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Common
05-14-2018, 03:12 AM
‘Skank’ and racism charges: Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary gets uglyIt would appear Racism and Sexism isnt just a republican thing. Pitting liberals against each other and out pops the race card and the mysoginist card. The left needs to rip them up and start running on "MERIT"


Florida’s Democratic race for governor has become a debate about race and gender. And it’s getting ugly. The flare-up began Tuesday when an African-American woman who supports Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum called former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham a “skank (https://twitter.com/womenonthemove1/status/993893841316040704)” on Twitter. Graham surrogates then called on Gillum to denounce the comments from his supporter, Leslie Wimes, who amplified the slur Thursday morning in a column she writes for a conservative publication, the Sunshine State News, that bore the headline “Skank, Oh, My (http://sunshinestatenews.com/story/skank-oh-my)!”
By noon, the group EMILY’s List, which backs women abortion-rights Democrats, called on Gillum “to make clear to his supporters that negative, gendered attacks have no place in political discourse.” In its press release, EMILY’S List also criticized Gillum over the primary’s first new negative ad campaign (https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/05/10/graham-trashed-as-phony-progressive-in-first-negative-tv-ad-of-democratic-gubernatorial-race-409604), launched by a pro-black super PAC called The Collective, that casts Graham as a phony progressive.

And that’s when race entered the picture.


“It’s all about race,” Wimes said, noting the difference in EMILY’s List's involvement in this race compared to its neutrality in the 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary when longtime abortion-rights liberal, former state Sen. Nan Rich, ran against former Gov. Charlie Crist, who had been a self-styled “pro-life” Republican before leaving the GOP. Wimes pointed out that, in 2014, Graham ran for Congress as a “very conservative Democrat (http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/north-florida-race-pits-most-vulnerable-republican-congressman-vs/2203543)” and was not the “progressive” that EMILY’s List calls her.


“So when a true progressive runs against a fake Democrat, EMILY’S List does nothing. But when someone who described herself as a ‘very conservative Democrat’ runs against a black man who’s a true progressive, they jumped in waist deep for her,” Wimes said.


EMILY’s List did not respond. Gillum's campaign has said Wimes should have focused on Graham's record.


The controversy involving the two campaigns, their surrogates and two outside political groups added a dose of drama to what until now had been a sleepy Democratic race for governor with at least 40 percent of the electorate undecided.

But the added attention could be unwelcome. While Graham has happily played up her gender — quipping at the first debate last month that it’s “Gwen and the men” — her supporters have fretted about the potential racial animus that could arise by going after Gillum in a Democratic primary, where about a fourth of the registered voters are African-American.

The relations between the two campaigns — both involving Tallahassee politicians — has been sour for months.


Graham’s backers say the latest broadsides against her show that Gillum isn’t the inspirational candidate he pretends to be, but instead is a negative bomb-thrower who’s mired in single digits in the polls. For its part, Gillum’s campaign has blamed Graham’s camp for spreading word that he was under investigation in a City Hall corruption probe that currently is swirling around a city commissioner. And his supporters say it exposes how Graham, known as a friendly serial hugger, isn’t as nice as she lets on.

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/05/10/skank-and-racism-floridas-democratic-gubernatorial-primary-gets-ugly-411446

donttread
05-14-2018, 07:04 AM
‘Skank’ and racism charges: Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary gets ugly

It would appear Racism and Sexism isnt just a republican thing. Pitting liberals against each other and out pops the race card and the mysoginist card. The left needs to rip them up and start running on "MERIT"


Florida’s Democratic race for governor has become a debate about race and gender. And it’s getting ugly. The flare-up began Tuesday when an African-American woman who supports Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum called former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham a “skank (https://twitter.com/womenonthemove1/status/993893841316040704)” on Twitter. Graham surrogates then called on Gillum to denounce the comments from his supporter, Leslie Wimes, who amplified the slur Thursday morning in a column she writes for a conservative publication, the Sunshine State News, that bore the headline “Skank, Oh, My (http://sunshinestatenews.com/story/skank-oh-my)!”
By noon, the group EMILY’s List, which backs women abortion-rights Democrats, called on Gillum “to make clear to his supporters that negative, gendered attacks have no place in political discourse.” In its press release, EMILY’S List also criticized Gillum over the primary’s first new negative ad campaign (https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/05/10/graham-trashed-as-phony-progressive-in-first-negative-tv-ad-of-democratic-gubernatorial-race-409604), launched by a pro-black super PAC called The Collective, that casts Graham as a phony progressive.

And that’s when race entered the picture.


“It’s all about race,” Wimes said, noting the difference in EMILY’s List's involvement in this race compared to its neutrality in the 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary when longtime abortion-rights liberal, former state Sen. Nan Rich, ran against former Gov. Charlie Crist, who had been a self-styled “pro-life” Republican before leaving the GOP. Wimes pointed out that, in 2014, Graham ran for Congress as a “very conservative Democrat (http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/north-florida-race-pits-most-vulnerable-republican-congressman-vs/2203543)” and was not the “progressive” that EMILY’s List calls her.


“So when a true progressive runs against a fake Democrat, EMILY’S List does nothing. But when someone who described herself as a ‘very conservative Democrat’ runs against a black man who’s a true progressive, they jumped in waist deep for her,” Wimes said.


EMILY’s List did not respond. Gillum's campaign has said Wimes should have focused on Graham's record.


The controversy involving the two campaigns, their surrogates and two outside political groups added a dose of drama to what until now had been a sleepy Democratic race for governor with at least 40 percent of the electorate undecided.

But the added attention could be unwelcome. While Graham has happily played up her gender — quipping at the first debate last month that it’s “Gwen and the men” — her supporters have fretted about the potential racial animus that could arise by going after Gillum in a Democratic primary, where about a fourth of the registered voters are African-American.

The relations between the two campaigns — both involving Tallahassee politicians — has been sour for months.


Graham’s backers say the latest broadsides against her show that Gillum isn’t the inspirational candidate he pretends to be, but instead is a negative bomb-thrower who’s mired in single digits in the polls. For its part, Gillum’s campaign has blamed Graham’s camp for spreading word that he was under investigation in a City Hall corruption probe that currently is swirling around a city commissioner. And his supporters say it exposes how Graham, known as a friendly serial hugger, isn’t as nice as she lets on.

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/05/10/skank-and-racism-floridas-democratic-gubernatorial-primary-gets-ugly-411446


I love it when the inevitable happens and PC eats it's own.

MMC
05-14-2018, 10:43 AM
Kind of hard for the Lame Stream to tamp down all the Demo Infighting taking place, huh?