Some of this shiite is so predictable you can set your clock by it. After Fauxco did her phony beer routine, I read somewhere that you can expect to see a lot more of her dog, because her handlers have advised her that having the dog on the scene creates an atmosphere of likeability. So, right on schedule, here we go. Whatever. You can't fix phony. https://people.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-introduces-bailey-campaigning-golden-retriever/
Finger wagging and faux outrage about arcane shit. She has done some financial watchdog stuff that is legit out in the trail BUT AT SOME POINT THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN THAT as a campaign message. Pounding the table at college campuses and crowing up about you got checking account fees lifted for 17-24 year olds is not exactly a barn burner. As I said yesterday, expect to see more of her dog on the trail to help her connect. sigh. And she is going to puerto rico to rally everyone about Trump allegedly moving hurricane funds to the wall, which she should do. It's an easy shot and despite being Miss Financial Expert, she has no financial plan for the island. Running against Trump is her thing, as it is for all dem candidates. Except the primaries are eventually about running against other dems, and that gonna be a whole nuther ball game for her. Yup Pocahontis, go get Mitch Mulvaney - link below- over some arcane shit that you cannot possibly fit on a bumper sticker, because young progressives love to watch an old bitchy morally hoity-toity school marm wag her finger over stuff wayy down in the financial weeds. Feel the burn!!!!! I agree with her that about everyone in management at Wells Fargo should have been in prison long ago. They are all crooks. But she has some rap going now about how Wells Fargo should not be allowed on college campuses, another real barn burner of an issue- NOT. Angela Davis she ain't. She is a born boner-killer. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/15/warren-mulvaney-university-south-carolina-1085350
If Hillary taught us anything, it is that simply sending a woman out there who caters to a base already decided to vote Democratic in any election with a focus on issues that mean nothing to people living outside a city will not win even against a candidate like Trump who basically bragged about grabbing women by the pussy (look at all the bi partisan Congressmen who got kicked out of Congress for similar actions). So this should be fun....
Elizabeth Warren pledges help during visit to Puerto Rico PUBLISHED: January 23, 2019 at 7:59 am | UPDATED: January 23, 2019 at 10:00 am By DANICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to help rebuild Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria and support laws to give the U.S. territory equal treatment and debt relief as she condemned President Donald Trump during a visit Tuesday to the island, which has become an obligatory stop for potential and presidential candidates. Warren demanded the resignation of Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And she criticized Trump for denying the hurricane’s death toll and for considering the use of disaster recovery funds to build what she called a “dumb” border wall, provoking laughter and applause from a crowd of a couple hundred people gathered in a small theater. “Puerto Rico has not been treated with respect,” she said. “It is insulting. It is disrespectful. This ugliness has gone far enough. Puerto Rico has suffered enough. We will not allow anyone to sabotage your recovery, not even the president of the United States.” Democrats are using official trips to Puerto Rico as an opportunity to criticize the Trump administration for how it responded to the hurricane and its aftermath. Last week, former housing secretary Julian Castro, who has declared himself a candidate, visited the island and toured communities still struggling more than a year after the storm. The visits have perplexed some and annoyed others in Puerto Rico, whose people are U.S. citizens who can vote in primaries but are barred from voting in presidential elections. Janina Cabret, a 28-year-old San Juan resident who attended Warren’s event, said she hopes whoever wins isn’t delivering empty promises about helping the island. “Even though they use it for marketing, at least it puts Puerto Rico on the map,” she said. Warren said too many homes still lack a proper roof and too many insurance claims have gone unpaid, among other problems that persist more than a year after Hurricane Maria. She also said many people who fled Puerto Rico after the storm have not been able to find a job, housing or health care. Warren reminded the crowd that she voted against a 2016 financial aid package that created a federal control board to oversee the debt-burdened island government’s finances, a body that some complain has imposed an excessive amount of austerity. She also referred to White House comments on Puerto Rico, including a recent one opposing $600 million in nutritional assistance as “excessive and unnecessary,” which angered Gov. Ricardo Rossello’s administration. The senator also talked about the island’s political status, long a key issue for many Puerto Ricans, though five referendums over the years have shown no clear consensus for statehood, the current territorial status or independence. “Puerto Rico deserves self-determination on this question, and I will support the decision of the people of Puerto Rico,” she said. Warren also called for auditing Puerto Rico’s huge public debt, strengthening unions, protecting the island from climate change, and supporting full child tax credits, Medicaid funding and nutritional assistance for islanders, all things that many Puerto Ricans have long demanded. “Puerto Rico’s experience in recent years reflects the worst of what Washington has become, a government that works great for the rich and powerful, and not for anyone else,” she said as she mentioned drug companies, student loan outfits, fossil fuel companies and Wall Street bankers. “We need to take back our federal government from the wealthy and well-connected and return it to the people.” Warren said she would demand that anyone running for federal office post their tax returns online as she has and touted her anti-corruption legislation, which in part calls for ending lobbying and stopping federal lobbyists from giving money to elected officials. She also charged that Trump’s administration has used its power to inflict cruelty on immigrants and people of color. “With Trump, cruelty is not an accident, it is part of the plan,” she said. The audience gave Warren a standing ovation at the end of her speech, many of them tourists thrilled that their visit coincided with hers. Vandy Young, a tourist from Maryland, said she is hopeful about a presidential bid by Warren. “I’ve been waiting for her to run,” she said. “She’s one of the few candidates who can stand up to Trump. She’s not afraid of him.”
One of the quirks in American politics is that candidates campaign in Puerto Rico to try to get votes in New York and Florida.
Puerto Rico cannot vote in the main election.....so once the primaries are done, no one gives a shit about PR.
I'm no student of PR, but my impression for years was they pretty much hated us and wanted to do their own thing and be left alone. Funny how the tune changes after a disaster hits huh?
Obama released/commuted the Puerto Rican independence bomber killer to help them with their independence movement. Trump has not done anything like that for them.
"The graduating ceremony took place last month and was notable because Warren acknowledged she was not a person of color despite having stated that she is Native American in the past." Just shakin my haid. First to the left, now to the right.