 This story perhaps more so than any other really demonstrates how little respect the Democratic Party establishment has for its progressive members Now this isn't surprising to anyone on the left if you've been paying attention But this story in particular is so egregious that even some centrists are looking at it and they're saying Okay, this is a little bit too far so the D triple C is the campaign arm of the Democratic Party and This organization has one goal the chair of the D triple C Sean Maloney has one goal literally It's to get incumbent Democrats re-elected. That's what he's paid for but this individual is So craven that he has announced that he's going to try to sink the career of One of the members who he is literally supposed to be protecting So as Kenny Stancil of common dreams explains Representative Sean Maloney the leader of House Democrats campaign arm tasked with protecting incumbents has come under fire this week after Declaring his intention to run against first-term progressive representative Mondare Jones in a newly redrawn New York Congressional district a move that critics have slammed as cowardly and potentially harmful to the party's efforts to keep control of Congress Maloney chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced his plan to mount a primary challenge against Jones Less than an hour after a New York court released a draft of the state's new Congressional districts Which are expected to be made official on Friday despite the fact that Jones currently represents three quarters of the 17th district Maloney's decision to run against the incumbent in New York's August 23rd primary received the blessing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some other high-ranking Democrats the 17th district which President Joe Biden won by 10 points in 2020 is Slightly more friendly to Democrats than the 18th district which he won by eight points and where many commentators believe Maloney should run for re-election Instead after being blindsided by Maloney's announcement Jones only viable options Assuming New York's draft redistricting plan hasn't been significantly revised or to take on the D triple C chair or Challenge fellow first-term progressive representative Jamal Bowman in the 16th district So this is absolutely outrageous and just note how Eager members of the Democratic Party's leadership are to get rid of progressive members of Congress It's absolutely insane. Everyone in unison should be condemning this but Nancy Pelosi gave him the blessing the job of Sean Maloney is to protect incumbents and He's going to take on one of the incumbents who he should be protecting and in doing so may jeopardize The Democratic Party's control of Congress and Nancy Pelosi is like That's fine. I give you the green light and meanwhile Nancy Pelosi is campaigning for an anti-abortion incumbent Over a progressive woman who's challenging him Jessica Cisneros. I mean the Democratic Party establishment I mean they deserve nobody's respect They spit in our faces constantly and then they expect you to support them monetarily when this is not okay now if Sean Maloney Sean Maloney did do this. He would have a massive advantage as the chair of the D triple C He controls the party's cash. He controls the data the infrastructure. I mean he could do Anything he wanted to easily crush Mondare Jones and Mondare Jones if he wants to keep his job in Congress His only option is to run against his colleague in a neighboring district who's also progressive basically ideologically indistinguishable and In the event Mondare Jones decided to do that Then what would happen is a conservative Democrat might win and we might lose two Progressives because Jamal Bowman currently himself is already facing a primary challenge against a right-wing Democrat So in the event Mondare Jones enters that race and Progressive split the votes then that could lead to this right-wing Democrat reaching a plurality and then we knock out Two progressives. It's a nightmare situation, but I mean of course That's why the Democratic Party leadership wants this to happen because they want to get rid of progressives They're a thorn in the side of the Democratic Party establishment Even if Progressives try to do whatever they can to appease you go along with what you want bow down to you. It's still not good enough They want them gone It's ridiculous now progressives as a result of this are going to try to oust Sean Maloney The problem is that if you have the speaker of the house's blessing you're not going to be able to do that So what they're doing instead of just ousting him him is launching a pressure campaign For example, AOC is calling on him to step down if he's going to do this primary because you can't be in this position of power Where you control the campaign arm of the party and then compete in this primary It's completely unfair. It's a conflict of interest So as Heather Cagle of punchbowl news explains representative AOC tells me she'll demand Representative Sean Maloney to step down as D triple C chair if he runs against the fellow dem I don't think you should be the D triple C chair if he's going to challenge another member It's completely inappropriate and she's exactly right. I mean the Democratic Party has not learned back in 2016 They had Debbie Wasserman Schultz who was a former campaign co-chair of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign And then she was the D triple C or the DNC head in 2016 And that was an obvious conflict of interest and then we later learned that internally she was trying to sabotage Anyone who wasn't Hillary Clinton in that race? And so here we have a Democratic Party power broker who's trying to launch this primary campaign against someone And he's expecting to do this while still in that position and Nancy Pelosi has given him her blessing I mean this is outrageous Now it's so bad that even some centrist Democrats are calling this out For example, Richie Torres who is no progressive is denouncing this saying the thinly veiled racism here is profoundly disappointing A black man is ideologically ill-suited to represent a Westchester County district that he represents Presently and won decisively in 2020 outrageous. He added there's a simple solution here Maloney should run in New York 18, which he mostly represents Jones in New York 17 Which he mostly represents Bowman in New York 16, which he mostly represents problem solved. Yeah He's absolutely correct about that. I don't agree with Richie Torres on many things But you know credit where it's due. He's absolutely right about this and I commend him for speaking out This is not acceptable and it's not like if representative Maloney chose to rerun in the district that he's already representing I mean, it's slightly different, but even if he did rerun, he's still overwhelmingly the favorite It's just that he'd have an easier time winning in a general election In the 17th congressional district, which is why he's willing to take out Another member of congress potentially two progressive members of congress just so he has a little bit easier of a job I mean, what happened to actually trying to compete and win voters over? Sure, this is a slightly new district, but it's still overwhelmingly your district I mean, can you not convince them with policy? It's just absurd now I do want to get to some more reactions here because I think that everyone is rightfully upset about this Indivisibles Ezra Levin writes two words for this cowardice hypocrisy Maloney's job is to help Dems win tough seats He's now abandoning his own district to run against a fellow democrat in a safer district Maloney is running from a fight. He's supposed to be leading embarrassing disgraceful behavior David Nure of the Daily Costs writes assuming the map is finalized as is Jones would represent three times as much of new york 17 As Maloney, he's also vastly more progressive than Sean Patrick Maloney One of the most centrist Dems in the house Jones even had more cash on hand than Maloney as of march 31st 2.9 million versus 2.1 million. Yeah, I mean there's there's nothing left to say This is completely unacceptable And again, it shows you how much they hate the left and this isn't the only example I mean in Buffalo, New York, india walton literally defeated the incumbent democrat in a primary and what did he do? He decided to launch a sore loser right in campaign He then picked up right wing donors and then he beat her because he brought in more money This is what happens. I mean how many high-profile democrats spoke out against that This is this is what happens time and time Again, the the democratic party is fundamentally corrupt and broken to its core And nothing will ever change so long as leadership as it is remains in charge And if you don't like Nancy Pelosi, well Got bad news for you the next person to uh succeed her. Steny Hoyer Jim Clyburn, they're as bad if not worse if we're talking about steny Hoyer So I mean there's no uh, there's going to be no change in leadership for the foreseeable future So this is what the left has to look forward to and as a result the democratic party is going to wonder Why they're hemorrhaging support why the left and young people just don't want to support them It's because of things like this. Do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the humanist report the rational national and the majority report But oftentimes youtube doesn't deliver our videos to your subscription box. 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