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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaturday announcement to detract from Women's March??? Fund raise??
Just asking. Anything that gets the government open right now .
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)To distract from the Women's March. Could it be any more obvious?
malaise
(269,292 posts)ITTMF!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)that has to do with women.
2naSalit
(86,943 posts)at an adoring crowd so... And Speaker Pelosi is pissing him off so all women need to be shut up. This day isn't going to go well for him. And by Monday, MLK Day, he's going to be really dangerous.
still_one
(92,510 posts)out, and referring to him as "the greatest of all time", and refusing to condemn Farrakhan, and distance herself from him.
There is a reason that the DNC, NARAL, NAACP, and other sponsors, along with most of the potential Democratic candidates will not be attending.
I have no doubt the press will be there covering that march, especially with all the controversy now surrounding it
allgood33
(1,584 posts)say we are not to turn us against each other.
still_one
(92,510 posts)Farikahem, and refused to. She made this about herself, not the women's movement.
Do you think it is lame that the DNC, NAACP, NARAL, and other notable women groups are removing their sponsership from the event, or the potential Democratic candidates such as Kamila Harris, Sherrod Brown, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kristen Gillibrand, etc. will not be attending?
"But there's no spinning it: Women's March Inc., which has organized the largest rallies and political campaigns of the young movement, is coming into 2019 dogged by controversy. Tamika Mallory, one of the group's other co-founders, has associated with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, has never completely denounced his anti-Semitism, and has been accused of holding her own conspiratorial beliefs about Jews.
As The Post's Marissa J. Lang has reported, a number of marches that never relied on Women's March Inc. for support have issued statements saying they have nothing to do with Sarsour's group. The Democratic National Committee and nearly 300 other organizations that endorsed the 2017 march are no longer affiliated with it. Few actual or potential Democratic 2020 candidates are planning to wade into the crowds.
What began as an astoundingly successful grass-roots organization has become a politically fraught one, in ways that could shape Democratic politics and the 2020 primaries.
The 2017 Women's March was a seminal event for Democrats, especially those with presidential ambitions. In speeches and memoirs, many of them have referred to the event as the beginning of a real resistance to the Trump presidency, even more than the surprisingly successful health-care rallies that took place before the inauguration."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2019/01/17/the-trailer-who-s-afraid-of-the-women-s-march/5c3f55a11b326b3b88fef0aa/?utm_term=.5196a9b60908
No question about it, it is divisionary, and right or wrong, it has implications beyond the women's movement, inclluding 2020.
This could have become a non-issue, still can, but one of the leaders' ego decided to make this more about herself than the movement.
MFM008
(19,836 posts)Distraction.
Period.