(Blogged by Howie Klein) Tomorrow’s Blue America congressional candidate is Dan Maffei from an upstate New York district that encompasses all of Syracuse and goes right into the suburbs of Rochester. You can find out about all the political aspects of Dan’s race against rubber stamp stamp Republican incumbent James Walsh tomorrow at Firedoglake at 2pm (EDT). Tonight has nothing to do with politics per se. I asked Dan why he’s using Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” as his campaign theme song. Dan is a big Petty fan and he loved “Free Fallin'” when he was in college but the choice of “I Won’t Back Down” wasn’t just about his own personal battle for this congressional seat.
Dan is like a walking advertisement for the beauty and liveability of his area of the country, an area hit hard by bad economic policies that have depopulated once thriving communities as “Free Trade” extremists like Bush gave tax breaks to American companies for exporting union jobs to China and other slave-labor countries. Progressives in areas all over America in small cities and towns that have been economically devastated by terrible policies and agendas of greed and selfishness are fighting back and they really and truly will not back down.
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