By adamg on Tue., 11/13/2018 - 10:53 am
The State House News Service summarizes a panel discussion with Rachael Rollins, newly elected Suffolk County DA and Liz Miranda and Nika Elugardo, both elected as state representatives.
Miranda said that as a candidate this year, she felt she was "fighting" against a party that she says should have been helping her.
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1998 New Jersey
By Jay
Wed, 11/14/2018 - 2:17pm
I said 1998 New Jersey which was about 70% white.
The best way to build a coalition and consensus is to tell
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 8:33am
those young urban hipsters and young white "progressives" that they are racists.
Not who they're talking about
By tmrozzie
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 9:10am
There weren't a lot of young urban hipsters and white progressives that had Stephen Murphy signs or were part of the Mayor's team of canvassers.
You are in denial.
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 9:34am
Did you read the article? Do you think the people being gentrified out of Roxbury by these same "progressives" view these folks as political allies?
I'm confused
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 10:07am
Is your gripe that Stephen Murphy has a political organization?
At the end of the day, this feeling of entitlement by the candidates- and again it should be noted that they were successful candidates- amazes me. No one handed Murphy his legion of followers. It's an army that's been built up over the decades of the man running for any job available. Greg Henning did get a boost, but not from the Democratic Party. He got the Dan Conley corps to back him. One could think that Rollins won because she had the best ideas, and I don't want to dismiss her vision, but in the end she also built an organization. Henning asked me personally to vote for him early in the game (with Conley 3 feet away) and Rollins had someone come to my house on her behalf. Nika! built her group while Sanchez leaned on the group he built over the years. The party, in primaries, does nothing, and that's the way it should be (other than making sure there is at least one person on the ballot.)
Nope
By tmrozzie
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 12:54pm
This discussion was about the clash between the old pol powerbrokers and the new wave of candidates with lived experience that reflects a huge part of the community. I was one of those people knocking on doors asking voters to consider Rollins. Of course she and NIka built up a huge army of volunteers, because they couldn't have won without working twice as hard as the candidates with institutional support.
And why did Nika have to work twice as hard?
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 2:08pm
It's the power of incumbency.
Rollins was a different case. She worked the hardest and won, but that was a case of needing to stand out in a crowded field. If Carvalho or Henning or anyone else had worked twice as hard as the field, they would have won. Good work on being a part of her organization. It made a difference.
Did anyone actually watch Basic Black?
By tmrozzie
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 12:51pm
Because if you watched it, you'd see that Elugardo and Rollins are specifically talking about lack of party support after they had their respective nominations. Nika is talking about candidates of color used as backdrops for their white counterparts' speeches. Rollins is talking about handing out unified Democratic lit in Roxbury and having only white faces and Ayanna on there.
So yes, a lot of us have litigated the primaries and the lack of support candidates of color received by those in power in a party that relies heavily on voters of color. But it seems like the discussion on WGBH was about the party sidelining these women who had to work twice as hard as their opponents, when they should be embracing them as the face of the future.
But again
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 2:03pm
What kind of support did they need on September 5th? For Elugardo at least, about as much as you and I did.
The backdrop thing does seem to be bad.
But no, I don't watch Basic Black. If it's not geared for kids and on PBS, I don't watch it.
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