Nancy Pelosi Aides
Seek to Drum Up Backing with Supportive Tweets: #StandWithNancy
by Adam Shaw 23 Jun 2017
Aides to
under-fire Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are reportedly sending out suggested
tweets to support her. They have created the hashtag #StandWithNancy —
suggesting that Pelosi is concerned about a leadership challenge in the wake of
the devastating defeat in Georgia this week.
The Democrats were hit by a massive blow to the party
Tuesday when Democrat Jon Ossoff lost the Georgia special election to Karen
Handel, despite tens of millions of donations and celebrity backing. Democrats
had pushed the narrative that the vote was a referendum on Trump’s presidency.
As Democrats lick their wounds in the wake of the defeat,
eyes quickly turned to Pelosi,
with some Democrats openly calling for a change in leadership as they fear
Pelosi is bad for their brand.
Rep. Tim Ryan (R-OH), who challenged Pelosi for the
leadership last year, said
on CNN: “The brand is just bad.”
“I don’t think people in the beltway are realizing just
how toxic the Democratic Party brand is in so many parts of the country,” he
said before pointing to Pelosi as one of the causes for that.
“We need leadership change,” Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) told
CNN.
“It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to go, and the entire leadership team.”
Pelosi defended herself
Thursday, calling herself a “master legislator.”
“Well, I am a master legislator. I am a strategic
politically astute leader. My leadership is recognized by many around the
country, and that is why I am able to attract the support that I do which is
essential to our election, sad to say,” she said.
Now it seems the master legislator may have a new
strategy — drumming up social media support and creating kicky hashtags.
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman
reported late Thursday that aides to Pelosi had sent around suggested tweets,
reminding people of Pelosi’s role getting ObamaCare passed through the House —
just as Republicans were unveiling their health care bill — and attempting to
make the hashtag #StandWithNancy go viral.
The push for #StandWithNancy seemed to be having limited
success as of Friday morning. Former Clinton campaign spokeswoman
Karen Finney was among those tweeting out supportive
messages of Pelosi — although it wasn’t clear how many were inspired by the
tweets sent around from the California Democrat’s office.
Meanwhile, Pelosi’s office retweeted a number of tweets
that included a snazzy graphic featuring Pelosi and the hashtag.
Haberman noted when tweeting the list: “This is an
unusual thing to do if you are indeed unconcerned about a challenge.”
Karen Finney
Karen Finney was
a communications adviser for the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and a board member for the NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Note: NARAL
Pro-Choice America is a national partner with America Votes.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
Cecile Richards
was the founder & president for the America
Votes, a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, Nancy Pelosi’s
deputy chief of staff, is the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Ted
Turner is the chairman for
the Turner Foundation, the founder
of CNN, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Maggie Haberman
is a contributor for CNN, and a reporter
for the New York Times.
Charlayne
Hunter-Gault was a correspondent for CNN,
and a reporter for the New York Times.
Bernard Kalb was a
correspondent for CNN, and a correspondent
for the New York Times.
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a friend of Michael Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and Nancy Pelosi
was invited to his 2013 wedding reception.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the New America Foundation.
Nancy
Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff was Cecile
Richards, was invited to George
Soros’s 2013 wedding reception, Terri
McCullough is her chief of staff, and is the minority leader for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Terri McCullough
is Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff,
and married to Howard Wolfson.
Howard Wolfson is
married to Terri McCullough, was a
partner at the Glover Park Group,
and Michael R. Bloomberg’s adviser.
Glover Park
Group was the lobby firm for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, the Open
Society Policy Center, and is the lobby firm for Bloomberg LP.
Michael R.
Bloomberg’s adviser was Howard
Wolfson, is the founder of Bloomberg
LP, and the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation.
Clark
Hoyt was an editor at large for Bloomberg
LP, and a public editor for the New
York Times.
Walter Isaacson
is a director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Open
Society Policy Center is an advocacy affiliate for the Open Society Foundations.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the Open Society Policy
Center, a global board member for the Open
Society Foundations, George Soros’s
son, a director at the New America
Foundation, and was a vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation.
David B. Brooks
is a director at the New America
Foundation, and ab columnist for the New
York Times.
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