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This One Isn’t Affiliated with the DLC

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I posted a while back on the DLCC, an organization that’s raising money nationally for state legislative races. I was torn about it. On the one hand, state legislative races are terribly important — after all, state legislatures are the ones that handle redistricting. (And on a less cynical level, an awful lot of important governance happens at the state level.) On the other hand, it was a DLC affiliate [CORRECTION: I am entirely wrong about this — it’s got nothing to do with the DLC. I swear the fundraiser who called me told me it did. Now that I know this, they also sound entirely worthy.]— I’m not crazy about the DLC ideologically, and I’m even less crazy about them in terms of effectiveness.

So I was very happy to read this, in The Nation about Progressive Majority, a similar organization not affiliated with the DLC. They take candidates in state or local races who are willing to sign on to their platform:

Candidates must get 100 percent on a forty-item questionnaire that tests their commitment to economic justice and civil rights, including gay rights, public education, universal healthcare, environmental protection and abortion.

And then they fund them, train them, and support them generally. This seems like a wonderful plan — very similar to what the Republicans have been doing for decades with GOPAC — and something we should all be supporting. (also at Unfogged.)

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