Opinion piece from LA Times regarding DCCC rules

[tiredtoo]

Recommended reading for all here.
quote:
“Had the rules put in place last month by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee been in place then, the consultants who’d helped that young senator would have been blacklisted by the party, and that young senator — Barack Obama — would have had the political mark of Cain (a failed Cain, at that) branded on him by the Democratic House.”

Link to story
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-democrats-blacklist-primary-challengers-20190412-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZVoQYb2ukS4T_nZWJzm1r2YlMz2-tHiVgKY5D7KNcP1RwJYDSKekRpY8
Something to think about.

[George II]

1. What is the context of that quote. The LA Times is a pay site.

[tiredtoo]

3. i can give you a preceding paragraph. I can get on site without paying

Do not want to provide too much as it is against the rules either here or copyright rules.
"In the fall of 1999, a young Democratic state senator from the South Side of Chicago decided to take on the area’s longtime congressman, Bobby Rush, in the following year’s Democratic primary. Convinced he had something new and fresh to offer voters, and encouraged by his political consigliere Dan Shomon, the senator nonetheless received numerous warnings from more established pols that he had embarked on a fool’s errand — and sure enough, when the primary rolled around, he lost decisively."

[no2trump]

2. A party closed to new blood dies

A party closed to new blood dies because it is left behind by time.