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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2019 17:46:35 GMT
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is pitching herself as Democrats’ top anti-war voice and a serious progressive in her bid for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. But even as she spent years decrying American military interventions abroad and money’s role in politics, as a congresswoman she accepted donations worth more than $100,000 from the country’s biggest producers of bombs, planes and weapons systems.
Regular contributions from companies including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and BAE Systems poured in between 2012 (the year she was first elected) and 2016, according to a HuffPost review of donations to Gabbard’s campaign account and political action committee. (Federal Election Commission filings for the two organizations are publicly available and organized by the Center for Responsive Politics.)
The congresswoman said in May 2017 that she had “recently” stopped accepting money from the defense industry and would no longer accept political action committee largesse. Her total income from the arms industry by that point had hit $111,500, with weapons producers Boeing and Lockheed Martin featuring as her ninth and 12th biggest donors, respectively, in the 2016 election cycle. (Firms cannot directly donate to candidates; the figures reported are those from the weapons companies’ political action committees, funded by their employees.)
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2019 17:47:28 GMT
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) fired back at ABC's Meghan McCain as someone "clamoring for regime change wars" on Friday, just two days after a contentious exchange on "The View" that included the co-host calling the 2020 presidential hopeful "an Assad apologist."
Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran who officially announced her White House candidacy last month, took her ire toward McCain to Twitter after the debate between the two regarding Gabbard's controversial 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad went viral.
During an appearance on Wednesday's "The View," McCain forcefully questioned Gabbard on why she would meet with Assad.
"You have said that the Syrian president, Assad, is not the enemy of the United States,” McCain said. “Yet he’s used chemical weapons against his own people 300 times, that was a red line with President Obama. That is not our enemy? Thirteen million Syrians have been displaced."
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2019 17:33:43 GMT
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s quixotic run for the White House isn’t sticking to a normal presidential campaign travel schedule. Gabbard, a four-term House Democrat from Hawaii, traveled to Chicagoland soon after entering the 2020 race to visit the Chicago Kali Bari House of Spirituality and Worship before proceeding to Iowa. In early March, she scheduled a foreign policy speech at Brown University in Rhode Island and visited Love City Brewing Company in Philadelphia. And as Gabbard jumped into the presidential campaign this winter, she was listed as a headliner for a summit of environmental activists on an island owned by Sir Richard Branson. (Gabbard’s campaign later said she planned on Skyping the conference instead.) The underdog Democratic candidate has dropped into early caucus and primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and on Friday, Gabbard’s campaign announced a pair of town halls in Nevada. But Gabbard, who is Hindu, has focused more on stopping in communities with large South Asian communities in states with less 2020 influence — a scattershot approach that calls into question whether Gabbard and her noninterventionist foreign policy can make a mark on the 2020 race. “She does not seem to be following the lockstep early-state cadence,” said veteran Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth.
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2019 18:24:58 GMT
President Trump isn’t the only Republican blowhard capable of pulling political boners. On Thursday, it was Ann Coulter’s turn as she adamantly — and incorrectly — identified Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as a U.S. senator. Responding to a fellow Twitter user with the classy handle of Catturd2, who referred to the 38-year-old Democratic presidential hopeful as a “better-looking Nancy Pelosi,” Coulter replied, “Tulsi is a SENATOR, meaning she’s in the SENATE and doesn’t vote on HOUSE resolutions.” It’s possible that 57-year-old Coulter was confusing Gabbard, who is of Samoan descent, with Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono, who is Japanese-American.
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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2019 3:55:50 GMT
When Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was on The View earlier this year, Meghan McCain called her an “Assad apologist” who is “spouting propaganda from Syria.” After Hillary Clinton insinuated that the Russians were “grooming” Gabbard to run on a third-party ticket, Joy Behar called her a “useful idiot.” The 2020 candidate, who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to The View for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confronted the hosts for accusing her of “being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, I think is the term that you used, which basically means that I am naive or lack intelligence.” In an attempt to “set the record straight,” Gabbard defended herself as a “patriot” and a “strong and intelligent woman of color” who has “dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security and the freedom of all Americans in this country.”
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