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California Democrats Abandon Ami Bera

California Democrats are abandoning their colleague Ami Bera in the middle of the Democrats’ “civil war” over trade. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka admitted labor unions are making an example of Ami Bera, saying, “Those that stand with corporate entitlements are members we’ll know.”

Even other Democrats are hesitant to defend Bera. Senator Dianne Feinstein “refuses to defend” Bera despite voting the same way as Bera. Representative Brad Sherman wouldn’t tell labor unions to lay off the attacks. He said, “Labor is labor, they have members, they have to do what they think is the best for him.”

Capital Public Radio reports that a primary challenge is “expected” and now Bera’s party is leaving him out on his own.

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Local Labor Organization Wants Replacement Of California Democrat With No “Backbone”

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Rep. Ami Bera’s (CA-07) trade headache continues after being attacked last week by the AFL-CIO with a television ad criticizing his stance on fast-track authority and the TPP. The union leaders apparently don’t care if Democrats lose the seat. Meanwhile, Bera is blaming “special interests” for “bullying” him on the issue.

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I’m just trying to avoid political suicide [on TPP].

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Will Ami Bera Condemn Loretta Sanchez’s “War Cry?”

Last Saturday, Democrat Ami Bera was the “top host on the invitation” for the event where Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez made her Native American “war cry” gesture, according to The Los Angeles Times. 

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Will Bera stand up against the shocking gesture made by Sanchez or remain silent on her insulting actions?

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FactCheck.org Calls Newest House Majority PAC Ad “Moldy Baloney”

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Looks like House Majority PAC is at it again. Last week, the Democrat PAC released an ad attacking Republican Doug Ose, who is challenging Democrat Rep. Ami Bera in California’s 7th district, for voting “to slash veterans’ benefits by $15 billion.” FactCheck.org, however, picked apart the PAC’s claim, calling it “some 11-year-old baloney”:

A Democratic PAC is serving up some 11-year-old baloney in an attempt to keep ex-House member Doug Ose from returning to Congress. … The ad says, “Congressman Doug Ose voted to slash veterans’ benefits by $15 billion.” But what the ad refers to – cited in the fine print on screen – is a vote Ose cast on March 21, 2003, for a nonbinding budget resolution that actually proposed a 5.4 percent increase in new spending authority for veterans’ benefits and services for fiscal year 2004, which was to start several months later on Oct. 1.

Whoops. FactCheck.org also shot down House Majority PAC’s additional claim that Ose “voted to increase his own pay.” Not so, according to fact checkers:

He [Ose] didn’t. There was no vote on congressional pay in 2003, the year the ad claims Ose supported a pay raise. In fact, in April of that year the wealthy Ose, a multimillionaire developer, introduced a bill to repeal automatic annual cost-of-living increases for members of Congress.

Stop it, House Majority PAC. Just stop it.

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