%.

[George II]

29. Perhaps not in this new district.

[joshcryer]

33. Does the new district have a smaller Muslim population?

Tlaib got a boost from that population in her old district.

[George II]

36. I don't think anyone has done an analysis of the demographics of the district yet.

[RandySF]

32. Jones contracted COVID during the primary.

And, even before then, barely campaigned or raised money.

[George II]

37. Brenda Jones lost by less than 1% in the 2018 primary (900 votes), while at the same time....

....campaigning for the seat outright in the special election on the very same day.

She won that special election over the republican 87% to 9%.

It's really not a valid comparison to make since Jones was on two ballots the same day.

[George II]

38. Brenda Jones lost by less than 1% in the 2018 primary (900 votes), while at the same time....

....campaigning for the seat outright in the special election on the very same day. She won that special election over the republican 87% to 9%.

At the time little was known about Tlaib.

It's really not a valid comparison to make since Jones was on two ballots the same day.

[Cha]

16. Have you seen these tweets

posted by LMPV?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16246950

[Klaralven]

9. There are over 750,000 people in each district. Must be dozens better than the current incumbents.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. This will be an interesting primary contest

Link to tweet

[Cha]

15. Rt TY.. I like her already.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. I am wondering when I will get an email from the Justice Democrat group

These emails are always fun to laugh at. This group is going to be attacking everyone due to this primary

[Cha]

20. You have a Strong

Stomach!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. I love it when the Justice Democrats call me and the rest of the party names

The Justice Democrats are really not true members of the party and want to destroy and remake the party in their own image. I love it when they call me a "corporate democrat" and tell me that they need my money to remake the party into their own image

I am glad that one of their members is being primaried. I also loved it when Nina Turner was primaried last year.

[Cha]

24. I have some descriptive

names for them that I won't go into right now.

Yeah, Ohio 11 was Seriously NOT messing around.

[Nixie]

40. Plus a million. I'm grateful you have the stomach for

dealing with their anti propaganda. Your reports on their current underhandedness is much appreciated.

[betsuni]

34. Email will be repetition of "corporate Democrats"/corporate-funded Democratic Establishment/

status quo corporate Democrats/Wall Street/Big Pharma/Big Oil/corporate PACs/billionaires/corporate/corporate/corporate. Key word is "corporate."

Corruption! The bad status quo neoliberal corporate Democrats will stop at nothing to thwart Justice Democrats, the only moral, pure, uncorrupted grassroots transformative nice people who want the nice progressive things for America! In solidarity, please give us three dollars to take over the very very bad corporate status quo Democratic Establishment.

Does anybody still fall for that? It's hilarious.

[Nixie]

39. +1

Exactly.

[tritsofme]

11. Good luck Shanelle! She sounds like a great candidate!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. I am looking forward to this primary

Link to tweet

[Cha]

25. Rt TY.. Looks like Shanele would

be in Congress to help Pres Biden!

[betsuni]

31. K&R

[Nixie]

41. I'm a Shanelle fan already.

She has a great background!