Star Member DFW (26,624 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210029883
Well, I just told my first fundraising call for a Democrat to f*** off. Hated to, but......
I have a US phone that I turn on when I'm in North America. So who is the first call I get? Some VERY pushy guy asking me to commit $500 (!!) to Tammy Baldwin, to whose successful Senate campaign I had contributed heavily last time. Sure, I just have spare $500 bills to hand out at very whim.
Tammy Baldwin is on the "Franken resign" list, so she (along with the rest of them) gets zero from me until they win their primaries on their own. But MAN was this guy insufferable, and I wouldn't have given him a dime if he was raising money for Obama's third term. Don't know if he was a hired pro or what, but I had to hang up on him. The call, as chance would have it, came at a moment when I was in a room with several friends of Al Franken. VERY poor timing!
SUCK IT, DNC!
Star Member Tarheel_Dem (28,022 posts)
1. Some things are better kept to one's self.
It's ok. One of my moles already alerted on this POS.
Star Member Tarheel_Dem (28,022 posts)
7. I think it's awful to use DU's bandwidth to essentially suppress enthusiasm in a critical midterm.
You may find it satisfying, but I find it self defeating (especially when the mission of this board is to elect more Democrats). I, too, wish that Sen. Franken had been granted the investigation he initially called for, but that didn't happen, and it's time to move forward and take back the Congress.
As for those "pushy fundraisers"...they're trying to help us. Telling them to f**k off may feel good in the moment, but when you come back here and spread that loathsome message to allies & enemies alike, you do more harm than good. I only hope that's not your intent.
Now... A second mole has alerted on it.
Star Member boston bean (30,884 posts)
62. Who are you gonna support in the primary?? Does she have a democratic opponent??
Can he vote from Germany?
ProudMNDemocrat (635 posts)
3. Nor will I give a dime........
To any Senate Democrat who was on the "get rid of Al Franken" badwagon . The DSCC is going to be hurting in 2018.
rainin (614 posts)
13. It is our right and our obligation to support
candidates we trust. I will not support any Senator on the "Franken resign" list in the primaries. In the General, obviously, they will get my full support - that includes donations for senators outside my state.
I am still angry. Democrats should be forced to remember that due process is a democratic value. Period!
Star Member Eliot Rosewater (9,879 posts)
33. I have an idea, pretend you are in a cafe in Germany in 1920 and across the way you see a guy throwing a fit with the waitress, you overhear he is mad at the world for failing as an artist.
You then see the future for a moment, realize who that person is, do you then go over and complain to the waitress about how not hot your coffee was?
Or do you dedicate every waking moment of your life to preventing that man from gaining power, vowing to vote for ANYONE who opposes him, NO MATTER WHAT?
Star Member elfin (5,525 posts)
40. Wisconsinite here - going to cut her some slack
She is in trouble of not being re-elected - huge money and lies out to get her in what has shifted from blue to Walker red. I cannot bear to have my state be identified with Walker, and Ron (Sunspot) Johnson, and another Koch candidate.
I think she was on the later list of Gillibrand's and very possibly after Al told them he was leaving, so pile on if they thought the statement might be good for them, the party, and/or for the issue.
Not completely sure on that, but suspect Gillibrand was twisting arms severely, especially among women.
Cant stand Gillibrand and her horrid misjudgment but worried for Baldwin and my state, so will give some $ as we get far closer and do signs, calls etc in the last stretch.
Met her once - a very good Representative. Her positions are good, but she is not compelling, so a ripe target.
Fullduplexxx (402 posts)
45. Just more dems sabotaging the dems chances in 2018
And if she falls short in fund raising im sure a koch funded republican will be happy to take her place but at least you got it off your chest
Quick tempers and short-sightedness are not positive attributes for politics
HOLY SHIT! A CALPEG sighting!
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (123,573 posts)
92. My Dear Fuddley---****---nutz... I happen to know DFW personally--my husband and I have met and talked with him.
He is NOT short-sighted nor quick tempered, not by a long shot. He is a very intelligent, well spoken, well educated human.
You are way off base.
edited for CALPEG-ness...
Star Member GulfCoast66 (3,058 posts)
63. Right. Because it is morally correct to **** up Democrats who have disappointed us...
Before we move onto Trump.
First we purify ourselves. When that is complete, then and only then do we worry about Republicans.
[sarcasm] which should not be necessary.
I guess 16 taught us nothing.
NOPE!!!
Star Member brooklynite (41,061 posts)
94. The fact that you came here to tell us suggests that you didn't "hate" telling them off...
