The Rainbow Conspiracy part 15 here In 2013 Gregg Abbott stated that Battleground Texas represented a greater threat than North Korea; he called Texas the ‘last line of defense’ against a Democratic presidential victory. He was right. Leftist El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke is snapping at the heals of Republican
The Rainbow Conspiracy part 15 here
In 2013 Gregg Abbott stated that Battleground Texas represented a greater threat than North Korea; he called Texas the ‘last line of defense’ against a Democratic presidential victory. He was right.
Battleground Texas via BattlegroundTexas.com
Leftist El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke is snapping at the heals of Republican Senator Ted Cruz in this year’s Texas US Senate race. What should have been a 15 point romp for Cruz, is now way too close for comfort.
What’s happening? Partially it’s O’Rourke’s totally committed campaigning style, partially it’s a fired up Democratic base, and partially it’s too much Republican complacency. But also, its the same reason the GOP lost Virginia and may possibly lose Arizona, Georgia, and Florida as early as this election cycle.
Wealthy leftist donors have been funding mass voter registration efforts among minority voters and felons in the South and Southwest in hope of eventually gutting the GOP’s soft underbelly. Stealth socialist San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips and his Democracy Alliance partners Tom Steyer and George Soros have played a major role in this enterprise, and turning Texas blue is their ultimate prize.
Steve Phillips is working with two main groups: Texas Organizing Project and Battleground Texas.
Founded in 2013 with a blaze of publicity, Battleground Texas aims to harvest the huge reservoir of non-voting Black and Latino voters for Democratic candidates.
The stated goal of the group is to mobilize Democrats and Democratic-leaning constituencies that currently vote at lower-than-average rates – a costly and time-intensive organizing challenge in a state as big as Texas…supportive Democrats said they expected to raise funds well into the seven-figure range over several years, in order to support a sustained organizing effort.
Aimee Boone, a Planned Parenthood official and Democratic strategist…said Battleground Texas leaders have made the pitch that “we can make Texas competitive in the 2020 race, and in the meantime we’re going to compete in every election.”
In 2013 Battleground Texas hosted a fundraiser at Netroots Nation in San Jose .
Burnt Orange Report Editor-in-Chief Katherine Haenschen spoke first, talking about the great work Battleground is already doing and how turning Texas blue will change the country by making it very difficult for Republicans to win presidential elections. Jeremy Bird, Senior Adviser to Battleground Texas, then laid out Battleground’s strategy.
Battleground will compete all over Texas. That means all areas of the state – including the ones where the Democratic vote needs to be 35 percent instead of 27 percent. It will do so through greatly expanded voter registration (they’ve already trained thousands of people to do so), specific community outreach including a Latino-specific program coming later this year, and grooming capable candidates of seizing the opportunity to take office. Battleground’s strategy is designed for the long haul, and Bird reminded everyone that Battleground will stay until Texas turns blue.
In 2013 there were 1.5 million unregistered Hispanic Texans, 500,000 unregistered African Americans, and 200,000 unregistered Asians in Texas. There were more Hispanic Texans in Houston’s Harris County than Nevada and Colorado combined.
Getting these people to the polls, cycle after cycle, is the key to turning Texas blue. And if Texas goes blue so does America. These are the stakes Battleground Texas is playing for.
“If you could get people to turn out at a rate that reflects their percentage of the electorate … we’d be neck-and-neck right now,” said Julie Martinez Ortega, Senior Advisor to the Democracy Alliance Latino Engagement Fund, and President of Steve Phillips’ PowerPAC+.
Battleground Texas was founded by two senior organizers from the Obama Presidential campaigns, Jeremy Bird and Jenn Brown.
Here Jeremy Bird explains Battleground Texas’ goals in his own words:
Jeremy Bird served as the national field director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama. Dubbed the campaign’s “field general” by Rolling Stone, Jeremy was included on the magazine’s list of “The Obama Campaign’s Real Heroes.” He is credited with helping to establish a ground game and turnout machine that in 2012, “reproduced through brute force, dedication and will a turnout in the swing states that in some cases bested the campaign’s remarkable performance of four years ago.”
Bird is also a 2014 graduate of Rockwood Leadership Institute, which is is close to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Rockwood’s program manager Lauren Veasey is a Stanford University alumni and serves on the board of Steve Phillips’ PowerPAC+.
Battleground Texas’ co-founder Jenn Brown is much more directly connected to Steve Phillips.
Jenn Brown, Battleground Texas
In 2008, Brown was Minnesota state director for the Obama campaign. She then managed nine states during the 2010 midterm election cycle as an organizer with Organizing for America.
