OpenLeft: Progressive Caucus Co-Chair actively helping Blue Dog defeat Progressive challenger

[marmar]

Progressive Caucus Co-Chair actively helping Blue Dog defeat Progressive challenger

by: Chris Bowers
Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 13:35


Marcy Winograd is one of the very few serious, viable, progressive challengers to a Blue Dog in Congress. In the California 36th congressional district, Winograd, who has spent a lifetime as an activist for progressive causes, is taking on Jane Harman.

Naturally, this means that Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Lynn Woolsey is holding a meet and greet fundraiser in support of Jane Harman's re-election. From an invitation I receive over Facebook last night:

Please join Congresswoman Jane Harman
in welcoming Congresswoman Lynne Woolsey Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for a special evening of conversation and hors d'oeuvres with Lynne and Jane in support of Jane's re-election to Congress!

Danny's Venice
23 Windward Avenue
Venice, CA 90291
Saturday, January 16, 2010
4:00pm to 6:00pm

A cash bar and discounted parking will be available (two lots: one next to Danny's or on Speedway just south of Windward)

For more information, please contact Marc Saltzberg at 310-328-9125 or Email: [e-mail]

Please join us at this extraordinary event, a fund raiser for Congresswoman Harman in an historic Venice location.

To ensure everyone has an opportunity to attend, Democratic Club members can attend for as little as $36. Not a Dem Club member? You can still attend with a small donation of $50!

Aarrgghhh!! Come on Progressive Caucus!! A little help? Even Progressive Caucus leaders are supporting Blue Dogs in primaries against prospective Progressives? Do the Progressives even want to have more influence in Congress?

This is not even to mention that Jane Harman is the third wealthiest member of Congress, with a net worth of $112 million. She doesn't need any additional funding for her re-election campaign What she needs to progressive credibility to cover up her blue Dog membership and past endorsements from Republicans. And, Progressive Caucus Co-chair Lynn Woolsey is happy to deliver, apparently.

If you live in the Los Angeles area, I would strongly suggest that you attend the above meet and greet. Show up and challenge Representative Woolsey for undermining attempts replace Blue Dogs with Progressives. She should be working to increase Progressive power in Congress, not limit it. And why should we be working to support the Progressive Caucus if the Progressive Caucus leadership actively undermining our efforts to strengthen the caucus?

And, no matter where you live, please sign up for Marcy Winograd's newsletter.


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[babylonsister]

1. Jeeze, now Woolsey is being thrown under the bus?

Maybe she has a reason for supporting Harman.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Perhaps she beileves that Harman is a good Congresswoman

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. This district went to Obama by 30.9%.

We can get a true progressive here. Woolsey is a bit on the... unstable side, so I'm not exactly sure what her motives here are. It's a bit baffling.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. What evidence do you have that Woolsey is 'unstable?'

:shrug:

[tblue]

3. Say WHAT?!!! Yeah, we should all convey a piece of our mind

to her. I'm sure it's some quid pro quo thing, but to hell with that! Really reflects poorly upon Woolsey.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Perhaps she knows Rep. Harman better than you do

[tritsofme]

4. Incumbents supporting incumbents...what has this world come to?!?!?

[bbgrunt]

5. wtf???

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Maybe, just maybe, because Winograd has already failed twice at unseating Harman. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

7. Twice?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Yes, twice. (Edit: I was incorrect)

I thought it was twice, but it was only once - in 2006. 62.5% to 37.5%. I believe that is what is known as a bloodbath.

[Truth2Tell]

9. Most likely this is about personal friendship

and not policy at all. I don't like it, but I don't think it means anything substantial.