13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
contrast. i understand the abortion messaging. and for so many democratic candidates it s a lot easier to talk about abortion. we can sit down and write a 32nd ad, brought an email explaining how and why we care about this. i see a lot of people struggling with an economic contrast. which in my mind is easy. but many democrats have not been willing to make a forceful economic contrast. for a better part of the year voters have been saying it s a dumb one issue on their mind. by the mway abortion is economic issues. as well, yeah to put in addition to it abortion be an economic issue, you could talk about what you want to do to talk about peoples increase food cross, grocery bills, fuel costs you want to take it to corporate wrongdoers who s trying to prey upon. you these guys on the right, they are in their pocket, they are the people who are funding their campaign ads, they aren t going to do anything about it. we stand with workers. we stand with consumers who are getting the shaft