Under cover of listening and productive debate (sometimes candidate/Republican), Jim Rubens is holding a House party. He’d like you to meet Maryland Democrat John Delaney. Delany is running for President and according to Rubens, we need to keep our options open.
Left-center is not my politics. But the need for big-picture solutions is now so urgent that all of us called upon to widen our nets, at least to listen. Please join us in listening, posing questions and making suggestions to this credible and competent candidate.
Left of center isn’t your guest’s politics either.
Delaney rejects the idea that he’s a centrist. “I don’t think of myself as a moderate. My instincts are clearly progressive,” Delaney said, pointing to his personal investment in a coalition to raise Maryland’s minimum wage and his support for a carbon tax.
The Democrat-Socialists don’t have to love him. They have Bernie or Liz Warren. But he isn’t running to protect the Republican platform or limited government.
“I’m a big believer in the private economy and market forces, but I also believe there’s a role for government in setting the rules of the road and helping take care of the most vulnerable.”
A role where the state sets the value of labor and taxes emissions under the premise that CO2 is the cause of something the government can fix with enough of our money. He’s a leftist — one that needs Republicans to vote in Democrat primaries if he has any shot at winning even one of them. And Jim Rubens is here to help.
Here’s the invitation.
Susan and I are hosting a meet & greet for 3-term Maryland Congressman and announced presidential candidate John Delaney. All are welcomed to join us for this event free of charge. Delicious Nepalese snacks and refreshments will be served.
Saturday, January 19th at 2:00 pm
Base Camp Café, 3 Lebanon Street, downtown Hanover
While Susan and I are Republicans, we are hosting this Democratic candidate because:
1. Other than anti-Trumpism, there is precious little debate on the Republican side as to governing philosophy and issue options.
2. Our nation is desperate for informed, wide-ranging debate about our supertanker load of unresolved challenges. Debt and deficits, unfunded safety net/retirement programs, healthcare cost/quality, foreign policy, military/weapons procurement strategy, our veterans, immigration, trade, wage stagnation, lagging infrastructure/research funding, energy, pollution … (long breath).
Candidate choices are clustering into Trump, several big government populists, empty charismatics (i.e., Beto) and left centrism. Having read his book and checked out his legislative and business record, I slot John Delaney as a pragmatic, get-the-job-done, left centrist. To his credit, John Delaney has founded two NYSE-listed companies and seems particularly adept at cross-partisan coalition building.
Left-center is not my politics. But the need for big-picture solutions is now so urgent that all of us called upon to widen our nets, at least to listen. Please join us in listening, posing questions and making suggestions to this credible and competent candidate.
Best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2019!
Jim Rubens
Sorry, Jim, but I’ve seen your recent (corporatist?) politics on Climate policy, and your advocacy for groups that use Republicans to push Overton’s window to the left. Issues and priorities that involve a wholesale takeover by the state to work as intended. Goals the purveyors of such policies intend whether you accept that or not. Including the John Delaney’s of the world.
