Blue America's Donna Edwards
FDL is hosting a chat with our very own and most excellent Donna Edwards.
Within an hour of Wynn's concession Donna had written an e-mail to Blue America to say thanks. The next morning she had sent us a video thanking the community for our 3 years of efforts on her behalf. Of course, those 3 years are a two-way street, a crucial one, and one where lesser candidates may well have given up and said the odds were too steep, the chances too slim. Donna never gave up.
Today I'm 100% confident that we've helped elect not "more Democrats" (the hell with that) but a "better Democrat." And a leader, a leader for a national, values-based progressive movement. It's with the greatest pleasure that we welcome Donna Edwards back to Firedoglake this afternoon, a friend and a pathfinder.
If you have a minute---go over and say hi. And I want to thank you all because with your help---Donna Edwards is our newest Congresswoman in Maryland....
Oh, okay.
Primary challenges are the voter's only way of reminding incumbents that they are supposed to represent the voters, not the cocktail weenies of the DC party circuit.
Already over there. Come join us, John.
I hope this is a reminder to the DNC that qualifications and alignment with the voter's will are ultimately more important than incumbency and being a party syncophant.
populists unite!!!
I sent Donna an email on the night of the election to offer my congratulations.
I started off by saying that I didn't need, or expect a reply.... I just wanted to share in the moment of happiness.
Well, this morning I received a thank you from her anyway.
Donna Edwards is a class act. We need more like her in congress this fall.
A primary challenge for Nancy Pelosi this year would have been SWEET!
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