{"id":1118203,"date":"2021-12-14T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1118203"},"modified":"2021-12-14T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:59:14","slug":"blumenthal-speaks-at-communist-party-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blumenthal-speaks-at-communist-party-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblumenthal-speaks-at-communist-party-awards-ceremony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1118203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.661538461538\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Event organizers used the ceremony to invite people to join the Communist Party<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-736x480-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-e1639503861727.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-1536x1003.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-2048x1337.png 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-14-at-12.43.34-PM-1400x914.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSen. Richard Blumenthal at the Connecticut People&#8217;s World awards event\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 December 14, 2021 1:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"99.222593113141\">\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, presented certificates of special recognition from the Senate to three winners of the &#8220;Amistad Award,&#8221; given annually by the Connecticut People\u2019s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist <em>People\u2019s World<\/em> news site.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal appeared even as Democratic leaders have downplayed allegations that many in the party support socialist or communist policies. President Joe Biden distanced himself from the left-wing ideologies during the 2020 presidential campaign, at one point bragging that he defeated a socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), in the primaries. Blumenthal used his speech at the ceremony to tout Democratic legislative policies, including voting rights reform, ending the filibuster and the Build Back Better Act, according to the Yankee Institute, a free market think tank in Connecticut that <a href=\"https:\/\/yankeeinstitute.org\/2021\/12\/13\/state-senator-kushner-u-s-senator-blumenthal-highlight-connecticut-communist-partys-amistad-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> details of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal was introduced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CTPeoplesWorld\/videos\/277703681051200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the event<\/a> by Lisa Bergmann, a Communist Party member who blamed corporations for the &#8220;imperialism that exists in our world that is undermining the labor and environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bergmann and her fellow communist emcee, Ben McManus, issued invitations at the ceremony to join the Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are not already part of the Communist Party, we invite you to participate and contribute and join,&#8221; Bergmann said after Blumenthal&#8217;s speech. &#8220;There&#8217;s more and more people talking about socialism in this country as it becomes more and more clear that capitalism is not going to work for our future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m a member of the Communist Party, I love it. I think it\u2019s an amazing organization,&#8221; said Bergmann, who serves as an organizer for the Young Communist League USA.<\/p>\n<p>McManus echoed Bergmann\u2019s remarks, inviting ceremony viewers &#8220;to join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights, and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace, and planet before profits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal\u2019s wealth is so vast\u2014one estimate puts it at $100 million\u2014that he has sometimes been unaware of all of his investments, including in a real estate development company linked to the Chinese government. Blumenthal said he was unaware of his investment in U.S. Shanghai LLC., which is listed on his annual financial disclosure, until <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/blumenthal-and-wife-have-six-figure-investment-in-chinese-government-linked-retail-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted for comment<\/a> by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> earlier this year. Blumenthal\u2019s wealth comes mostly from his wife, a member of a New York real estate dynasty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Event organizers used the ceremony to invite people to join the Communist Party  Sen. 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