mizjones

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  1. Stay classy. (1 Reply)

    Nuff said

    mizjones   @   May 20, 2012 at 00:05 EST

  2. Broken record (3 Replies)

    Please read some of your own comments and consider how you would feel if they were leveled at you or your candidate. You have become a broken record of epithets.
    You can call standing up for DeFranco “defensive”, I call it standing up for a strong, smart candidate. For all your concern about “tone”, I will throw that one back at you. “Not ready for prime time”, “uncouth”, and “strident” are terms you have used, sometimes multiple times, to describe DeFranco. If this is what you would call a good tone, I say thanks for the suggestions.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 21:58 EST

  3. I was addressing (2 Replies)

    the comment above by whosmindingdemint, who asserted that DeFranco was talking about Warren.
    If DeFranco had introduced the topic of Harvard, you might have a case. She didn’t. Anything she says in answer to a reporter’s question on the topic will be interpreted by Warren supporters as help for Scott Brown. This strikes me as grasping at straws.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 21:12 EST

  4. With attack after attack (1 Reply)

    from people such as you, some of us feel compelled to say something in her defense.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 20:57 EST

  5. That's a stretch (1 Reply)

    DeFranco is not taking any position on the “heritage” question. It is not her job to defend Warren. Warren, who has the inside information, is in a better position to defend her own heritage claims anyway. The only criticism leveled by DeFranco at Warren has been Warren’s slowness in getting in front of the heritage questions. Criticizing an opponent’s campaign tactic sounds like fair game to me.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 17:57 EST

  6. Quoting directly from the Globe story: (2 Replies)

    DeFranco said that, in general, it is commendable for universities to trumpet their hiring of minority professors. But she questioned why Harvard listed Warren as a minority.

    “Come on, you have to look like a person of color,” she said. “You actually have to be a person of color.”

    The context of the story shows DeFranco talking about Harvard, not Warren’s personal statements.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 17:31 EST

  7. You might be surprised (2 Replies)

    at how many activists and independents get turned off by remarks such as yours. If you don’t need them, fine.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 15:00 EST

  8. Read the article (2 Replies)

    DeFranco’s quote is specifically regarding Harvard’s choice to list Warren as a minority, NOT about Warren’s self-declaration. Her criticism was leveled at Harvard.
    I’ll assume that your distortion of intent was accidental, not deliberate.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 14:56 EST

  9. So when DeFranco wins the primary (2 Replies)

    but loses in the general because the Brown campaign drags up all the barbs you have thrown at her, you will declare mea culpa?

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 14:29 EST

  10. The Democratic party (2 Replies)

    is falling so far short of what most people in our country need that suggesting DeFranco for the Green party can be interpreted as a compliment.
    I guess if you think that the issues of jobs, health care funding, and avoidance of war are too daunting to tackle aggressively, with vision, then a candidate who offers bland adjustments to the status quo will do just fine.
    It is ironic that the Democratic party still revers the bold initiatives of FDR and LBJ but sniffs at a candidate who dares to suggest similar boldness today.

    mizjones   @   May 19, 2012 at 14:07 EST

  11. And then there's health care (1 Reply)

    As DeFranco advocates, we need health care not health business. Listen to her recent interview on Emily Rooney’s radio show in which she makes the case for Democrats to push for Medicare for All.

    mizjones   @   May 10, 2012 at 08:58 EST

  12. Textbook economics (1 Reply)

    Without mentioning economist Paul Krugman by name, DeFranco is proposing an approach to job creation that reflects what Krugman has been advocating for two years. See a recent Krugman interview here for a longer, very accessible explanation. As Krugman states, the ideas about strong government intervention to stimulate the economy during a period of high unemployment is textbook macro economics that has been confirmed repeatedly by recent experience.

    Why do mainstream Democrats tiptoe around a solution that should not be controversial and that we desperately need?

    mizjones   @   May 10, 2012 at 08:49 EST

  13. What determines (1 Reply)

    whether an interest rate is reasonable or not? I’m not any kind of expert on the answer, just asking.

    mizjones   @   May 8, 2012 at 10:45 EST

  14. Transparency (0 Replies)

    When a group omits important relevant facts when explaining its positions, I can’t trust it any more.

    mizjones   @   May 6, 2012 at 19:38 EST

  15. I have met many people (1 Reply)

    who never heard of DeFranco but have heard of “what’s her name” (their words) in the mainstream media. You would have to agree that the mainstream media devotes overwhelmingly more coverage to Warren than DeFranco. Beginning in September, even before Warren declared her intention to run, MoveOn, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Credo Mobile created a buzz for the Warren campaign without mentioning that there were other progressive candidates vying for the seat. Surely this helped direct volunteers to Warren. Even if you like the result this time around, you might ask how much influence (as opposed to assistance) you would like the leadership of national-level organizations to have over Massachusetts politics.

    mizjones   @   May 6, 2012 at 13:11 EST

  16. From your comments in this thread (1 Reply)

    it seems that personality is a more important factor to you than policies. If this is not true, I wish you would say more about the latter.

    mizjones   @   May 6, 2012 at 12:37 EST

  17. The similarities (0 Replies)

    are tenacity, hard work, passion, and a very progressive agenda. I’m sorry you don’t like her personality.

    mizjones   @   May 6, 2012 at 12:19 EST

  18. Not suggesting that she's Ghandi (1 Reply)

    but the sequence of ignoring, than calling her “a joke” did fit the behavior of some of her detractors.
    As to Warren’s progressive credentials, I guess that depends on your definition. She’s obviously more progressive than any Republican.
    Rather than playing word games over what is/is not progressive, I hope that the public discussion can shift to the two candidates’ policy proposals and visions for the country, which have important differences. If DeFranco is able to stay in the race, we all will benefit from the discussion.

    mizjones   @   May 6, 2012 at 11:53 EST

  19. Paul Wellstone (1 Reply)

    ran his first US Senate campaign on a shoestring. Being tenacious and having a clear message should not be a liability.

    DeFranco is too smart to feed the GOP talking points. What are they going to do, attack Warren for not being stronger on climate change, single payer health care, bold government programs to create jobs, or civil liberties? I look forward to serious and spirited debate about these issues.

    mizjones   @   May 4, 2012 at 20:36 EST

  20. Any pics from that dinner? (1 Reply)

    “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
    – Mahatma Ghandi

    mizjones   @   May 4, 2012 at 20:17 EST