Sanders surrogates, union execs will shape 2020 platform.
WFB: Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has called on two of socialist senator Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) top allies to help lead an economic advisory group tasked with shaping the party’s 2020 agenda.
The Biden campaign tapped top Sanders allies Stephanie Kelton and Sara Nelson to join a “unity task force” focused on developing the Democratic platform on the economy. An economist at Stony Brook University, Kelton served as an economic adviser to Sanders’s failed presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020. She has argued that the government can pay for expensive programs, including the $94 trillion Green New Deal, by printing more money. Nelson, who is president of the Association of Flight Attendants, was Sanders’s guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February. She has been floated as the progressive pick to replace AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka in 2021, tying her candidacy to the implementation of far-left values in the labor movement.
The appointments come as Sanders attempts to push Biden further to the left. While coronavirus has thwarted the socialist insurgent’s plan to influence the party platform by seeking additional primary delegates—Sanders’s campaign called New York state’s decision to cancel its June presidential primary “a blow to American democracy”—the task force gives the Vermont senator an opportunity to sell Biden on far-left economic policies as the U.S. attempts to rebound from the pandemic. Following the task force announcement, Sanders released a statement touting the group’s ability to move the Democratic Party in a “transformational and progressive direction.” Biden appeared to agree, saying the task forces “will be essential to identifying ways to build on our progress” and “transform our country” in a Wednesday statement. read more
I wonder if Old Joe has figured out exactly who he’s trying to appeal to yet? I don’t think so.
Flat out communists coming up with
an economic agenda
WELL
Let’s see their
FIVE YEAR PLAN !
Socialists and Communist are Twin brothers, having the same. father,
Karl Marx. One spells Communism with a C, the other spells Communism was an S.
Biden is a sock puppet. His wife is an idiot. His son is a criminal.
Biden reminds me of Stephen Hawking, in his final years: leftist words were put in his mouth as he deteriorated, fully helpless and absoutely dependent on his leftist caretakers before his death.
At least Hawking wasn’t a traitor and a common thief.
Where’s Chiquita Khrushchev? Isn’t she the Brain-Trust with the economics degree!
@TRF May 15, 2020 at 3:35 pm
> Where’s Chiquita Khrushchev?
I’d, actually, like to see xer dance in a sarong, with a fruit basket on xer head.
Is it wrong?
^^^ One thing’s fer sure… in that party there’s an abundance of fruits for her to pick and choose from…
This won’t matter. No one believes Joe will be the one calling the shots if he makes it to November and gets elected. Whether it is his vice president, chief of staff (Jared), or someone else pulling the levers (Pelosi?) it won’t be Joementia.
Money for nothing; chicks for free.
Ladies and gentlemen – your Democrat economic platform.
@Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk May 15, 2020 at 5:40 pm
> Money for nothing; chicks for free.
>
> Ladies and gentlemen – your Democrat economic platform.
Do we have to accept Democrat
chicks?Because, respectfully, I’d rather starve, Commissar.
@Racer X
“Whether it is his vice president, chief of staff (Jared), or someone else pulling the levers (Pelosi?) it won’t be Joementia.”
Exactly – Obummer redux…