Progressive liberals called Thursday for the resignation of Rep. Steny Hoyer after a secret recording emerged in which the second-ranking member of House Democratic leadership urges a congressional candidate to pull the plug on his campaign in a Colorado race to clear the way for the preferred choice of the national party.
The Intercept unearthed the secretly taped audio in which Mr. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, urges Levi Tillemann, who served in the Obama administration, to drop out of the race in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District and says the party supports his primary opponent Jason Crow.
Mr. Tillemann secretly taped Mr. Hoyer when they met at a hotel in December.
Charles Chamberlin, executive director of Democracy For America, responded by demanding that Mr. Hoyer resign or abandoned his leadership post as House Minority Whip.
“The secret recordings of Steny Hoyer trying to push a grassroots progressive candidate out of a race for Congress exposes the work Hoyer has done for years actively undermining progressive power in Congress and ensuring the Democratic Party is filled with elected officials who are politically incapable of standing up to the corporate interests who profit off the country’s growing racial and economic inequality,” Mr. Chamberlin said.
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4 comments:
Is there no hope in finding any sense of decency in the Democratic Party, At least they can be identified by party affiliation. Regrettably that is a wide brush and some innocents get painted too.
Forget the shenanigans. This idiot proudly advertises his support for ELIMINATING Trump tax cuts and RAISING taxes. Is he delusional? Pelosi calls it "crumbs". THEY think we don't deserve it. I do.
Liberal officials in Government wrongly assume the citizens (deplorables) won't dare challenge their platform of MORE taxes.
We shall see.
At least now the People know who NOT to vote for. Maybe the grassroots guy will improve the status quo, maybe not, but at least there's a chance.
Not that I believe that there's a "good" Democrat out there. I still can't understand why, after the last 15 years any human being in the Constitutional USA would claim to subscribe to the Dem party.
This is nothing new. dumbocrat voters never get to choose their candidates. The party chooses them for you.
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