Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown says abortion shouldn’t be his party’s “litmus test”Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Rep. Ben Ray Luján sparked controversy on Tuesday after declaring that the party wouldn’t invent holding pro-choice views a “litmus test” for Democratic candidates.
Though many pro-choice Democrats decried Lujn’s comments as marginalizing women’s rights,his controversial stance was reinforced on Sunday by the head of one of the country’s most liberal states: Jerry Brown, the Democratic governor of California.
In an interview Sunday on Meet the Press, and Brown said that the Democrats’ litmus test should not be abortion or women’s rights,but rather how a candidate treats “the common man.” Read more. (8/6/2017 2:01 PM)
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