- If a right-wing anti-abortion group resoundingly endorses you,
- If you consider “birth control and other forms of artificial contraception 'intrinsically evil”,
- If you lie about Planned Parenthood and vote to freeze their funding,
- If you are anti-union and refuse to support a living wage,
- If you voted and campaigned against the Affordable Care Act,
- If you are anti-immigrant, voted against the DREAM ACT and support Trump’s stupid wall,
- If you voted to weaken Wall Street reform, yet voted for the Keystone Pipeline,
- If you oppose gay marriage, workplace protections for LGBTQ, and co-sponsored a “religious freedom” bill, and
- If you even refused to endorse Barack Obama for re-election…
You are right-wing. You are NOT a Democrat.
And you sure as hell don’t deserve to represent a D+6 district that Bernie Sanders won by 8 points. (And later by HRC.)
Dan Lipinski is the “Democratic” representative for Illinois’ 3rd district—a seat he inherited from his father. He is an anti-woman, gay-hating, closeted republican who doesn’t have the courage of his convictions to become a republican. He is the worst kind of coward.
For any apologist who says we need to “tolerate” this kind of candidate to beat the GOP in a “socially conservative” district, I will simply point out that a) it really isn’t and b) the GOP opponent in this race is a holocaust-denying, unapologetic lifetime Nazi. There is zero chance that the Nazi is going to win this district. Even the white supremacist-loving Illinois GOP was smart enough to disavow him.
Because of his incumbency, the DCCC is giving him money and resources that we desperately need to fight for REAL Democrats in dozens of in-play red districts who are being propped up by the Koch brothers. Joe Lieberman’s Social Security/Medicare-attacking group, No Labels, spent $750K on Lipinski to fend off his primary challenger through their SuperPAC. This included a dishonest mailer that actually tried to tie Lipinski to Obama. David Axelrod wasn’t having it:
Like many republicans, Lipinski has amassed a large war due in no small part to corruption, such as apparently delaying safety standards in exchange for large donations by the rail company PACs.
Despite this, the primary race is a statistical tie. On our side, we have a Daily Kos-endorsed businesswoman, Marie Newman, a real Democrat who has the support of just about every progressive group and politician out there.
We have a real choice, and a real chance to build our coalition. We can’t clean house until we tidy up our own.
Please give $3 to help Marie Newman beat Blue Dog Dan Lipinski and No Labels’ disgusting tactics. The primary is Tuesday, March 20!