DNC bigwig Rep. Keith Ellison threatens rebel N.Y. state senators with ‘flyswatter’ for breaking ranks
“I do believe you can get more flies with honey than vinegar, but after you give enough honey to the fly, sometimes you've got to plug the fly swatter in,” said Keith Ellison. "I say come home. You're welcome. But if you won't come, you're going to have to be primaried." Ellison said he believes members of the IDC were motivated originally when they ran for Senate "by the noblest of ideals of public service." "But somewhere along the way, you know, it kind of became about power and titles and money," he said. “The IDC has to resolve," Ellison said. "The IDC has to shut it down. The IDC has to stop. The IDC has to get back on the team or they can't be a par tot the team."
IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove ripped Ellison's threats of primaries and hinted that some mainline Dems could face challenges as well. “For a national Democrat who is the deputy chair of the DNC who must share the blame for Democrats losing to Donald Trump to show up in New York and call for Democrats to engage in primaries shows there is something fundamentally wrong with this picture," “His audacity in calling for primaries in New York State must mean that he understands that primaries are not limited to members of the IDC,” Giove said.
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