Pelosi and Bustos’s remarks come after Barack Obama, in a private meeting with House freshmen, alluded to Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of allied freshmen, suggesting that their proposed programs were too expensive and should be dialed back. And at the annual AIPAC conference, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., took aim at Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “By the way, there are 62 freshman Democrats. You hear me? Sixty-two. Not three,” he said, later apologizing and saying that he only meant to elevate the other 59 freshmen, not denigrate the three he singled out.
Justice Democrats, which played a key role in the elections of Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and others, is actively recruiting challengers to incumbent Democrats. The DCCC considers defending incumbents from primary challenges, even in safe blue districts, crucial to protecting the majority.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
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