by supporting these candidates against the blue-dog / DLC / corporatists that took out the best parts of this bill.
AR:
Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is announcing his candidacy for the Senate against incumbent Blanche Lincoln.
www.billhalter.com
AZ:
Rodney Glassman is exploreing a potential run for Senate.
http://www.rodneyglassman.comCA:
Dr. Amerish "Ami" Bera, a physician, is running against Republican Dan Lundgren in the 3rd district.
http://www.beraforcongress.com Marcy Winograd, is a progressive activist running against "blue-dog" Jane Harman in the 36th district.
www.winograd4congress.com
Bill Hedrick is running for Congress in the 44th district and came within 2% of winning in 2008.
www.billhedrickforcongress.com
CO:
Andrew Romanoff is the former Colorado House Majority Leader, who has bucked the establishment and even the President to run a primary against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet. Bennet voted against the cram-down amendment as part of the foreclosure legislation, and despite authoring the letter on the public option, only tepidly endorsed it until a few months ago.
http://www.andrewromanoff.com FL:
State Senate minority leader Al Lawson is running against blue-dog incumbent Allen Boyd, who voted against the health-care bill, in the 2nd Congressional District.
www.allawsonforcongress.com
Doug Tudor is a progressive Democrat running in the primary against self-proclaimed "blue-dog" Lori Edwards in Florida's 12 Congressional District. Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz and the DCCC are working on behalf of Edwards.
http://www.teamtudor.org GA:
Regina Thomas is running in the 12th district against blue-dog John Barrow.
http://www.reginathomasforcongress.com/index.html MI:
Connie Saltonstall has just announced she is challenging Bart Stupak for his seat.
http://conniesaltonstall.com/index.html MD:
Andrew Gall, an Obama campaign staffer, is running against consumate D.C. insider and centrist majority whip Steny Hoyer. This one's a long shot, but definately worth a shot.
http://www.andrewforcongress.org /
MN:
Tarryl Clark is running against Michele Bachman in the 6th congressional district.
www.tarrylclark.com
NC:
Billy Kennedy, a farmer and local radio show host, recently declared his candidacy for the 5th district against Republican Virginia Fox.
http://www.billykennedyforcongress.com /
NH:
Ann McLane Kuster is running in the 2nd congressional district, which is being vacated by Paul Hodes.
http://www.kusterforcongress.com /
OH:
Jennifer Brunner, is currently Secretary of State in Ohio, and was responsible for cleaning up the mess her predecessor Ken Blackwell left in time for the 2008 election. Sen. Menendez and the DSCC have to tried to stifle her candidacy in favor of Lee Fisher.
http://www.jenniferbrunner.com PA:
Congressman Joe Sestak, is taking on Senator Arlen Specter. The state establishment and White House are all backing Specter who will likely lose to Pat Toomey.
http://joesestak.com Lois Herr is running for Congress in the 16th district against incumbent Republican Joe Pitts, of the Stupak / Pitts anti-abortion amendment.
http://www.herr2010.com RI:
Rhode Island State Representative Betsy Dennigan, who is progressive and pro-choice, is running in a primary against current Rep. James Langevin, who voted for the Stupak amendment.
http://betsydenniganforcongress.com SC:
Iraq war veteran Rob Miller is running against Congressman Joe "you-lie" Wilson.
http://www.robmillerforcongress.com WA:
State Senator Craig Pridemore is running for the 3rd. Congressional district. Blue America Pac quotes him: "After having know him for about two days, he confided in me that "the conventional wisdom up here is that a Democrat can't win if he/she stands for Democratic values. I am absolutely committed to changing that perception and to make WA-03 a reliable, progressive seat in the future."
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