Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.
The congressional black caucus and party leadership has spent more than a decade setting him up for the job, deliberately pulling strings to ensure he was in the room with the right people. He was picked as a freshman to be a future speaker, they aren’t going to go with an alternative due to the sunk cost fallacy.
From the article: “Roughly 40 Democrats would need to vote for someone else in order to prevent Jeffries from taking the gavel.”
From another article: “Democrats have now flipped over 40 House seats.”
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Yeah but how many will hold their vote against Jeffries? You count AOC out, can’t believe she even thinking of running for president. She has no spin and sadly not the squad she once was.
Republican tactics don’t look good on democrats.
All traitors
Get rid of the bully’s position of power or accept you will never be free of his demands and retaliation.
Fix it. Or allow it to continue.
That’s their option.
It is a good sign that a newcomer is broadcasting how the sausage is made rather than falling into line. I hope all these newly elected dems support each other and hold the line against the establishment.
Not going happen. Just like how AOC fell in line her first year. She once changed her vote after the cunt Nancy had a strong word with her.
You may be right, but this time could also be different. There’s a whole crop of energetic newcomers who seem to understand that people are tired of the same old bullshit. I wouldn’t bet the farm on it going either, but there’s no harm in hoping.
Leonard, who flipped Ohio’s heavily Republican 15th Congressional District blue last Tuesday, said he told senior party leaders that, to win his support, Jeffries would have to meet with him and his constituents to discuss two priorities. One was a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the 2010 US Supreme Court ruling that struck down restrictions on independent election spending by corporations and unions. The other was ending “US support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
In a video covered by Drop Site News, Leonard said the unnamed party leaders he met with responded with threats that felt like “the stuff you see in the movies.”
Names.
I want to know the names of these fucking people who have sold out their constituents.
Fucking knew it! Leeja Miller did a video on how the leader are chosen, and when mention it behind close doors. I straight up left comment saying that bet it not a vote, but this who we are running deal with it. Democrats are not fucking Democratic at all when comes to who leads the party.
Dear NYC DSA, it’s time to primary Jeffries.
He was elected this year. His primary opponent dropped out after a DSA internal vote. He’s starting a whole new term.
At present, the only person who could possibly pull that off is Mamdani, if he wants it.
Which, if we got Mamdani ousting Jeffries and AOC ousting Schumer in 2028, that would be massive.
Depends which tree Mamdani wants to scale from here — Federal, or State (his journey ending with Governor and no further). Alternatively, he could choose to eye Gilibrand’s Senate seat. Nice bit of redemption for how she snubbed him too.
All the more reason to not support Jeffries.
Lean over and whisper in their ear, “the people are coming. Fuck you.”
Then bite off the lobe.
Congress needs an enema. And an expansion. And the abolishment of the senate. And proportional representation with STAR (or similar) voting. One step at a time, I suppose. Do the good thing, Congressman; fuck what the others think.
For real, I agree, and voting in DNC to remove the GOP was definitely a step in the correct direction.
He should expose them ao people do not vote for them next time
For speaker yes
for primary yes
for general no if he wins again like this year then we need him to win the general next time as well.
I disagree. If there is such a strong dem majority in the house, then fuck it, let the GOP have Jeffries’ seat. If they refuse to listen to us saying to not make him speaker this time, then let’s make him unemployed next election. He’s a greedy coward and he needs to either step to the side or fuck off for good.
Fuck that. Expose and vilify every piece of shit you can. I had almost no faith that our elections weren’t compromised in a severe way. These results gave me hope and I’m a pessimistic piece of shit. We need to be loud. Name, shame, expose, get them the fuck out, investigated, and convicted. Sick of the “if you suck me I won’t fuck you” game. No. No more. Pedophiles out, investigated, mulched. AIPAC and all supporters the fuck out. Citizens United eliminated. That’s just to start.
They’re gonna make it very very obvious who they are in the next 2-4 years.
AIPAC is already making it obvious.
100% this
I would invite them all to a meeting to discuss that topic and ask them to repeat any threats in person, and then I would laugh loudly in their faces like maniac
You don’t understand the power the Democratic leadership have. They literally can make these new members life hell and have no problem telling them so on fucking house floor. We need to get rid of the leadership of the DNC. And fuck these unnamed shit. He needs to name and shame and we should be protesting at their offices and homes.
Invite them all to the Red Wedding.
Let the seven sort them out.
