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Progressive-around-town Adam Green has set up a Facebook group called I support a real progressive against Arlen Specter, which is what it sounds like: a

Jul 31, 2020116.7K Shares2.3M Views
Progressive-around-town Adam Green has set up a Facebook groupcalled “I support a real progressive against Arlen Specter,” which is what it sounds like: a place to pledge $25 if a more liberal candidate runs against Specter in the Democratic primary. So far they have 286 members, which would make for $7150, which isn’t nothing, but I’m more interested in the early adopters:
  • Tom Swan, who managed Ned Lamont’s 2006 Senate campaign.
  • Bob Fertik of Democrats.com, who you used to see at every liberal event pushing for the impeachment of former President George W. Bush.
  • Paul Hogarth of BeyondChron.
  • Todd Beeton of MyDD.com.
  • John Arovosis of AmericaBlog.com.
So some of the people you’d expect to join this, but not really a landslide of anti-Specter sentiment. I can think of dozens of prominent progressives who have not joined this particular cause.
Paula M. Graham

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