The DuMB Platform

Let me rip the band-aide off here right away folks. Deliris Montanez Berrios' policies sound much more like mainstream Republicans than they do the Democratic Party Platform. I've spoken about her a couple times, and I understand that might give some of you the impression that she's a viable candidate. 

She isn't. 

But one thing I've always prided myself on is that I do my best to focus on issues. Sure, I - like many of you, occasionally pause and point and laugh when I see political dumbfuckery afoot. Guitly as charged. But for the most part, I'm an issues guy. 

And when you get passed all the word salad and deflection from answering an actual questions, that is where you find the scary truth about this candidate. 

I went to her website at her behest a while back once she got some policy stuff loaded on the website. I'm being generous when I say its policy stuff. Its mostly contradictory word salad that sounds like she went to Trump Campaign University. 

She's simultaneously for a flat tax and a progressive tax. 

But the fun doesn't stop at the tax policy. Wait til you get a load of her position on education. 

In an email she sent me at 11:10am on January 31st of this year, Montanez Berrios included the questions and her answer to a recent questionnaire. It was unclear what organization the questionnaire was for but it most certainly is interesting. I'm including screenshots so you can see for yourselves. 

To be clear, these are her own words. 

Case in point - DMB is apparently in favor of demolishing the Department of Education - which is a Republican Party Platform issue. 

She is also in favor of school choice - which apparently is quite the hot-button issue within the local El Paso County Democratic Party considering all of a sudden people are now starting to voice their opposition to charter schools. 

Or here's another topic that has a lot of folks talking lately - Critical Race Theory, or as most people like to call it - actual American History. Get a gander at this one and tell me if you think she's really a Democrat or a Republican...

Oh wait, there's more. You all know I'm a big advocate for workers' rights and for the institution of organized labor. Its a major tenant of the Democratic Party. Organized labor has been the backbone of the Democratic Party for years and as you know, I've been calling out candidates that are problematic for organized labor. Well I better not see a single union endorse her after she comes out this with policy stand. 

How about a woman's right to make her own health choices and choices over her own body? Well you probably already knew she's against a woman's right to her own body, but here is confirmation in case you didn't know. But hey, she at least thinks a woman should decide if she carriers her rapist's baby. How benevolent of her...

Oh, how about public health during the global pandemic? Think she supports or opposes things like mask or vaccine mandates? Come on, you already know...

Also, lets take a quick break here to address what you're wondering...these questions...I know, right? It most certainly doesn't sound like its a questionnaire for a Democratic organization does it? And all of the DuMB replies sound exactly like Republican candidate Irene Armendariz-Jackson is sayin them...

Anywho - back to our story kids. 

Where were we?

Ah yes, fiscal issues....

That led to this interesting question that might require some background. She answered yes to the question. The Taxpayer Protection Pledge is something that has beeb pushed by a guy named Grover Norquist who runs Americans for Tax Reform since 1986. The Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a written promise by legislators and candidates for office that commits them to oppose tax increases. If you don't know, Grover Norquist is an extremist Republican. 95% of Republican members of congress have signed this pledge. 

And she wonders why people say she's really a Republican? Its positions exactly like this one. 

If you thought that is as bad as it gets, you'd be wrong. She is also opposed to the Affordable Care Act, because Republicans oppose anything that has the word Obama on it. Healthcare companies have seen record profits during the pandemic while keeping wages for their local employees low. I almost chocked when I saw this shallowness of this answer. It means she doesn't think companies that profited most during a healthcare crisis should face any scrutiny at all. 

And to demonstrate that she doesn't even know the community she's trying to represent, she wants to keep working families from an expansion of medicaid. She wants a system where only the wealthy have the means to afford healthcare.

She apparently thinks there is no discrimination in the United States and that all people in the US are afforded the same opportunities and have no obstacles to equity. She apparently thinks that minority-owned businesses should be afforded any additional opportunities in order to level the playing field either. 

So far from what I have been able to glean from her comments and information available online, it appears that the only issue that DMB appears to be in-line with the Democratic Party is on the LGBTQ+ community. 

Every other single issue she appears to sound far more like a Republican than a Democrat. Mind you, these are her answers, not mine. 

Let me tell you, it has been a challenge to take DMB seriously as a candidate. I mean she showed up to a candidate forum Friday night in a yoga pants and combat boots. At least she could've looked like she wanted to win. 

Don't worry, I have video of what she said. Jesus H. Christ she's out-there. Wait til you hear what she said about January 6th...

An attorney friend of mine was listening to her speak and he sent me a text message saying, "She's nuttier than squirrel shit". 

And that ladies and gentlemen, seems to be the most appropriate way to bring this post to a close...