In 1973, Bass, who’s now a potential Biden VP pick, traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.
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Who is Karen Bass? She is a Mayor in California over seeing the fire destruction of that state who refused to provide the area with enough water to fight off the fire and then went on vacation during the event to Africa. She also defunded the fire department there despite the geographical and historical threat of wildfires in the area. In her earlies years, she frequented Communist Cuba and was being heavily considered by Joe Biden for the VP pick.
In 1973, Bass, who’s now a potential Biden VP pick, traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.
Karen Bass, the congresswoman from California, is in contention to become Joe Biden's running mate. There are good reasons for this. She is reliably liberal, she chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, and she shares a history of family loss with Biden. But she’s also the only person on Biden’s list who spent part of the 1970s working construction in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, a group that has organized annual trips to Cuba for young, leftist Americans for half a century.
The Biden campaign knows about Bass’s history with the Brigade, which began as a joint venture of the Castro government and Students for a Democratic Society, the leftist, antiwar organization that gave birth to the Weather Underground terrorist group. She told Biden’s vetting committee weeks ago that this was probably going to come up. So far, it hasn’t been a deal breaker—in fact, her potential to drive up African-American votes might help in Florida among voters who traditionally haven’t been paid as much attention in the state.
Don't get me wrong, I don't expect democrats to actually purge themselves of communists, because that is what the party has become. But to publicly be proud to be fans of an openly oppressive regime like Castro's Cuba and still get elected? That to me is just insane.