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Sandra Fluke Passes on U.S. House Bid, Aims for California State Senate

2014-02-06

[MEDIAITE] Just hours after filing paperwork with the intention of seeking the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democratic Party's endorsement to replace retiring 20-term Rep. Henry Waxman
...the funny-looking Democrat Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia. First elected in 1975, his estimated retirement date is 2075 or maybe later...
(D-CA), Democratic activist Sandra Fluke announced on Tuesday that she was passing on that opportunity and aiming instead to be elected to the state Senate.

"I am extremely moved by the outpouring of local and national support I have received since I announced that I was considering running for office," Fluke said in a statement released late Tuesday night. "While I strongly considered offering my candidacy for Congress, I feel there is a better way for me to advance the causes that are important to our community."

Hidden in all the foolishness known as Sandra Fluke is that there's a model of party control and governance at work here.

The Democrats work very hard on cultivating a deep, deep bench of activists, and have done so for decades. It comes out of the machine politics from the mid 19th century on. You grab them young and develop them. Some of them flame out, some of them lose interest, some of them are so goofy that the leadership abandons them, but some of them, cultivated for a long, long time, pay off. A few pay off big.

Barack Obama: a nobody. But some folks took an interest in him (either in his early Chicago days or even before when he was at Columbia) and started grooming him. The Chicago machine helped as did the Ayers/Chicago radical machine. Obama got press time, information, tips, appointments to various boards, a shot at state senator, and so on. Did anyone think back in the early 90s that he was going to be president? No, not really, but they cultivated him.

Elizabeth Warren: a nobody, graduate of a lower tier law school, a dense and pedantic lawyer and policy advocate. But she was groomed, aided, given jobs, given opportunities, and boom -- now she's Senator Pedantic.

Sandra Fluke is a nobody. Follow her career to date and you'll see the guiding hands of the progressive Left grooming her. She's been a feminist, an 'activist' and a law student (where did she get the money for that, I wonder). She'll be prepped and prepared until the day comes when she cashes in. Ms. Fluke's "career", as you would have to call it at this point, needs more of that cultivation. She's not quite ready for the big time of 'Congresswoman Fluke', though given some of the clowns the Dems have put in those seats you have to wonder. But if she sits in the state senate for a decade or so, builds a lot of connections and chits, and waits her turn, then she can get a seat in Congress. Or run for state-wide office. Or she can get a safe, high-paying NGO job at some point to build her financial portfolio (no Reynolds revolving door tax, alas) and her Rolodex. Then back to government. Maybe a spot high in DHHS if Hillary wins.

Remember, this is how Democrats play the game. It's one of the things the Open Society, foundation, union and NGO folks do best -- find and groom people who can then be put into elected office or political appointed office. Who then do as they're, er, asked, to do.

Look for the pattern in these progressive apparatchiks. The nomenklatura has been grooming them.

Posted by:Fred

#3 Remember, this is how Democrats play the game. It's one of the things the Open Society, foundation, union and NGO folks do best -- find and groom people who can then be put into elected office or political appointed office. Who then do as they're, er, asked, to do.

Lenin would be proud.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-02-06 17:22

#2 Look for the pattern in these progressive apparatchiks. The nomenklatura has been grooming them.

Which is why the Norwegian mass murderer couldn't be white washed as mentally ill to get around the legal limits on incarceration. He knew and explained that system was exactly what he was attacking when he committed the crime. He made a cold calculated plan to disrupt the process and the willingness to pay the price to do so. While here he would fry, there he'll sit out the time. Must be one of those little nightmares in the subconscious of the Left in their unending pursuit to disarm America.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-06 07:17

#1 I didn't know the Congressional health plan did not give unlimited birth control coverage.

Learn something every day...

Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-06 00:47

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