All-out trashing is in many ways a more effective tactic at the  
Congressional scale than at the local legislative scale.  If enough  
local reach can be established through a grassroots coalition whose  
allied organizations severally support a credibe challenger, some  
incumbents could feel real heat.

BW


Quoting Wallace Taylor <[log in to unmask]>:

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> Primary challenges would be good, but we would have to be prepared for the
> establishment Democrats to trash the challengers just like they did   
> Ed Fallon,
> and a good case would have to be made that the challengers are not   
> too extreme.
> I don't mean that the challengers should not be from the Democratic wing of
> the Democratic Party, but that the public would have to be educated that
> progressive candidates are the ones who really make sense and act in  
>  the public
> interest. For the last 20-30 years the conservatives have created   
> the impression
> that their agenda is in the public interest, so people ended up   
> voting against
> their own interests.
>
> Wally Taylor
>
> In a message dated 4/1/2009 2:02:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Yes, I believe primary challengers are a very good way to hold
> incumbent Dems accountable to their constituents.
>
> Donna
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