The author wouldn’t identify the brewery, so I have.
It’s an excellent profile of Dan Canon, man and candidate — and I promise not to mention the local DemoDisneyDixiecratic Party’s right-wing assault on public housing … not even once.
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Is This Indiana Civil Rights Lawyer the Great Progressive Hope of 2018?, by Michael Powell (Vice)
Dan Canon is suing Trump, calling out white supremacy, and running for Congress. But can he win?
Less than a day after announcing his campaign for Congress in the parking lot of a brewery near his New Albany, Indiana, home, Dan Canon stood on a bench on a well-trafficked pedestrian bridge over the Ohio River telling anyone who would listen why they deserved healthcare. Some kept walking, some stopped to join in the growing circle around him.
“Healthcare is your right, and you have to assert that right. You get a small group of people that believe that and it spreads. If we tell our elected representatives we [have that right], well, they’re not doing their jobs,” he told them in his role as a political busker. “So what do you do? You fire them!”
That’s the sort of personalized campaign Canon is running to flip Indiana’s Ninth District from red to blue. The progressive civil rights attorney is one of the most fascinating midterm House candidates in the country, a longtime advocate for causes ranging from gay marriage to immigration to cannabis who spends his free time acting in community theater, playing in bands, and marching in protests. If he can get into Congress, it’ll be proof for a lot of leftists that yes, their preferred candidates really can win.
He has his work cut out for him: In 2016 Donald Trump won the district by 27 points and Republican Congressman Trey Hollingsworth beat his Democratic opponent by 14 after moving from Tennessee in 2015 …
This important point remains:
The incumbent Hollingsworth has one advantage over any eventual Democratic opponent—he’s one of the wealthiest members of Congress, with almost $60 million in assets. Canon says his advantage will come through optics and lived experience. “You have people like Trey Hollingsworth who come to a district as an outsider millionaire with multi-generation wealth and doesn’t understand living paycheck to paycheck, doesn’t understand making the choice between paying for health insurance and paying the rent, or scrounging for change in the couch to buy a Big Mac,” Canon told me. “These are things that I’ve actually experienced, and I think gives me a point of identification with lots of other people. Very few if any candidates at an office this size understand those very real problems because of the prevalence of money in politics… It’s difficult for working-class folks to run for office.”
Hollingsworth is a plutocratic carpetbagger, and I’d say the same thing if the situation occurred in reverse, and it was a Democrat from Massachusetts.
Just one more quote.
“[Dan’s] message focuses a lot on fighting for individuals. It manifests itself in different issues, but he’s articulating a vision that goes deeper than what previous candidates have had to offer.”
The speaker is none other than multi-chairman spider web spinner Adam “Boy Wonder” Dickey, and after one wades painfully past the robotic code language, there’s a grain of unintended truth.
Not only is Canon running against Republicans outside the Democratic Party, but also the ones within it — and not only Washington County’s implanted Falangist.
Another of Adam Dickey’s hilarious DemoDisneyDixiecratic shit shows provides timely comic relief.
Those progressive themes Canon repeats aloud?
Try imagining Jeff Gahan uttering any of them, privately or publicly. More bluntly, the only future hope for Dickey’s local DemoDisneyDixiecrats is that Canon wins, and the party is reshaped by younger, more progressive activists — and this phenomenon, should it occur, would transform Jeff Gahan into Doug Leatherbury.
Or is it the other way around?
