It’s all about Don-Don, our degenerate baby man in charge.
I love Canada using Ronald Reagan to troll Donald Trump (see video in the link to Parnas Perspective below).
I heard something about the Toronto Bluejays trolling Trump with Reagan then saw the Parnas Perspective this morning.
Of course, Trump responded in his typical way.
I don’t hate Donald Trump, but I think he sucks at his job. He said he was going to drain the swamp but he made himself King of the Swamp Monsters instead.
I prefer a President who isn’t a pathological liar or an infomercial con-artist. In other words, I prefer every other United States President of my lifetime.
It took Donald Trump to make me appreciate Ronald Reagan. I hated Ronald Reagan. I believed in Reagan, then felt betrayed. Beirut and Iran-Contra deepened my sense of betrayal.
Donald Trump got me elected to public office. I never thought I was qualified to hold public office until Trump got elected in 2016. Trump made me realize anyone… anyone could get elected, if they had the right organization.
Democrats had a tendency not to show up for local elections, not to pay attention. In April 2017, Dems could barely wait for the opportunity to say NO to Trump. In conservative Vernon Township, where Republicans ran unopposed four years before, the Vernon Township Democratic slate started a Blue Wave that overturned Republican control of Lake County for the first time in almost 100 years.
After we won every contested office, Dems reduced the property tax levy and increased social services.
Four years later Democrats ran unopposed.
Trump made me nostalgic for the Hollywood Actor who knew how to play the part. As a public servant, I appreciated the validity of Reagan’s message that taxes could be reduced without hurting social services if we cut corruption and waste. On a local level, this proved true. It’s time again to hear his message about markets and for everyone to wake up and see that we have a corrupt incompetent President who uses his power to leverage pay-to-play and filling the deep dark hole in his soul with appeals to his vanity and ego.
He’s sick. I’ll pray for him, but I also think we should move past his failures and his enablers. It is time for Truth and Reconciliation. Let’s end these toxic policies and divisions that hurt our Republic.
We can yet be the shining city on a hill, instead of the gaudy status symbol of a degenerate, pathetic man.
The Coordinated Dream Team in southside Virginia… Kamala Harris (Tim Walz), Tim Kaine, and Gloria Witt.
When I came to Danville, Virginia in 2008, we pulled off one of the biggest upsets in decades. We won the deep red 5th District by about 800 votes. The record turnouts in Danville had a lot to do with it. Barack Obama at the top of the ticket had a lot to do with it, but that’s not the whole story. Me and Marcus Hughes having conversations in Cardinal Village (walking into the middle of a gun battle one time) had a lot to do with it. Bryant Hood and Steph Spissu getting out at midnight in the 6th Ward to make sure the right door hangers were in place after a report about Republicans switching them up… that had a lot to do with it.
We met many new voters and people that hadn’t voted in a long time. They were excited about Barack Obama, but they didn’t know that Tom Perriello was going to help Barack in the Congress until we had those conversations.
Volunteers walking their home turf in every part of Danville. That had everything to do with it. Felicia King and her crew of teenagers in 11. Ms. Virginia in 6. Ms. Gloria working the front desk. The ladies that ran the Danville Voter Contact Machine phone bank… that had more than a lot to do with it.
But we also had conversations with Republicans and won their votes. They thought Barack was going to raise taxes. They didn’t know he was raising the top rate and was going to give them the largest payroll tax cut in history. They found out Barack was running to put money in their pockets, just as Kamala, Tim Kaine, and Gloria Witt are fighting for working people today.
We brought people together and pulled off an upset and we’re getting the band back together to do it again.
I’m down here helping my friend Joshua Norris. I met him while he was volunteering in 2008 and now he’s campaign manager for Gloria Witt. We’re both doing whatever we can to build back the Danville Voter Contact Machine. At minimum, we will get extra votes for Kamala and the Tims (Walz and Kaine) but it would be especially meaningful to win this Congressional seat again.
The Dems haven’t won it since 2008, but we have a good candidate that can draw a broad coalition and pull off the upset. We want Kamala to win but we also want to make sure she has the people in Congress that will help give working families a #BetterDeal.
Help us help them. I have phone calls to make and doors to hit, so please pass this blog around your personal network and help us support the organizing work that will make this deep red seat blue… again.
We have a chance to make history and do what’s best for our country.
Gloria Witt campaign manager Joshua Norris and organizer Adam Broad at the Obama Reunion Party. Salt Shed. Chicago, IL
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Photo by Maritza #2, different from the Maritza that appeared in my other blog.
Community policing reduced homicide and crime in Chicago in the past. Paul Vallas was part of that, and now, after spending time with my candidate and hearing his plans and motivation in greater detail than a vast majority of voters can tolerate, I have good reason to think Chicago united with Mayor Paul Vallas can have the best version of community policing and be the safest city in the country. The answer isn’t left, right, or center solutions, it’s combining the best versions of all of those being managed by the budgetary discipline of Paul Vallas. The alternative is a candidate who has repeatedly lied about his plans for the Chicago Police and his vast array of tax plans that will hurt everyone and likely push Chicago from the tipping point into an economic nose-dive.
Brandon Johnson is a class warrior supported by my comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America. They are launching their revolution in a city that depends on private investment, corporate jobs, conventions, tourists, professional sports, and world class restaurants. Like it or not, Illinois has a billionaire Democratic Governor. Speaking as someone that has been a card-carrying Democratic Socialist for over 37 years, this city and the Brandon Johnson coalition are not a good fit. Crime is impacting the economy and if getting rid of the cops was part of the solution, the under-staffed CPD would be producing better results for the Chicago Commune, instead of just making half the riders too scared on the EL and most former riders opting to remain former riders. Let’s shake that empty fare box and shout slogans and idealistic goals at it and see if the budget magically grows. Even Richard M Daley buying the magic bean turned out to generate more revenue than anything Elgin Branding Brandon is likely to come up with.
The Mayor of Chicago will need to collaborate with the Governor, a diverse Chicago city council and the moderate democratic super majority in Springfield. Paul Vallas is more closely aligned to the moderates than Johnson. Like it or not, you cannot have reform without collaboration. Johnson blaming unsolved problems and broken promises on his enemies will not be a fun thing to watch while the city implodes.
Paul Vallas has a winning message to unite the city: Public Safety and Holding The Line on Taxes.But wait, there’s more…
We need CPD on the EL, on regular beats in the communities, in the parks, and we ought to build the next generation of CPD from the neighborhoods for the neighborhoods. Vallas wants all that and knows how to do it.
My Defund the Police comrades insist more police is more fascism and more heads getting busted open. That’s fine for protest politics people who don’t manage a city, but a Chicago Mayor with that kind of contempt for police officers that risk their lives for the city is unacceptable to me. Under Johnson I expect we will lose a lot of experienced cops who also find it unacceptable.
Tearing down yard signs is old school Chicago politics kid stuff that had gone out of style, but it has been passionately brought back by the Johnson campaign.
Some people in the Johnson camp are openly celebrating the possibility of an already understaffed CPD being more understaffed under Johnson.
Most of the comrades are not cop haters but a few of them are not too shy or ashamed to celebrate when cops get killed. Brandon Johnson condemns a moderate Democrat getting votes from Republicans that want public safety and don’t want higher taxes, but Brandon Johnson is not turning away any support from people that say “There is no such thing as a good cop.”
Johnson went from strongly advocating #DefundThePolice to saying he would cut well over 100 million from the police budget and leave 1100 vacancies in the ranks.
Until a few days ago,Brandon Johnson advocated a Defund The Police agenda as candidate for Mayor while claiming he did not support Defunding the Police. There’s proof, right there, that Brandon Johnson plays fast and loose with the truth.
Brandon Johnson is the Black Trump in this race and he’s getting away with it. Remember, Brandon Johnson said Barack Obama is a Republican, too. It’s a Bernie Bro position I’ve expressed in a more nuanced way, but stated bluntly, it’s a lie. It sets a terrible example for the kids. Pretending Obama did nothing good is the sort of thing Donald Trump did when he systematically rolled those things back.
Brandon Johnson disrespects Barack Obama, just like Trump, and he does the same thing to Paul Vallas, because an honest comparison between the two leaves Brandon at the County Board fetching Toni Preckwinkle’s coffee or defunding the Sheriff’s office like he did.
If Brandon Johnson had the ability to cut through waste and corruption to fund political reform he would have done it already at the Cook County Board.
Brandon Johnson’s four years with seventh and eighth graders must’ve made him a little too comfortable thinking he was the smartest guy in the room. Now, after entering the race a Defund The Police hero, lying about that while pushing Defund The Police agenda, he says not a penny comes out.
Brandon Johnson, Cook County Commissioner with a six figure CTU organizer salary and a 1 million dollar double pension is not the progressive champion he appears to be.
Let’s be kind and just say Brandon Johnson is being less than his best self. He walked back one of his core beliefs in order to get elected and he walked back his tax plans in order to get elected. Was he lying to the anti-cop comrades when he stood for Defund The Police or is he lying to moderates and everyone else when he walks it all back?
He’s definitely lying to one group of Chicagoans when he shouldn’t be lying to any of us.
This is a personal blog to answer friends that don’t understand why I support the best qualified candidate. This is a rogue production and it is not endorsed by any campaign, candidate, or committee.
We suck at organizing #M4A and #GND so let’s do culture war bullshit instead!
This is a progressive organization reinventing themselves as Brandon Johnson grifters and playing Bernie Sanders followers for chumps.
Paul Vallas is an ally. You can disagree with his lack of hard left ideology, but why lie about his stances and put out your tip jar? That’s not what Bernie would do. Does he know his voter list is being used for this garbage? Someone please tell him.
Paul Vallas is endorsed by Tom Tunney, the first openly gay alderman to serve on Chicago City Council. Strongly endorsed.
Paul Vallas is endorsed by Gery Chico, who supported gay marriage in the 2004 Senate race when every other major candidate, including Barack Obama, hedged.
This Tom Tunney ad is from the primary. Early voting is now.
Chicago early voting locations and hours listed in Sun-Times article
This is a personal blog to answer friends that don’t understand why I support the best qualified candidate. This is a rogue production and it is not endorsed by any campaign, candidate, or committee.
My name is Adam Broad and I am the literal worst guy you know that just endorsed Paul Vallas for Mayor.
Adam Broad is one of the founding co-organizers of Our Illinois Revolution and Our Revolution Lake County. He was on the slate of 2020 delegates for Bernie Sanders in IL-10.He was an organizer for the Illinois Single Payer Coalition before launching an unsuccessful campaign for Congress which was endorsed and organized by Our Revolution Buffalo Grove.
Adam Broad 