The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.
The farm workers’ union was co-founded by Cesar Chavez, the late grandfather of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who Biden named as his 2024 campaign manager. Her father, Arturo Rodriquez, is a past UFW president.
Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.
She’s not even a Democrat anymore. I personally think democrats need to just tank the filibuster at some point. Some democrats fear what would happen at some future hypothetical Republican senate without a filibuster, but I personally think that’s silly, as Republicans will probably just get rid of it whenever they feel it’s advantageous to them.
Democrats are clearly better than the alternative party (and the third party candidates haven’t exactly been stellar), but we also need to be active in the primary elections and keep getting more progressives in there and boot people like Sinema out.
They should have done so already. They won’t. They love their procedural excuse for inaction.
I don’t buy that one bit. Politicians want to be re elected, and it’s far easier to run on a record of having done something. A lot of people voting hardly even know what a filibuster is or why it would have prevented something from happening. In one Monmouth survey linked below, only 19% of people called themselves very familiar with a filibuster. It’s not exactly going to help them to get re elected by failing to do anything then appealing to a vague parliamentary procedure most people are hardly aware of. Do you seriously see campaign ads going, oh look at the good things I was going to do but didn’t but it’s okay cause parliamentary procedure made it hard, vote for me again. Theory makes no sense.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/filibuster-polls-analysis/index.html
And again if you want the filibuster elimated, you’re best bet is on the democrats. They almost managed it for the voting rights bill, with 48 democrats for making a filibuster exception, only 2 against, and every single republican against.
No, I see them being like “our opponents are fascists and you have no choice” with heavy overtones of “shut up and be happy, peasant.”