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Democrats up requirements for 2nd round of primary debates

The DNC's outline for its September debate -- the third of at least a dozen promised matchups during the 2020 nominating fight -- decrees that candidates can participate only by reaching 2% in four approved polls released between June 28 and Aug. 28 while also collecting contributions from a minimum of 130,000 unique donors before Aug. 28. That donor list must include a minimum of 400 individuals in at least 20 states. The qualifications would remain the same for an October debate, though the party hasn't set the deadline for measuring fundraising and polling.

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DCCC to meet with ["]progressives["] over controversial 'blacklist'[sic] policy
"This is the first time that they are ever making [antitrust violations] open policy."
Welding et al. v. DNC Services Corp., d/b/a Democratic National Committee, final order

Plaintiffs assert several fraud-type claims. But they do not allege they ever heard or acted upon the DNC's claims of neutrality. Plaintiffs also assert a tort claim on behalf of all registered Democrats, even though the harm they allege impacted all Democratic-primary-eligible voters----and under their theory, the entire body politic----the same way.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed May 29th, 2019 at 01:50:47 PM EST
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California Democrats 2019 State Convention, 31 May - 2 June, 14 candidates
BLOOMBERG | It's Knives Out for Biden as Other Democrats Look for a Foothold

The state moved its primary to the Super Tuesday round of voting on March 3, joining at least 13 other states after votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. In 2016, the California primary was held in June.
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Warren's thinly veiled jab at Biden set the tone for others who followed.

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Some dude in a man bun jumping up on a stage full of women talking about pay equality and ripping a microphone out of a US senator's hands so he could talk about the issue HE wants to talk about is perhaps the defining image of our time
— Anti-Alex-Griswoldism (@HashtagGriswold) June 2, 2019

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Jun 3rd, 2019 at 06:06:53 AM EST
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Democrats want to require Pentagon to study climate change risks on military bases, NDAA

"I'm not anticipating a very large pushback," [CO-6 Rep. Jason] Crow said in an interview. "There's already similar language that we've synced up with on the Senate side."
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On Wednesday, [WA-10] Rep. Denny Heck said he would introduce legislation to establish a so-called climate security intelligence center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [DNI]. And after the Pentagon produced a climate report in January and only studied 79 of its hundreds of military bases, House Democrats directed the department to update its work.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Jun 7th, 2019 at 04:33:16 AM EST
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American Press US history: Dem rivals rebuke Biden for not backing abortion rule repeal, 5 June

As a party, Democrats didn't expressly state opposition to the Hyde Amendment until 2016. The Democratic platform that year also introduced a specific mention of Planned Parenthood, as it was adopted amid a rash of Republican-run state legislatures trying to strip Medicaid financing for the women's health giant whose services include abortion and abortion referrals.

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DO Mess with Texas!, 2007
Happy birthday, Roe v Wade., 2009
PPACA ("Obamacare")
ACA-MSM was currying factional acrimony over Hyde Amendment funding prohibition, 2010
longstanding Federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde Amendment, 2010
since the US Congress passed the motherfuckin Hyde Act., 2018
You Don't Have to Overrule Roe to Overrule Roe, 2018

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.