[Peace-discuss] Primary election day

[David Johnson]

They're both equally fucked up on that issue, and in addition the Republicans are worse in regards to austerity and attacks on Unions and social programs.

David J.

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From: C G Estabrook [mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:17 AM
To: David Johnson
Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Primary election day

But with Russiagate, the Democrats are probably more dangerous on war.


> On Mar 21, 2018, at 7:05 AM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Neither will the Republicans.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: C G Estabrook [mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:18 PM
> To: David Johnson
> Cc: peace; Peace-discuss List (peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net)
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Primary election day
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> We probably should do what we can to prevent the Democrats’ taking control of the House. They won’t use it well.
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> 
>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 10:10 PM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Can't say that I agree with your analysis about Davis Carl, but what seems almost certain is that with the election of Londrigan and Pritzger, we will have two more years of Davis and 4 more years of Rauner.
>> I will be voting for none of the above in the 13th Congressional race and the Governor's race.
>> 
>> David J.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:04 PM
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>> Cc: peace
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Primary election day
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>> Both the only anti-war candidate, David Gill, and the candidate of the 'intelligence community' [CIA et al.], pro-war Jon Ebel, seem to have been beaten in today's election for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Illinois' 13th Congressional district (with about 14% of the vote, each).
>> 
>> But the winner, DNC candidate Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, is pro-war - and should be opposed. It seems the only way to do that is to support (and vote for) the Republican incumbent, Rodney Davis.
>> 
>> Davis' predecessor, Republican Tim Johnson, was elected as a pro-war candidate. (I ran against him as a Green.) But in office, Tim changed his mind, and went so far as to join a suit against the illegal invasion of Libya.
>> 
>> Given that we must oppose the Democratic party's continuing hysterical war provocations against Russia (and China) - from 'Russiagate on - AWARE should support Davis against a pro-war Democrat and urge him to follow his predecessor's example.
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>> —CGE
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