AOC's plan to take back congress

>Ocasio-Cortez’s sanctioned slate of newcomers includes voting rights activist Christina Tzintzun Ramirez, who is challenging Washington’s pick to take on Republican Sen. John Cornyn in Texas. The others are running in House races…

>Her PAC describes the type of candidates she is looking to amplify as “people who refuse to bow to establishment pressure, who advocate ferociously for working-class families, and who have lived the same struggles as the people they seek to represent.”

>Three of the women Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Friday, Teresa Fernandez in New Mexico, Samelys López in New York and Georgette Gómez in California, are running for open Democratic seats. A fourth, Kara Eastman in Nebraska, is making her second run against sitting Republican Rep. Don Bacon whom she nearly beat in 2018.

>The other two candidates are taking on Democratic incumbents. Jessica Cisneros is running against Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Marie Newman who is challenging Rep. Daniel Lipinski (Ill.).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-endorses-8-female-progressive-candidates-to-challenge-establishment-democrats/2020/02/21/4482c8bc-54be-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

Bloomberg's Meme Team BANNED

>Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has been experimenting with novel tactics to cultivate an online following, or at least the appearance of one.

But one of these strategies — deploying a large number of Twitter accounts to push out identical messages — has backfired. On Friday, Twitter began suspending 70 accounts posting pro-Bloomberg content in a pattern that violates company rules.

“We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesman said. Some of the suspensions will be permanent, while in other cases account owners will have to verify they have control of their accounts.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-21/twitter-suspends-bloomberg-accounts?fbclid=IwAR0VG3hmPESg3HQ8RAKGNcxBSemnVz_GknZ5cc1qxCNI7t-QXmR8kcRDoWA

Pocahontas broke, borrows wampum

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a $3 million loan fearing she would run out of cash.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fundraising-idUSKBN20F0LZ

P.U.T.I.N Vegas

>LAS VEGAS — Pigeons with tiny Make American Great Again hats glued to their heads were released in downtown Las Vegas this week in what appears to be a sarcastic statement of loyalty to President Donald Trump and a mock protest of Nevada's coming Democratic presidential caucuses.

>A group calling itself P.U.T.I.N., Pigeons United To Interfere Now, claimed responsibility for the stunt. The pigeons were set loose Tuesday, according to the group.

>NBC affiliate KSNV spotted at least one of the pigeons still in a hat on a downtown street Wednesday afternoon.

"P.U.T.I.N. have used their pigeons to launch a one of a kind aerial protest piece in response to the arrival of the 2020 Democratic Presidential hopefuls," according to a group statement. "The release date was also coordinated to serve as a gesture of support and loyalty to President Trump."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/pigeons-make-america-great-again-hats-glued-their-head-released-n1138556

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213007446#post24

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