Kara Eastman: the pro-choice candidate the pro-choice establishment ignored

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I spoke to Kara Eastman the day after she won her primary against Blue Dog Democrat Brad Ashford in Nebraska's congressional second district. Ashford, a former Republican who likes to "govern from the Center" and has an anti-choice record, was endorsed by The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). What's more surprising, kinda, is that Kara Eastman, who is openly pro-choice wasn't endorsed by a single high profile pro-choice organization. The only pro-choice organization to endorse her was Vote Pro Choice. The silence of groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Emily's List is especially frustrating, given that they vocally opposed Heath Mello, the Democrat who ran for mayor of Omaha, because of his anti-choice record, which was better than Ashford's, and despite his promise to be a pro-choice mayor. Not to mention that mayor's have less influence on abortion than members of congress. But I digress.

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0:42.2	I'm really excited to play you an interview that I did with
0:44.9	Kara Eastman. I did this interview Wednesday, May 16th, one day after Kara beat the odds and made headlines when she won her primary for Nebraska's second district
0:56.4	defeating former Representative Brad Ashford.
0:59.4	Eastman and Ashford are really different.
1:01.2	Ashford is a former member of the
1:02.6	Nebraska State legislator, a former representative, a former Republican, and
1:07.0	former independent. In fact he became a Democrat because as he once said, I want to legislate from the center and the Democrats are more
1:13.9	centrist than the GOP. He voted for anti-choice legislation he voted against
1:19.4	parts of the Affordable Care Act. Ashford served one term in Congress before losing in 2016
1:26.7	to rept on Bacon, the Republican, who's now in power.
1:31.0	And by the way, Ashford served on Hillary Clinton's Nebraska Leadership Council.
1:35.0	Eastman, on the other hand, is unapologetically pro-choice and supports Medicare for all.
1:42.0	She explicitly mentioned the right to choose in her campaign video.
1:45.6	I'm tired of hearing that Democrats don't have a backbone, that we don't stand for
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