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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNancy Pelosi backs Dan Lipinski for re-election despite his opposition to abortion
[link:Nancy Pelosi backs Dan Lipinski for re-election despite his opposition to abortion|Washington Examiner]:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday she supports Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., and his bid for re-election, even as other Democrats have said they oppose him because he opposes legal abortion.
"Yes, I do," Pelosi told reporters at the end of her weekly press conference Thursday when asked if she supports him.
Lipinski's position on abortion has drawn opposition from progressive and pro-abortion lawmakers such as Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., both of whom have endorsed his primary challenger, Marie Newman. Lipinski has not been endorsed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Despite her own pro-choice stance, Pelosi does not have a litmus test on the issue when it comes to members in her own party. In an interview last year, Pelosi and the DCCC said there is room in the party for pro-choice Democrats like Lipinski.
"Yes, I do," Pelosi told reporters at the end of her weekly press conference Thursday when asked if she supports him.
Lipinski's position on abortion has drawn opposition from progressive and pro-abortion lawmakers such as Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., both of whom have endorsed his primary challenger, Marie Newman. Lipinski has not been endorsed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Despite her own pro-choice stance, Pelosi does not have a litmus test on the issue when it comes to members in her own party. In an interview last year, Pelosi and the DCCC said there is room in the party for pro-choice Democrats like Lipinski.
I'm going to speculate that this is primarily a matter of supporting incumbents on the grounds that the primary funding source for DCCC is dues from incumbent House members, and suggesting that DCCC won't stand by their members could put funding at risk in en election cycle with a major opportunity to take back House control.
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Nancy Pelosi backs Dan Lipinski for re-election despite his opposition to abortion (Original Post)
brooklynite
Mar 2018
OP
Well I don't agree with this, but I don't expect to agree with the party all the time.
redstatebluegirl
Mar 2018
#1
Perhaps Republican Lipinski voters in the district will vote in their own Republican primary now
Freethinker65
Mar 2018
#5
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)1. Well I don't agree with this, but I don't expect to agree with the party all the time.
I am hoping he does not get reelected.
marybourg
(12,650 posts)2. Don't agree and have been
writing postcards supporting Newman.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)4. I sent money to Newman.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,110 posts)3. What do Democrats stand for if not women's reproductive rights?
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)5. Perhaps Republican Lipinski voters in the district will vote in their own Republican primary now
Racist Ives is currently sending dog whistle anti-Rauner packets to suburban addresses, which also might entice Republicans to request their own Republican Primary ballot instead of a Democratic one.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)6. Last Tuesday local Democrats elected a candidate
who is against abortion but said the decision should not be the government's.
It's crucial that Democratic officeholders REPRESENT THEIR VOTERS in general. Most have local constituencies only, and what those people care about matters.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)7. "pro-choice Democrats like Lipinski."?