I was dismayed to read that the DCCC had intentionally ignored the TX 06 race. Thanks for the heads up. I tried to tell the DCCC how disappointed I was via their comment page, but their submit button did not work. I guess I'll have to write them via postal mail -- if that is working these days.
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After reading about the DCCC ignoring the TX 06 race I was furious!!! Why the hell am I even sending my hard earned money to them if they are going to give up anything without a fight! What gives them the right to concede anything to the GOP in this climate! As usual, Dems bring knives to a gunfight--if they bring anything at all--and we watch democracy being conceded because DCCC doesn't "feel like " I'm so damned sick of this attitude.
I couldn't agree more that it was inexcusable for the DCCC to sit out a race like the Texas 6th. But I wonder.....maybe the DCCC and the Texas Democratic Party thought things were too politically fraught to get into the fray? Looking at the top 4 Dem vote getters (there were 10 in the race) you had a Latinex candidate, Sanchez, running against an African American woman, Lassiter, running against Allison, another African American woman, running against Bean, a White woman with strong organized labor backing. A courageous state Democratic chair, like we have in Washington State, would have called the leading Democratic candidates into the room and said something like "We need to go into this united behind a single candidate--otherwise we lose. We'll throw every bit of political firepower--and our money plus support from the DCCC and National Democratic Party--we have behind one of you. We're not leaving until we decide who that will be." Call that a "smoke-filled room" but Democrats pulled off what they often do--created a circular firing squad. Sanchez lost the race to the Republican in the #2 spot by just 84 votes! Lassiter received 6,964 votes; Tammy Allison 4,238; Lydia Bean 2,920. Obviously, if just one of these candidates had thrown support toward Sanchez, she would be in the general. It would be interesting to get someone who actually knows Texas politics to comment (I know nothing), but we have seen this kind of thing play out many times. Robert, you encouraged us to give money to either of the top two candidates. All well and good as far as encouraging Democratic turnout, but it wasn't enough.
I was dismayed to read that the DCCC had intentionally ignored the TX 06 race. Thanks for the heads up. I tried to tell the DCCC how disappointed I was via their comment page, but their submit button did not work. I guess I'll have to write them via postal mail -- if that is working these days.
Maybe the DCCC should be looking for a new Chair.
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After reading about the DCCC ignoring the TX 06 race I was furious!!! Why the hell am I even sending my hard earned money to them if they are going to give up anything without a fight! What gives them the right to concede anything to the GOP in this climate! As usual, Dems bring knives to a gunfight--if they bring anything at all--and we watch democracy being conceded because DCCC doesn't "feel like " I'm so damned sick of this attitude.
I couldn't agree more that it was inexcusable for the DCCC to sit out a race like the Texas 6th. But I wonder.....maybe the DCCC and the Texas Democratic Party thought things were too politically fraught to get into the fray? Looking at the top 4 Dem vote getters (there were 10 in the race) you had a Latinex candidate, Sanchez, running against an African American woman, Lassiter, running against Allison, another African American woman, running against Bean, a White woman with strong organized labor backing. A courageous state Democratic chair, like we have in Washington State, would have called the leading Democratic candidates into the room and said something like "We need to go into this united behind a single candidate--otherwise we lose. We'll throw every bit of political firepower--and our money plus support from the DCCC and National Democratic Party--we have behind one of you. We're not leaving until we decide who that will be." Call that a "smoke-filled room" but Democrats pulled off what they often do--created a circular firing squad. Sanchez lost the race to the Republican in the #2 spot by just 84 votes! Lassiter received 6,964 votes; Tammy Allison 4,238; Lydia Bean 2,920. Obviously, if just one of these candidates had thrown support toward Sanchez, she would be in the general. It would be interesting to get someone who actually knows Texas politics to comment (I know nothing), but we have seen this kind of thing play out many times. Robert, you encouraged us to give money to either of the top two candidates. All well and good as far as encouraging Democratic turnout, but it wasn't enough.