EMILY's List

This week, EMILY's List dropped a last minute $17,441 into an independent expenditure for the extremely conservative candidate they're supporting in Honolulu, Donna Mercado Kim.

Three of the four Hawaii state senators who voted against marriage equality last year: Mike Gabbard, Donna Kim, Sam SlomLast Thursday night, backward and reactionary congressional candidate Donna Kim told PBS Hawaii viewers she opposes marriage equality based on her Catholic faith.

EMILY's List has a reputation for being the dirtiest players in politics-- as bad or worse than the Republican sociopaths employed by the Kochs and Adelson. The difference is that the man-haters at EMILY's List don't deploy their vicious nature against Republicans or against conservative Democrats-- only against progressive men in office. Especially Jewish progressive men in office.EMILY's List was once an essential part of the progressive coalition.

This is from EMILY's List Australia. The U.S. version wouldn't use "progressive" or "passionate"The Lamest Operation in Americaby Anonymous OperativeThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Yesterday, one of the least progressive organizations working on behalf of Democrats, EMILY's List, sent out an e-mail to their followers-- most of whom are convinced that EMILY's List is still a thorpughly progressive outfit as it was years ago-- entitled "Elizabeth Warren's Footsteps." They are attempting to raise money, primarily to pay their own bloated salaries, but also to push their awful, conservative candidates, like New Dem Colleen Hanabusa, who they are running

Even if you don't remember EMILY's List's disgraceful foray into anti-Semitic politics in their ill-fated attempt, in 2008, to replace lifelong progressive-- and pro-Choice militant-- Steve Cohen (D-TN) with a conservative woman, Nikki Tinker, EMILY's List jihad against pro

Steve Israel to 25 DCCC field organizers in Florida: "Get out of Dodge, STAT!"I was surprised to wake up the morning after the FL-13 debacle and find a comment by an Alex Sink field volunteer on our election night coverage post. She started by asserting that the field director "was a pompous drunk, who held no-one anymore accountable than he did himself.

This morning, Brian Schatz added another grassroots progressive group to his growing list of endorsers. The PCCC came out strongly in favor of Schatz's campaign after their local members voted 4 to 1 in favor of the organization endorsing Brian over New Dem Colleen Hanabusa. They cited Social Security as the "defining issue" in the race and in their decision.

Last night a dull, uninspiring centrist advocating the politics of Beltway centrism-- despite the focus-group-tested message in the ad above (the last one run by the doomed Alex Sink campaign)-- was defeated by a weak and generic Republican lobbyist. Sink was defeated on election day by poorer-than-expected turnout among Democrats and left-leaning independents, after a surprisingly decent showing in early voting. Lots of TV ads do not make up for a weak message (Chained CPI, for example) and a weaker ground game.

)Earlier this evening David Jolly beat Alex Sink 88,294 (48.43%) to 84,877 (46.56%), with Libertarian Lucas Overby taking 8,799 (4.83%).This morning, PPP reported that the Democrats reclaimed the lead in the generic 2014 congressional ballot, 43-40% after being down below generic Republicans by 2 points in the last survey. "Congressional Democrats have poor approval numbers, at a 35/56 spread, but that puts them far ahead of Congressional Republicans who come in at 23/67.