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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:01 AM Jan 2019

Former Clinton Adviser Philippe Reines Pans 'Jackass' Howard Schultz: 'He's Arrogant and Wealthy'

by Aidan McLaughlin | Jan 30th, 2019, 8:35 am

Democratic operatives are not keen on billionaire Howard Schultz‘s flirtation with a 2020 run as an independent, including former Clinton adviser Philippe Reines.

“Howard Schultz is a jackass,” said Reines, in a comment to Axios for a report on the “Furious Democrats” trying to beat Schultz out of contention.

“He’s arrogant and wealthy — and those people tend to not see the world as it is,” Reines added.

Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, also disapproved of Schultz’s proposed bid as a “centrist independent.”

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Centrist Independent? Un-Unh Vogon_Glory Jan 2019 #1

Vogon_Glory

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1. Centrist Independent? Un-Unh

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:13 AM

Jan 2019

I’ll grant him the “independent,” but the Republicans have yanked what was the center so far over to the right that it looks like David Stockman-lite.

Even those of us Democrats who kinda liked some of Tricky Dick’s domestic policies can see that Schultz is past the right-field foul line.

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