The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said on Tuesday that it was ending an official policy designed to prevent suppliers and consultants working with primary challengers from doing business with him, although comments from the committee chairman suggested that the policy could remain. an unwritten rule.
Politico reported that the newly elected chairman of the committee, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (DN.Y.), changed on Tuesday to an attack language in an official DCCC questionnaire that specified interested suppliers that ” DCCC will not do business with, or recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant who works with an opponent of an effective member of the House of Democrats. ”
But Maloney himself said last month that the organization will not work with a group that is actively working against a full member – an adjustment to a general policy that has angered progressives who won their seats by defeating moderate members of the Democratic establishment.
“No one should be looking for work around here if they want to go after one of our members at the same time,” said Maloney, according to the news agency. “But I don’t think the general ban ever made sense. And we are going to replace it with a new approach.”
A request for further clarification on the new DCCC policy was not immediately returned.
The news was celebrated by members of the left flank of the party, who argued for years that the blacklist created under former DCCC President Rep. Cheri Bustos
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“We have primaries to ensure that we have the best and the brightest at each party,” MP Marie Newman (D-Ill.) Told Politico. “So the primaries should not be overwhelmed by outside forces.”
“It is a huge victory”, added Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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