Great Night For Democrats–And Working Families Party
Let’s start with WFP. Despite (or perhaps in part because of) a crumbling Democratic machine in Philly:
Working Families Party candidates Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O’Rourke appeared to have won a pair of seats on Philadelphia City Council Tuesday, scoring an unprecedented victory for progressives and ousting Republicans from seats they’d held for more than 70 years.
“Together we have left the Republican party to the dustbin of history. The Working Families Party is here to stay,” O’Rourke said in remarks to a raucous crowd gathered at the Roar Nightclub in Fishtown. “Philadelphia said loudly that we do not want or need any more Republican representation, and I could not agree with y’all more.”
Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, said on stage: “Philadelphia is now a two-party town: Democrats and the Working Families Party.”
People like what WFP candidates stand for, and nobody outworks WFP on the grassroots level. I also think people resented the heavy-handed tactics of Bob Brady and his henchmen. Message to anti-progressive D’s: Adapt or die. Or retire. WFP already has heavily impacted Delaware politics, especially at the legislative level. 2024 could well be their (and our) best year yet. Stay tuned.
Democrats’ sweeping victories amounted to a sharp setback for Youngkin as he seeks to raise his national profile as a potential last-minute presidential contender and seemed to fit with a national trend that saw Democrats rally around the issue of protecting abortion rights.
Abortion rights and legalized pot win in Ohio. This is what Rethug overreach looks like:
Abortion opponents had a simple plea in the final weeks of the election: Vote against Issue 1, and we’ll come up with a moderate, reasonable alternative.
But it was too late. Ohio’s GOP-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine had already shown their cards by banning most abortions in 2019 and attempting to ban abortion at conception in 2022.
On the day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Ohio’s abortion policy was no longer hypothetical. The worst-case scenarios that doctors had warned about in committee rooms were playing out in national headlines. A 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio was taken to Indiana for an abortion. Doctors were worried about losing their licenses or facing incarceration. An abortion clinic nearly closed.
D’s Sweep Pa., including winning that State Supreme Court seat.
I’ll admit it–I was concerned that the lack of enthusiasm for Biden among Democratic voters would lead to a less-than-stellar performance last night.
I was wrong.
not to be lost in the good news is the fantastic news that the Truly crazy “Moms for Liberty’ got smoked to school Board races in 5 states!
https://www.alternet.org/moms-for-liberty-loses/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nov.8.2023_2.15pm
The Biden panic might be driven by the fact that nobody is enthusiastic about him, which people fear means low turnout. I think Ohio shows that voters are being driven not by positive feelings about Democrats but by negative feelings about Republicans.
A lot of Republican voters are of the “you’re not the boss of me” school, and that attitude holds toward anyone trying to place restrictions on them, whether it’s over guns or abortion.
Dear Republicans,
Please keep being the party of Trump, guns and the Bible. That’s going great!
I think the Rethugs caught the car with the Dobbs decision, then got run over.
Cherelle Parker broke the glass ceiling in Philly last night and that shouldn’t be lost! She was an amazing candidate, and modeled the way that democrats nationally should be talking about crime.
There is a sad reality in Philadelphia that Mayor-elect Parker cannot ignore. Unless there is some major capitulation by the current District Attorney, Larry Krasner, Ms. Parker will be unable to implement her “tough-on-crime” agenda.
I agree that Parker was the best candidate, but her words are just that… in her 2022 OpEd, which she ran on, she pledged “300 more police officers.”
That statement is a joke. The Philadelphia Police force is SHORT 1200 Officers. SHORT…as in…they need 1200 to be whole. Even this august blog sees through the statement.
But keep voting Democrat…73 years straight in Philly.
Is that where you want Delaware? Oh…wait…
This comment is the reaction you get any time you try to hold trigger-happy police accountable.
“Unless there is some major capitulation by the current District Attorney, Larry Krasner,”
Capitulation on what?
Mr. Krasner refuses to charge or even prosecute alleged perpetrators of dozens of criminal laws. He has singlehandedly chosen, with the swipe of a pen using “Prosecutorial Discretion,” to not prosecute Crimes, defined as such, in Statute.
That is not the role of a DA.
Sure it is. Prosecutors make decisions every day on which crimes to prosecute and which to drop. Krasner is not prosecuting low-level drug offenses.
Want crime to drop? Eliminate the black market for drugs. Stop pretending the “drug war” is something other than race/class warfare.