Name names: Which current or prospective national legislators are already on our side?
US Senators:
Sanders, VT
Warren, MA
And there's the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
Progressive Caucus members list here: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/
Are they all true and active Progressives? I'm only familiar with a few.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/USProgressives
Who else do we want to engage?
I stumbled on this page, "21st Century Democrats", search by state for candidates, etc.
http://www.21stcenturydems.org/endorsements/
I think it would might be constructive to reach out to some of all of these people to see who wants to work with a bunch of us in organizing.
Name Names!!!
hedda_foil
(16,496 posts)DFA for their membership of millions of populist Dems. Schakowsky because she's always got our back.
randys1
(16,286 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)I'm trying to think .......????
John Conyers used to be really good...but he was "gone after." ...He's older now..I think if he was his younger self I'd list him...
I'll think more...
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Both can be looked up. But, I don't hear much about them these days on Lib Left Sites...the few that there are these days.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)name there. He has always been very Progressive. He represents the Albany area in Upstate. Used to be my critter, but we got redrawn and now we have a Teabagger who just got re-elected.
onecaliberal
(35,697 posts)Ca 3rd. He's a true progressive.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I want to compile these names and maybe make an effort to collectively (us reformers at DU) send all of them an invitation to acknowledge our reaching out to them, and maybe begin a little coordination among ourselves and any of them willing to provide even a little support.
UrbScotty
(23,987 posts)wavesofeuphoria
(525 posts)http://www.teachoutwu.com/
Zephyr Teachouts Corruption in America
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teachouts-corruption-in-america.html?_r=0
How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy
http://www.thenation.com/article/181565/how-zephyr-teachout-taught-democrats-lesson-democracy
The Nation's Sarah Jaffe writes:
No, Teachout didn't beat the incumbent governor with the $35 million war chest, but she took nearly 35 percent of the vote Tuesday night, enough to leave a sizable gash in his left flank and do some permanent damage to his hopes of running for national office one day. She won nearly the entire Hudson Valley, a swath of the middle of the state, and even got 54 percent of the vote in far north St. Lawrence County, according to The New York Timess election results maps. She took over 10,000 votes in the states capital, Albany County, compared to just over 6,000 for the governor. The 62.1 percent of the vote Cuomo garnered is among the poorer performances by an incumbent governor running for re-election in primaries since 2002a figure that hovers somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth percentile of victory margins, according to FiveThirtyEight. That's pretty badthe median percentage by which a governor won re-nomination was over 90 percent.