re: #325 Targetpractice

Here’s the thing for me: If we want to be a national party again, guys like Mello will be how we get there. Part of having a big tent is you have to let people in that don’t fit a certain mold. We can’t beat the GOP by becoming them, no matter how much that may appeal to some.

All that said, Bernie Sanders has no place being the arbiter of anything in the party. The man is the worst sort of hypocrite and his tendency to support people who otherwise would draw his suppoters ire convinces me that he’s selling his endorsements. It may not be for money, it may be for influence or power, but the man is getting something in return for supporting men like Mello.

Well, I don’t know what influence Sanders could get by supporting a mayoral candidate in Omaha, but Mello is the only Democrat running.

The Democratic Party (as they did in the KS-4 election) is mostly ignoring the race. One thing’s for sure, if the Democrats ignore Democrats running but Sanders doesn’t ignore them, Sanders gets influence with the local voters.

Maybe if the Democratic Party would be interested in supporting (even with a simple endorsement) an actual Democrat running for a major city’s mayoral office …

What will remain with the voters here regardless of how the Mello/Stothert race comes out is that Sanders supported him, not the Democratic Party.