There can be no doubt that the current Republican Reich under Fuhrer Donald "Pay to Play" Trump is the most corrupt party in US history. I consider it important that Democrats demonstrate and run on clean governance as part of a progressive platform for 2018. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) revealed Democratic plans for an anti-corruption plank.
Democrats plan to hammer the corruption allegations swirling around the Trump administration in the run up to the midterms, hoping to tap into a successful strategy that delivered them control of Congress in 2006.
Democratic leaders will roll out the latest plank of their messaging platform Monday, focusing on a package of anti-corruption bills they say would directly target "pay-to-play" accusations linked to the White House — and some of the most controversial players in President Donald Trump’s orbit — if enacted.
“The corruption, the conflicts of interest in this administration are important, not only because it’s not the right way to do things, but because of what it means,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a recent POLITICO Playbook event.
The anti-corruption plank will focus on three key areas, according to a Democratic official who briefed POLITICO: overhauling campaign finance rules, tightening current ethics laws and strengthening voting laws by cracking down on discrimination at the polls and gerrymandering… [emphasis added]
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These issues are just a small part of a broad progressive platform, but they are a necessary part of it.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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You are correct that it is – comparatively – a small plank compared to getting things done that make peoples lives better, and particularly the lives of those people who most desperately need their lives made better. But the plank that looks small in a long term plan may very well end up being a YOOGE plank in the process of getting into position to implement all the planks. I thoroughly applaud this move.
WTG, Dems!!
They have my support on this.
The anti-corruption plank is nice, but I’m tired of politicians talking the talk without walking the walk.
AMEN Freya!!!
It’s more of a support beam than a little plank, one that should support democracy but is currently either missing or rotten to the core in all of politics. Or rather in democracy itself.
There’s little chance that Big Money will be banned from “donating” to campaigns after that disastrous SCOTUS Citizens United ruling, but I hope Democrats will at least make their intentions clear on their own platform, i.e. mission statements, not just in bills that soon will be forgotten because they never make it into law.
And they should be very careful in vetting their candidates on how they walk this particular walk. One corruption case (or talking money from the NRA for instance) can undo all of the good work and ruin the trust Democrats are slowly rebuilding among a wider range of voters.
Very well said! I could not add anything more other than ‘from your keyboard to Democrat ears’!!!
Thanks all. Busy Hugs!
Of course I agree that the plank is far more important than it’s apparent size. Otherwise I would not have featured it.
I might get to like Nancy again.
I started liking Nancy again when someone quipped, “Now I know what happened to Paul Ryan’s balls. An Italian grandmother from San Francisco carries them in her purse.” No, she’s not perfect. But she’s not washed up either (if she were, the Rethugs wouldn’t hate her so much.)
TY ? TC