In a major win for progressives, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey has defeated Congressmember Joe Kennedy III in the Democratic Senate primary. Neal benefited from a homophobic smear campaign that targeted Morse, the openly gay mayor of the city of HolyokeThe original content of this program is licensed under a Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now!
Declaring victory Tuesday night with a 10-point lead over Kennedy, Markey, 74, shouted out the young voters and activists who fueled his campaign with on-the-ground organizing and social media efforts, including the production of "This campaign has always been about the young people of this country," Markey said in a speech to supporters in his hometown of Malden. In his remarks to campaign staff, Kennedy said Tuesday's results were obviously not what he had hoped for, but he was proud to have had a team that he said would be the future of the Democratic Party. There was no massive movement on the outside, but we had power on the inside, and we used it.
We’re going to be submitting amendments that ensure that bill has aggressive renewable energy resource and energy efficiency standards, and that there are higher and stronger standards for federal renewable energy procurement. "The Sunrise Movement—the first national organization to endorse the senator's reelection campaign—celebrated Markey's victory as a testament to the growing power of youth-led climate activism in Massachusetts and across the United States.
The language [of the resolution] doesn’t mention those technologies or policies, but people seem to have read exclusion into that silence. He made it quite clear that his top priority is to begin repeal of fossil fuel tax breaks and to substitute clean energy tax breaks. The senator says the resolution has sparked a wave of education and interest, drawing in other members of Congress (he cites Ron Wyden, raking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee) and shifting poll numbers among Democratic primary voters. One Republican called it … [laughs] And it’s in response to the incredible national conversation that has erupted since the day we introduced the Green New Deal.
It’s only going to continue.Since the Green New Deal resolution was introduced, a flood of “moderates” have scolded it and thrown cold water on it from op-ed pages. We need a movement to rise up to demand that the system — top to bottom, federal, state, local government, private sector — respond.
Ultimately, the question isn’t whether every Democrat supports every aspect of the Green New Deal.
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The Green New Deal is educating the whole country on what has already happened and what is technologically feasible and implementable if we put the right policies in place. "There is no time for simply 'doing what we can.'
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