When I unseat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (WITH YOUR HELP), I won’t treat people who disagree with me politically as the enemy.
Unlike Rep. Greene, I will not kick my own constituents out of rallies like she did to me.
RT, FOLLOW & donate here:https://t.co/TmNcdxR528 pic.twitter.com/La60YPOncP
— Marcus Flowers (@Marcus4Georgia) June 5, 2021
I don’t think the man will win, not in that particular Georgia district, but I might send him a small donation for his entertainment value. He gets enough media attention, I give good odds MTG starts barking the N-word like a dog, on camera. From the New Yorker:
… “We don’t even have a Party chair in Haralson County,” Marcus Flowers said the other day from his house, an hour west of Atlanta. A bearded Black man in his mid-forties, with a scar over one eye, Flowers is an Army veteran and a former military contractor. “A compliance guy,” he said. “Not Blackwater.” He was in his unfinished “basement-gym-office-storage-future-in-law suite,” from which he has raised more than a million dollars in his quest to unseat Greene…
Flowers calls himself moderate. “I might have voted for Bush the first time,” he said. “But I can’t remember.” He met John McCain in 2006 and told him that he’d vote for him if he ever could. “That was before I knew who Obama was,” he added. Flowers’s campaign manager, Chase Goodwin—a veteran of the ill-fated Matt Lieberman Senate campaign—sat staring at his phone. He’d just seen a new tweet from Greene. This one was about “left-wing extremism infiltrating our military,” he reported…
They got in Flowers’s truck and drove north to Dalton. It was a “recon mission,” Flowers said. Their target: the third installment of Greene and Congressman Matt Gaetz’s “America First” tour, which had already made its way through Florida and Arizona…
Inside, a few hundred mostly elderly white people milled around. “Tiny Dancer” played. A large blond event-security guy soon approached Flowers at a concession stand. The man wore a shirt—a few sizes too small—emblazoned with the words “Viking Executive Protection.” “I’m asking you to leave,” the security guy said, “because the party of Marjorie Greene recognizes you.” He paused. “Like, we recognize you as somebody that will cause problems here.” He continued, “My job is to assess a threat.”
Flowers, sipping a blue Gatorade, remained relaxed. He wanted to hear his congresswoman speak, he said, and to talk to her if possible. The security guy admitted that he liked Flowers’s style. Then he called the police.
“Y’all are welcome to stand outside,” a cop told Flowers, who tipped his hat and turned to his cameraman. “Congresswoman Greene is apparently afraid to talk to me,” he said. “Yet she chased Congresswoman Cortez down the halls of Congress and screamed at her. All right.”…
But seriously… there will be other races in the future, and it’s always good to encourage new Dems, right?
I am honored to be endorsed by @NoDemLeftBehind, who has a record of supporting formidable candidates, such as @valdemings & @TimRyan.
Together, we can continue the important work of defending democracy & truth in Congress. pic.twitter.com/CnFDiQ2kLu
— Marcus Flowers (@Marcus4Georgia) June 9, 2021
misterpuff
Uh what?
Oh well, a blue dog or stealth GOPer must be better than Rep Greene but something smells of grift, if you ask me.
piratedan
he may not be the only announced candidate too, even though its an uphill battle, some of these fights have to be made. I see nothing wrong with pointing out their own hypocrisy and hubris. The difficult part is being seen and being taken seriously. It seems that the GOP candidates are more concerned with the Conservative Cosplay because they’re so afraid of being shot by their own side, lest they are determined to be insufficiently faithful.
Gvg
@misterpuff: it’s also branding. A heck of a lot of people like to think of themselves as “moderate”. It’s not like the ones who call themselves conservative or radical or extremist are persuadable to vote Democrat in that district. He almost has to use that label and if he wins, he probably has to BE moderate and have good constituent services. If he is secretly liberal, he will have to wait for that district to change before revealing such.
We do need to hear more about him though.
RichWebb
I’ll give him chance, even though he’s Army (pptu (“Go Navy” (sorry Cole))). Spent all my summers as a kid in a small town in Chattooga County, so some nostalgia applies — as well as shame about MTG.
NotMax
FYI.
Yeah, like he repeatedly showed up uninvited.
Shakti
@Gvg: I don’t know if MTG is crazy or just acts crazy like a skunk. She scares me.
Either way, “moderate “and focused on constituent service is a great contrast to “troll for IG likes.” I don’t think there’s some fund of secretly progressive people who’ll turn out and vote in that district. But I don’t live there so…
When I take online spectrum quizzes I’m “very liberal” or “progressive” but if a pollster gets me on the phone I say I’m “moderate.” Because it’s insane to me that I had pretty much the same views I had 20 years ago and I’m “radical” so I reframe.
It is funny (ridiculous) that he picks the moderate label as to appear non threatening next to MTG who harasses people and is armed everywhere.
dr. bloor
This is a man who has clearly discerned that the citizens of his home district are the sort who prefer entertainment to legitimate political representation and participation.
Which is to say, it just might work.
Joe Falco
The other Democrat running for that seat is Holly McCormack. I wish either Democrat all the luck to unseat Greene next year.
Steve in the ATL
A moderate nazi couldn’t get elected in that district.
dr. bloor
@Shakti:
She should. Her best comparison would be Andy Kaufmann, and the smart money would be on unambiguous, severe psychopathology that’s being aided and abetted by cynics who make a bunch of money off her.
UncleEbeneezer
Since it got buried at the end of an earlier thread, here is a great piece by former WTA player, Taylor Townsend on what it was like as a Black Woman with a non-skinny body in the skinny-white world of tennis. Really interesting read about misogynoir and fat phobia.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/taylor-townsend-tennis
Mary G
I don’t know if someone has posted this already, but it cracks me up:
JPL
@Steve in the ATL: Ditto.
JPL
Sadly, democrats cannot win that seat. Don’t waste your money.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: I saw an article last week interviewing “soft” Boebert voters in CO. I think at least five people said, effectively, “Oh yeah, she’s nuts… but she’s strong on the Second Amendment”
Geminid
@Shakti: Some liberal Democrats don’t like having to share their party with moderates. But polls show half the Democratic electorate self-describe as moderate. This reflected in the House Democratic Caucus. The Progressive Caucus and the moderate New Democratic are rougly equal in number at around 100 each, with the Blue Dog Caucus coming in at 19. But both Congressional wings accept that they have to work together. I think most Democratic voters understand this too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Those of you in the northeast will be treated to a partial annular solar eclipse tomorrow morning
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: I’m giving to a couple of personal favorites– Shontel Brown and Val Demmings so far, the WI Dems, cause I well and truly hate Ron Johnson. I might start with vulnerable Dems. But I think we’re at least a year away from having any idea
gwangung
@Geminid: Of course, many progressives don’t.
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Sheep dogs gotta sheep dog.
That’s adorable. I know the type.
Ken
@Mary G: Darn, it’s a border collie. Story would have been better if it were a chihuahua that hit its head, got amnesia, and thought it was a herding breed.
(Well, if by “better” you include “fits the tropes of 1960s comedy shows”.)
Elizabelle
@Mary G: Yea, Tilly. Excellent news.
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I suspect those of us in the northeast will be treated to overcast skies tomorrow morning.
Geminid
@gwangung: I like to follow the Wason Center polls of Virginia registered voters. They usually are topical, polling on candidates or issues in upcoming General Assembly sessions. They also take demographic information, including ideological self-identification. The “moderate, lean liberal” group comes in consistently at 24%, and the aggregate of the “liberal” and “strong liberal” groups comes in at 20 or 21%. This may explain why Senators Kaine and Warner are fairly popular among Virginia Democrats, although the Progressive Punch rating site gives Kaine a “D,” and Warner an “F.”
One change in a recent Wason Center poll got my attention. Virginia does not have registration by party, but the Center asks party self-identification. In November of 2019, 34% of respondents said they were Democrats, 30% said they were Independents, and 31% self-described as Republicans. The numbers from a poll taken in February of this year showed Democrats at 37%, Independents at 34%, and Republicans at 25%- a 6 point drop, almost 20%. I think of this when I hear Republicans talk about the new voters trump brought to the party.
bbleh
Contest EVERY DAMN ELECTION, even ones that seem “hopeless.” (I mean tout les Savvy just knew that Ossoff would win.) And even if you lose, you encourage and empower your people both in the district and elsewhere, and you facilitate the building of organizations that (hopefully) continue the fight.
Are there any other Dems declaring? Any with this reach? Come ON, if you have it to spare, put in ten bucks.
Anne Laurie
If you read the link, border collie – (cattle) heeler cross, actually.
My first thoughts were Damn it’s a good thing the farmer didn’t shoot first & ask questions later… and At least Tilly was *herding* the sheep, not *nipping* them, which is Heeler instinct!
Seriously: Tilly is one damned lucky dog, and not just because his people loved him enough to publicize his loss so widely!
Sheep dogs are trained to ‘work’ sheep ‘by eye’ — threating posture & stares. Sheep are nervous enough around predators that threats work to keep them in line, mostly. Cattle are much less suggestible (since cattle are larger & have horns), so cattle-herding breeds like heelers & corgis are allowed to nip their heels to get them going where they’re supposed to.
This is why heelers / corgis have short legs, their stans say; cattle kick backwards & the kick goes over the dog’s head. I kinda believe this, because so many corgis I’ve met will give a ‘friendly’ nip & then immediately lean back… they may not have ever seen a cow in person, but Say hi, dodge hoof is in the legacy programming!
Wag
I’m really bummed that TFG has ruined Gloria for me for ever and ever.
RaflW
@Shakti: Harassing people and being armed everywhere is mainstream Republican now.