Zopp Senate Candidacy In Early Trouble with Major Democratic Groups as well as her anticipated and/or assumed core Black community base?
Candidate Zopp is in REAL trouble if she is just EXPECTING a groundswell of core support from the Black community. One problem that I immediately see is that I have had more people calling me off line about the Tammy Duckworth candidacy and JUST ONE person who mentioned pushing her candidacy! It does Zopp NO GOOD even if she raises major dollars from fundraisers from an upper class of our community and Democratic base YET its not invested EARLY in her trying to get a grassroots message to all those who STILL UPSET with her role, real or perceived in the historic closing of the 50 schools in Chicago.!
Thats a LOT of core voters who are already deciding Zopps fate of no support with to date, NO OUTREACH to make her candidacy make sense to them and that goes for a lot of other constituent groups I am hearing from off line. My message to them is that Zopp will CONTINUE to get played by major party leaders and supporters who see a real opening in her perceived lack of support from her own core community. But your PUBLIC silence on Zopp opens the door for those who are preparing to CONTINUE to bypass her for Duckworth with NO core Black leadership response of any kind. Zopp has to immediately use her dollars NOW to begin some aggressive outreach to a lot of people in her core community who are not feeling her candidacy and maybe should.
I am not asking for support for or against the Zopp candidacy but it does her campaign no good if those guiding her are out only in touch with a middle or upper class level of supporters that is NOT being translated at the bottom of constituent leaders at the core grassroots level. And with reference to Duckworth I would also advise many of my friends and allies who are supporting her so early and I have yet to see ONE issue that qualifies her for such early support when I see behind the scenes campaigning and NO public outreach to the Black community. But again from a Black candidate perspective, outside political pundits will always think they can just bypass Black candidates when they are given the impression that the Black community does not value to candidacy and in my judgement, candidate Zopp must do something that shows the public that her candidacy is valued in the Black community and must be respected with due process in terms of fairness to all seeking the same ultimate Democratic Party endorsement.
But early on, major Democratic operatives are not promoting the appearance of fairness when they make these early endorsements of candidate Duckworth without the professional courtesy of even an interview with candidate Zopp.

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