PBS covers Donna Edwards and our More and Better Democrats campaign
By John Amato Friday Jan 18, 2008 12:01pm
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PBS' NOW highlighted our efforts (Mo Better Democrats!) to send a very important message to the Bush Dogs and establishment Democrats who support the Al Wynn's of the party when we raised over 100,000 dollars for Blue America's Donna Edwards a few months ago. Here's our ActBlue page for Donna.
With Democrats like Al Wynn, who needs Republicans? Donna Edwards...
Right on, Donna! Big Media Matt Stoller was interviewed for the show and did a tremendous job of explaining our position.
Stoller: I mean if you're willing to compromise on core values with people who operate in bad faith then you will always be ruled, you'll just never get anything done.
In Maryland, six-term incumbent Al Wynn is facing a tough challenge from newcomer Donna Edwards. According to Edwards, Wynn has sold out to big business and the Bush agenda, including a vote for the war in Iraq and the 2005 energy bill. Wynn says his challenger is naïve and doesn't understand that there are choices in politics between compromise and doing nothing.
Fueling candidates like Edwards are the foot soldiers of the progressive battle—bloggers and other political outsiders like Matt Stoller of OpenLeft.com who are drumming up national support on the Internet.
Go Donna!!!
Wynn says his challenger is naïve and doesn’t understand that there are choices in politics between compromise and doing nothing.
There it is. Blue Dog Democrats believe there are only two choices in how to govern: compromise or do nothing. This should be quoted in all attack ads by all progressive candidates.
It's going to take 15 years to get these people entrenched into the higher levels of the system.
You have to start small and prevail over the long run.
Thats the key.
there's only two excuses for RED DOG democrats like Wynn:
they know the consequences of their actions...and don't care (and should be dethroned)
-or-
they DON'T realize the consequences of their actions....(and should still be dethroned)
I'm just so much more excited by the campaign for more and better Democrats, and this is where my time, attention, money, and tears will go. I will work to elect whoever the Democratic candidate is. But it's campaigns like this that will force our next (Democratic) president to implement good policies and avoid bad ones.
RichStraightWhiteAmericanMale @ 2:
Actually Wynn is feeling threatened by an opponent who's connected with people at the Grass Roots-Net Roots level. A women to boot! Ouch. But Wynn definitely senses a serious threat to his continual trips to the federal feeding trough he's become accustomed to. No doubt about it.
thoughthey cite howard dean in 2004 as the beginning point to the progressive movement, at least within the electoral arena, they fail to mention dean's eventual support of john kerry.
Ok Nevadans, hit the showers! One hour 'till Caucus Time!
Wynn is right. He had to compromise and vote for the war in Iraq. Sure, it's the wrong war in the wrong country, but without compromise we may not have gotten to have a war at all.
Al Wynn's Corporate PAC money addiction knows no bounds
I want a Mo Better Dem for Vermonts US House seat!!
I remember a Drama class in college where I was introduced to the old stage acting maxim "Don't just do something, stand there!"
So Wynn thinks it is all about compromise or do nothing. Just like a Republican, do nothing. So Wynn must be a Republican in disguise.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
You've accurately summed up "Fat" Albert Wynn. I just hope when this is over, Donna will be the new representative from Maryland, and Wynn will go hat in hand begging for a job on K Street, mumbling like, well, FAT ALBERT did on Saturday mornings with the gang.
John Edwards running for president sure looks smart, but unfortunately, smart ppl don't usually end up being the front-runner, primarily because the media doesn't focus so much on people like him, Biden, or Kucinich. If John Edwards doesn't become the next POTUS, he definitely deserves to be the next Secretary of Labor, because he fights for American worker's rights, particularly when he told a young boy that he was going to fight for his daddy's job to keep him employed.