• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    If you check out the offending appointee, there’s not really anything in her history that suggests she’d be expected to vote like this. Like sure, who knows what beliefs she professed in private vetting, but public information doesn’t look like Biden appointed a risky choice likely to be friendly to big money.

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      5 months ago

      FTA:

      At first blush, Ms. Lindenbaum would seem a surprising apostate for the left. She once marched with Code Pink, the left-wing antiwar group, and later served as a top lawyer for Stacey Abrams, the progressive former candidate for Georgia governor, and her voting-rights group.

      “She came from the progressive community, so I think everyone was caught by surprise,” said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a consumer-advocacy group.

      Pretty surprising, wasn’t like some staffer for a more conservative dem or something, all public indicators were pointing to a progressive person. She also had the support of Bernie Sanders and other progressives, so the people in this comment thread implying omg Biden snuck a conservative onto the FEC are seriously misguided here or didn’t read the article.

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      So if you vote blue, at any time without warning, your chosen candidate could flip and vote opposite of their what their constituents wanted like Sinema and Fetterman did. Manchin was always Manchin but the Democrats ability to run to the right after they get power is staggeringly consistent.