{"id":15522,"date":"2022-04-14T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:22:15","slug":"metro-dc-dsa-condemns-brooks-will-vote-on-revoking-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15522","title":{"rendered":"Metro DC DSA Condemns Brooks, Will Vote on Revoking Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcdsa.org\/2022-04-14-update-on-the-brandy-brooks-campaign\/\">Metro DC DSA issued a statement<\/a> after meeting with embattled at-large Montgomery County Council Candidate Brandy Brooks. Their claims are damning: &#8220;At no point did she deny the allegations against her&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8217;re disappointed to see her twist the language of abolition and restorative justice to try to deflect from her actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) are a left-wing organization that has been closely aligned with and highly supportive of Brooks. Here is their complete statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.34-PM.png 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.45-PM.png 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-5.08.57-PM.png 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro DC DSA issued a statement after meeting with embattled at-large Montgomery County Council Candidate Brandy Brooks. Their claims are damning: &#8220;At no point did she deny the allegations against her&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8217;re disappointed to see her twist the language of abolition and restorative justice to try to deflect from her actions.&#8221; The DSA (Democratic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metro DC DSA Condemns Brooks, Will Vote on Revoking Endorsement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2498,2431],"tags":[2024,2499],"class_list":["post-15522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-democratic-primary","category-brandy-brooks","tag-brandy-brooks","tag-metro-dc-dsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-42m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}