Joey Lucas and O'Dwyer's grassroots moral complaint (and demand for accountability for DNC funding choices) clashes with party realpolitik embodied by Josh Lyman and party/staff gatekeeping — a micro‑conflict about principles versus pragmatic party str...
Joey Lucas and O'Dwyer's grassroots moral complaint (and demand for accountability for DNC funding choices) clashes with party realpolitik embodied by Josh Lyman and party/staff gatekeeping — a micro‑conflict about principles versus pragmatic party strategy that becomes personal and political.
Events in This Arc
Joey storms into Josh's office demanding to know why the DNC pulled funding from her unexpectedly competitive campaign. Josh delivers a blunt, cynical answer: the party prefers to keep an …
Joey Lucas storms into Josh's office furious that the DNC has cut her campaign funding and accuses the party of cynically preserving a grotesque Republican as a fundraiser. When Josh …
At a hotel bar Josh delivers the President's apology to Joey — a genial, slightly self-conscious olive branch that masks something larger. What begins as small talk about funding and …