Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-Miss.) pushed back on the idea that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) personally recruited him to run for Senate, saying the people of Mississippi deserve the credit for his upset victory.
“He did initially understand that our party has to look south for future leadership,” Colom told MS NOW’s Symone Sanders Townsend in an interview that aired Thursday. “I think that it’s not accurate to say he recruited me, though.”
“I push back on the idea that I was recruited, not as a disrespect to anybody, but just as an acknowledgement that the people of Mississippi are the folks that deserve the credit,” he added.
Nice try, Chuck. You just lost yourself another vote. Keep it going.
For the last week I have been hearing nothing but Dem leadership loudly take credit for victories in the South, even as those same voices conveniently leave out those they could have helped but did not, such as Angie Nixon in Florida who could have overcome her narrow margin loss with just a little help.
But for anyone who follows Stacey Abrams, AOC and Bernie, and other organizers, you already know that these loud people snatching up victory like it was their own actually had little to nothing to do with it.
It was our rage, and our votes, and organizers, activists, and everyday people on the ground fighting uphill battles every step of the way to get the vote out.
Scott Colom is 100% right: it is the voters of his state, and every state, that lifted him and other progressives up past all the high bars and countless obstacles, large and small, placed in their way to keep them from even casting a vote to begin with . . . but he should not have been the first to say it on the national stage.
Fuck Schumer, and fuck Jeffries. May Van Hollen win Senate Majority Leader, and may Ayanna Pressley throw her hat in the ring for Speaker of the House. This out-of-touch credit-snatching lying bullshit from Dems in power has to stop.
It reminds me how Schumer, Hochul, and the rest all talked shit about Mamdani when he was running, but they ALL showed up to his inauguration to bask in his glory anyway.
It’s almost like Israeli/billionaire propaganda is trying to control the narrative and maintain the criminally-corrupt-traitor status quo?
I rarely post, but I did a few days ago about the anti-progressive propaganda inundating reddit threads here: https://lemmy.world/post/54189579
Just another in his collection of thousands of self serving lies
