proud2Blib is there; look for her reports.
'Take Back America' Conference Is a Chance for Democrats to Highlight Progressive Politics
By Chris Cillizza And Shailagh Murray
Sunday, March 16, 2008; Page A02
Watch out, Washington: The liberals are coming.
Tomorrow kicks off the fifth annual Take Back America conference in Washington -- a gathering of groups across the progressive spectrum aimed at planning and coordinating their efforts heading into the November election and beyond.
"We are headed to what has the potential to be a sea-change election, not just a change election," said Bob Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future and one of the founders of the conference.
Sensing an opportunity not only to regain the White House but also to secure significant majorities in Congress to push a progressive agenda, Borosage and Roger Hickey, who is also affiliated with the Campaign for America's Future, see the conference as a chance for the ideological left to let its voice be heard.
More than 2,000 people will attend the gathering, to be held, as was its ideological alter ego, the Conservative Political Action Conference, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
"This is the last chance to compare notes and coordinate what is going to be a massive undertaking," Hickey said.
That word "coordination" is something rather new in the progressive movement, which, Borosage and Hickey acknowledged, long was symbolized by a series of "silos" in which each individual group operated.
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