MORNING MESSAGE
If
[Zephyr] Teachout holds on to that three-point lead and overcomes [John] Faso’s
Super PAC money, she will not only be an example of how small-donor campaigns
can triumph over corporate cash in swing districts. She will also be a case
study of how progressive populists can use a combination of policy detail and
political jiu-jitsu to beat back right-wing attacks.
KKK TRIES TO SWAY ELECTION
KKK
embraces Trump. Mother Jones: “The KKK quarterly The Crusader (‘The Premier
Voice Of The White Resistance’) devoted its latest front page to a throaty
defense of Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan … [KKK leader Pastor
Thomas] Robb stopped short of calling it a formal endorsement … The Trump
campaign … issued a statement denouncing the paper.”
“White
nationalists plot Election Day show of force” reports Politico: “The
National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white
nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to watch polls,
either ‘informally’ or, they say, through the Trump campaign. The Oath Keepers,
a group of former law enforcement and military members that often shows up in
public heavily armed, is advising members to go undercover and conduct
‘intelligence-gathering’ at polling places, and Donald Trump ally Roger Stone is
organizing his own exit polling, aiming to monitor thousands of precincts across
the country.”
BACKLASH AGAINST SCHUMER, RYAN
“Liberals
wary of Schumer tax plan” reports The Hill: “Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.)
ideas for overhauling the tax system are encountering skepticism on the left …
viewing them as too favorable to corporations at a time when populist sentiment
is running high … Schumer has floated the idea of ‘deemed repatriation’ for
corporate earnings outside the U.S. and a minimum tax on future foreign earnings
regardless of whether they are repatriated. While Schumer has not specified the
rates he would like to see for those taxes, he has suggested they should be
lower than 35 percent … opposition from the left is unlikely to deter Schumer,
who has shown a willingness to take on the liberal base in the past.”
House
Freedom Caucus plots post-election strategy. Politico: “Top members of the
House Freedom Caucus will hold a rare, pre-election strategy session in
Washington on Wednesday to chart the group’s moves in November and beyond. One
of the most pressing questions preoccupying Washington is what the group will do
about Paul Ryan…”
PRESSURE TO SHAPE CLINTON CABINET
Congressional
people of color press Clinton for diverse cabinet. The Hill: “The
congressional Hispanic, Asian and black caucuses recently held separate meetings
with Clinton’s transition team to put forward names of minority candidates for
Cabinet and high-ranking administration posts … Former Interior Secretary Ken
Salazar, who is heading the transition team, attended some of those meetings …
Here are some of the names the so-called Tri-Caucus … has floated…”
WP
edit board slams progressives for trying to shape Clinton cabinet: ” Ms.
Clinton is being told, apparently, to apply a series of litmus tests to her
potential nominees … The advance veto on future nominees that Ms. Warren and
Mr. Sanders are seeking, if carried to its logical extreme, would make them de
facto usurpers of presidential power.”
BERNIE FLEXES MUSCLE
Bernie
Sanders opposes MA ballot initiative to greatly increase number of charter
schools. Boston Herald quotes: “Wall Street must not be allowed to hijack
public education in Massachusetts.”
Sanders
calls out drug company for price gouging. The Hill: “Eli Lilly’s stock
dropped nearly 2 percentage points after Sanders criticized the rising price of
the company’s Humalog brand insulin, citing a Washington Post report on soaring
costs of the diabetes drug.”
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