PDA Campaign News News about candidates endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 60 May use with attribution link to http://pdamerica.org/ http://pdamerica.org/ Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits From Anti-Generics Amendment She Helped Eshoo Pass http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-11-07-09-22-29-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-11-07-09-22-29-campaigns.php PDA MA Endorses Mike Capuano for Senate http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-11-03-15-58-55-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-11-03-15-58-55-campaigns.php ANC-PAC Endorses Marcy Winograd in Race Against Jane Harman http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-10-18-09-16-33-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-10-18-09-16-33-campaigns.php Jane Harman Challenger, Marcy Winograd, Pledges Support For Armenian American Issues http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-09-12-13-21-21-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-09-12-13-21-21-campaigns.php Taking Back Our Constitutional Rights http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-07-06-13-08-01-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-07-06-13-08-01-campaigns.php A Note from Tom Geoghegan http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-04-00-09-42-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-04-00-09-42-campaigns.php A Campaign. An Idea. A New Political Paradigm Election Day TODAY: Make Calls for Tom Geoghegan TODAY!
Published by The Nation. "This is an election that is trying to set a paradigm for a progressive politics, post-meltdown candidacy," says Tom Geoghegan as braves lake-effect snow and diving temperatures in the frenzied finish to the most unlikely of congressional campaigns. This talk of "paradigms" and "post-meltdown politics" reveals Geoghegan for who he is, an author and public intellectual who has spent a lifetime peddling ideas. And it begs the question: Has our politics changed enough to choose not just a new member of Congress but a new way of thinking about what progressivism advocates, about what Democrats should propose, about what Washington can do for America? While a lot of Democrats are still busy complaining about George Bush, and a lot more are absorbed by the work of cleaning up the mess that the former president left behind when he helicoptered out of Washington, Geoghegan is knocking on the doors of bungalows and telling retirees they need a raise. This candidate is not proposing to "save Social Security," he wants to expand it -- providing recipients with a raise and creating a real national pension program. [more]]]> http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-02-11-16-53-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-02-11-16-53-campaigns.php PDA Wishes You Were Here http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-01-09-59-31-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-03-01-09-59-31-campaigns.php Tom Geoghegan Is the Healthcare Candidate Primary election day is March 3--can you spare an hour or two for single-payer healthcare? Make calls into Tom's district! Published by The Atlantic. For reasons explained several times in the past six weeks (here, here, and here), I really hope my long-time friend Tom Geoghegan can win next month's special election for the Congressional seat from the Fifth District of Illinois. This is no slight on any of the other candidates in the race. I know very little about them or the politics of the district. But I know enough about Geoghegan, based on decades of friendship starting when we were teenagers, to be 100% sure that he would bring an unusual level of honesty, intelligence, humor, and again honesty to national politics. I am saying honesty twice because I mean both the personal-probity and the plain-speaking variety. [more]]]> http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-28-09-09-10-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-28-09-09-10-campaigns.php Wherein I Break One of My Rules We can push Tom Geoghegan over the top in the March 3 primary! Make calls this weekend for Tom. Published by Salon.com. For a lot of reasons I never endorse candidates, but I'm backing Tom Geoghegan for Rahm Emanuel's old House seat in Chicago. As a rule I don't endorse candidates for public office--partly out of a habit formed under the rules of legacy journalism, and partly because my general preferences ought to be clear enough for anyone who cares. For me, it's a good rule. But then someone like Tom Geoghegan runs for Congress, and suddenly it looks like a rule that needs to be broken, or at least bent. [more]]]> http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-27-09-52-38-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-27-09-52-38-campaigns.php Geoghegan Receives PDA National Endorsement http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-14-20-06-26-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-14-20-06-26-campaigns.php Geoghegan: Rhymes with Reagan, Thinks Like Wellstone http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-11-09-44-57-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-11-09-44-57-campaigns.php PDA Chapter Endorses Tom Geoghegan to Replace Emanuel in IL CD5 Visit Geoghegan for Congress! PDA-Chicago and PDA-IL 05 voted overwhelmingly Monday, February 9, to endorse Tom Geoghegan (gaygun) for Congress. The special election to replace IL-05 Congressman, Rahm Emanuel, is March 3rd. The main reason cited for the endorsement was Geoghegan's vision for the reform of the US economy. The other liberal Democrats in the race have suggested band-aid approaches, which would leave our basic economic structures unchanged. But Geoghegan expressed a progressive vision that would restore economic security to middle class working people. Geoghegan anchors his campaign around basic changes that will directly benefit America's distressed middle class working people and students. They are: [more]]]> http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-11-17-44-07-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2009-02-11-17-44-07-campaigns.php What I Know About Jesse Jackson Jr. http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2008-12-14-08-41-55-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2008-12-14-08-41-55-campaigns.php Rep. Jackson Is Our Choice to Be Senator http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2008-12-02-08-31-25-campaigns.php http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2008-12-02-08-31-25-campaigns.php