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Mar 5, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
A thread on Democrats who pretended to support minimum wage increases when they knew it had no chance of passing but voted against it today because it could have:

1.) Senator Tom Carper

Up for re-election: 2024 2.) Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

Up for re-election: 2026

From 2014, when he cosponsored a bill for $10.10/hr tied to inflation:
Jan 12, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Bernie Sanders volunteer hits back:

Here’s what actually happened. A random user who’s only ever posted once before posted that document in the Sanders volunteer Slack group. A moderator promptly removed it and stated that it was NOT a campaign source. Bernie is not sending his volunteers out to trash ANY candidate. We have a very strict code of conduct on how we MUST interact with voters if we want to be part of the campaign. @Politico and every other outlet reporting on this non-story are being used incredibly irresponsible.
Nov 9, 2019 9 tweets 2 min read
Warren supporters always go to her CFPB accomplishments as a reason to support her. The CFPB has been rendered useless by the Trump Administration. So, what good is her technocratic approach if it can be so easily dismantled by the next administration? 1/9 There’s a huge groundswell of public support around the ACA that has prevented Republicans from abolishing it completely but that’s not going to last long. We all want change but if we want it to last we have to start addressing the power structures that prevent progress. 2/9
Oct 12, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
Quick thread on @TYT:

Ashlee Marie Preston and TYT finally come clean about Ashlee being a Warren campaign surrogate. For some reason, TYT still has her co-hosting despite not disclosing this earlier.

FTR, I'm completely fine with having campaign surrogates occasionally... ...to discuss and even advocate for their candidate's concerns or other related topics. But Ashlee is hired to co-host entire episodes and has repeatedly shifted the conversation to Warren and away from the topic of the segment, as evidenced here on this one about Bernie.