If they were thinking about the rust belt, they'd not have sabotaged Sanders
campaign. They made a choice to value their wealthy donors over their base.
They may have made an error. I was remembering, last night, about when Nixon
won the Presidency. Reagan won. Bush won. Trump could win, also. The
Democratic Party establishment is deluded if it believes that it is
invulnerable.
Miriam
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They could have picked Brown which would have locked up Ohio, but they were
afraid of losing the Senate seat.
This is a dangerous choice in the rust belt.
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Hillary Clinton Picks Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for VP, Frustrating
Sanders Delegates By Steven Rosenfeld [1] / AlterNet [2] July 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running
mate, a centrist from a swing state who speaks Spanish, worked with
Central American missionaries when he was in his 20s, and slowly made
his way up the political ladder to the U.S. Senate where he is a
foreign affairs expert.
The vice presidential choice ends weeks of speculation that Clinton
might choose a progressive like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, or Sen.
Sherrod Brown, D-OH, to appeal to the more then 40 percent of primary
voters who backed Bernie Sanders.
Her choice was quickly criticized by Sanders delegates whose polling
of their delegation last week found wide dissatisfaction with with
Kaine's pro-corporate record. Earlier this week, Kaine raised their
ire when it was disclosed in the Huffington Post that he wrote [3] to
federal regulators urging them to go easy on several proposed banking
regulations.
As Virginia's governor, the Sanders delegates noted that Kaine had
supported restrictions on abortion-although he has had a 100 percent
pro-choice voting record in the Senate, according to an endorsement
issued Friday by NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League.
But Sanders delegates also said that Kaine defended Virginia's
anti-union "right-to-work" law and supports corporate trade deals like
the Trans Pacific Partnership.
"The numbers about Sen. Kaine from the Bernie Delegates Network survey
of Sanders delegates nationwide - less than 3 percent 'Acceptable' and
88.5 percent 'Unacceptable' - foreshadow that picking Kaine for the VP
slot will set in motion a very contentious national convention,"
Norman Solomon, coordinator of the national network and a Sanders
delegate, said in a press release. "Selections have consequences.
Secretary Clinton must know that her choice of Kaine can only inflame
rather than soothe her relations with the huge constituency of Bernie
supporters. They will understand what it means when their efforts to
challenge oligarchy have been met by Clinton's selection of a loyal
servant of oligarchy. If Clinton has reached out to Bernie supporters,
it appears that she has done so to stick triangulating thumbs in their
eyes."
"When the pomp and circumstance of the convention is over, millions of
Bernie's supporters could well be left wondering why their suggested
running mates were not considered," Donna Smith, executive director of
Progressive Democrats of America, said in that release. "The party
platform and the running-mate selection were the two tangible ways for
the Clinton camp to show they truly understood and embraced the
commitment to the progressive agenda that Senator Sanders advanced
during the primary season. It seems all the efforts to portray a
desire for unity may have been little more than lip service. Bernie
delegates are serious, thoughtful, and in many cases voters who are
new to the party. Vice-presidential candidate Kaine does not inspire
those many millions of energetic voters to stay so deeply engaged and
to work for a Clinton-Kaine ticket."
In her announcement e-mail to supporters, however, Clinton described
Kaine a progressive who grew up steeped in church-based social justice
movements.
"I'm thrilled to share this news: I've chosen Tim Kaine as my running
mate,"
she wrote Friday evening. "Tim is a lifelong fighter for progressive
causes and one of the most qualified vice presidential candidates in
our nation's history."
"But his credentials alone aren't why I asked him to run alongside me,"
she
said. "Like me, Tim grew up in the Midwest. During law school, he too
took an unconventional path -- he took time off and went to Honduras
to work with missionaries, practicing both his faith and his Spanish."
"When he returned to the states and graduated from Harvard Law, he
could have done anything," she continued. "But instead of going to
some big corporate firm, he chose to fight housing discrimination as a
civil rights lawyer in Richmond. He and his wife joined a church,
built a home centered around their faith, and raised three beautiful
children. Then, after 17 years of practicing law, Tim ran for city council
- and won."
According to his Wikipedia biography, Kaine took a break from law
school "to work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Honduras. Kaine
worked in Honduras for nine months from 1980 to 1981, helping Jesuit
missionaries who ran a Catholic school in El Progreso. Kaine is fluent
in Spanish as a result of his year in Honduras."
Today, he is the junior Senator from Virginia, elected in 2012. Prior
to that, he served as the state's governor from 2006 to 2010. He was
considered a finalist for a running mate in Barack Obama's 2008
presidential campaign, but instead became the 51st Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, serving from 2009 to 2011.
The New York Times reported several days ago that former President
Bill Clinton was urging Hillary Clinton to choose Kaine. At first
glance, the choice appears to neutralize Donald Trump's choice of
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a far right Christian conservative, by
appealing to a range of Christian voters, both white and non-white.
However, other progessives were quick to criticize Kaine's selection
as well.
"As we saw in Donald Trump's speech last night, Republicans will run
hard against Democrats on trade this year," said Stephanie Taylor,
co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee. "Unfortunately,
since Tim Kaine voted to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
Republicans now have a new opening to attack Democrats on this
economic populist issue."
"The mood of the country is a populist one," she said. "The center of
gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted in a bold, populist,
progressive direction -- regardless of who is selected by Hillary
Clinton as Vice President."
Kaine will join Clinton on the campaign trail in Florida as they make
their way to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that
starts on Monday.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running
mate, a centrist from a swing state who speaks Spanish, worked with
Central American missionaries when he was in his 20s, and slowly made
his way up the political ladder to the U.S. Senate where he is a
foreign affairs expert.
The vice presidential choice ends weeks of speculation that Clinton
might choose a progressive like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, or Sen.
Sherrod Brown, D-OH, to appeal to the more then 40 percent of primary
voters who backed Bernie Sanders.
Her choice was quickly criticized by Sanders delegates whose polling
of their delegation last week found wide dissatisfaction with with
Kaine's pro-corporate record. Earlier this week, Kaine raised their
ire when it was disclosed in the Huffington Post that he wrote [3] to
federal regulators urging them to go easy on several proposed banking
regulations.
As Virginia's governor, the Sanders delegates noted that Kaine had
supported restrictions on abortion-although he has had a 100 percent
pro-choice voting record in the Senate, according to an endorsement
issued Friday by NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League.
But Sanders delegates also said that Kaine defended Virginia's
anti-union "right-to-work" law and supports corporate trade deals like
the Trans Pacific Partnership.
"The numbers about Sen. Kaine from the Bernie Delegates Network survey
of Sanders delegates nationwide - less than 3 percent 'Acceptable' and
88.5 percent 'Unacceptable' - foreshadow that picking Kaine for the VP
slot will set in motion a very contentious national convention,"
Norman Solomon, coordinator of the national network and a Sanders
delegate, said in a press release. "Selections have consequences.
Secretary Clinton must know that her choice of Kaine can only inflame
rather than soothe her relations with the huge constituency of Bernie
supporters. They will understand what it means when their efforts to
challenge oligarchy have been met by Clinton's selection of a loyal
servant of oligarchy. If Clinton has reached out to Bernie supporters,
it appears that she has done so to stick triangulating thumbs in their
eyes."
"When the pomp and circumstance of the convention is over, millions of
Bernie's supporters could well be left wondering why their suggested
running mates were not considered," Donna Smith, executive director of
Progressive Democrats of America, said in that release. "The party
platform and the running-mate selection were the two tangible ways for
the Clinton camp to show they truly understood and embraced the
commitment to the progressive agenda that Senator Sanders advanced
during the primary season. It seems all the efforts to portray a
desire for unity may have been little more than lip service. Bernie
delegates are serious, thoughtful, and in many cases voters who are
new to the party. Vice-presidential candidate Kaine does not inspire
those many millions of energetic voters to stay so deeply engaged and
to work for a Clinton-Kaine ticket."
In her announcement e-mail to supporters, however, Clinton described
Kaine a progressive who grew up steeped in church-based social justice
movements.
"I'm thrilled to share this news: I've chosen Tim Kaine as my running
mate,"
she wrote Friday evening. "Tim is a lifelong fighter for progressive
causes and one of the most qualified vice presidential candidates in
our nation's history."
"But his credentials alone aren't why I asked him to run alongside me,"
she
said. "Like me, Tim grew up in the Midwest. During law school, he too
took an unconventional path -- he took time off and went to Honduras
to work with missionaries, practicing both his faith and his Spanish."
"When he returned to the states and graduated from Harvard Law, he
could have done anything," she continued. "But instead of going to
some big corporate firm, he chose to fight housing discrimination as a
civil rights lawyer in Richmond. He and his wife joined a church,
built a home centered around their faith, and raised three beautiful
children. Then, after 17 years of practicing law, Tim ran for city council
According to his Wikipedia biography, Kaine took a break from law
school "to work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Honduras. Kaine
worked in Honduras for nine months from 1980 to 1981, helping Jesuit
missionaries who ran a Catholic school in El Progreso. Kaine is fluent
in Spanish as a result of his year in Honduras."
Today, he is the junior Senator from Virginia, elected in 2012. Prior
to that, he served as the state's governor from 2006 to 2010. He was
considered a finalist for a running mate in Barack Obama's 2008
presidential campaign, but instead became the 51st Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, serving from 2009 to 2011.
The New York Times reported several days ago that former President
Bill Clinton was urging Hillary Clinton to choose Kaine. At first
glance, the choice appears to neutralize Donald Trump's choice of
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a far right Christian conservative, by
appealing to a range of Christian voters, both white and non-white.
However, other progessives were quick to criticize Kaine's selection
as well.
"As we saw in Donald Trump's speech last night, Republicans will run
hard against Democrats on trade this year," said Stephanie Taylor,
co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee. "Unfortunately,
since Tim Kaine voted to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
Republicans now have a new opening to attack Democrats on this
economic populist issue."
"The mood of the country is a populist one," she said. "The center of
gravity in the Democratic Party has shifted in a bold, populist,
progressive direction -- regardless of who is selected by Hillary
Clinton as Vice President."
Kaine will join Clinton on the campaign trail in Florida as they make
their way to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that
starts on Monday.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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