Bloggers Create PAC to Recruit Liberal Candidates

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Bloggers Create PAC to Recruit Liberal Candidates


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Accountability Now planners include, from left, Trevor Fitzgibbon, Jane Hamsher, Markos Moulitsas and Jeff Hauser.

By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: February 26, 2009


WASHINGTON — A group of liberal bloggers say they are teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn.org to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party further to the left.
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Soliciting donations from their readers, the bloggers say they are planning to recruit candidates to challenge the more centrist Democrats now in Congress, known as “blue dogs.”

The formation of the group is another step in the evolution of the blogosphere, which has proven effective at motivating party activists to give money and time to political campaigns, especially in local races.

But it also illuminates a deepening wrinkle for President Obama, whose efforts to build a broad governing coalition — often by tempering some of his more liberal positions — has already angered some of his supporters on the left.

The new organization is in many ways the liberal equivalent of the Club for Growth, a conservative group that has financed primary challenges against Republicans it deems insufficiently dedicated to tax cuts and small government.

Organizers of the new group, called Accountability Now, bristle at the comparison, saying they will not provide an issues-based litmus test for candidates. They say they will mainly support primary challenges when there is clear evidence that a lawmaker is out of step with his constituents.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/politics/27liberal.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

[Kansas Wyatt]

1. Yes!

This country has needed a hard shove back to the left for the last 25 years, instead of just the leveling off (Republican Lite) that occurred during the Clinton years.