#campaign-messaging

#campaign-messaging

Smerconish took issue during his Saturday show a video New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) made recently outside of billionaire Ken Griffin's New York penthouse while pushing for a tax on luxury second homes in the state. The video led to billionaire Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth calling out the mayor and going viral for comparing such tax the rich rhetoric to some disgusting racial slurs. I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich' quote, tax the rich when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, Roth said, a comment heavily debated on cable news on Saturday.

The race for California governor has been a low-boil, late-developing affair, noteworthy mostly for its lack of a whole lot that has been noteworthy. That changed a bit on a sunny Saturday in San Francisco, the contest assuming a smidgen of campaign heat—chanting crowds, sign-waving supporters, call-and-response from the audience—as the state party held its annual convention in this bluest of cities.

Most major US cities spend WAY TOO MUCH on police departments to police poverty & WAY TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, & housing to eliminate poverty. Fixing that is what the #Defund movement is about, declared Abdul El-Sayed in 2020. The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people, read another one of the thousands of tweets deleted by the progressive Democrat, who was also a CNN contributor at one point.

Campaigners need to change the way they talk about child poverty to counter far-right narratives and harness public energy for action, charities have warned. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Save the Children will on Wednesday launch a practical guide for campaigners, saying that although the third sector, politicians and the media talk frequently about the urgency of tackling child poverty, bolstered with alarming facts, the way we talk about it doesn't always help.