The Progressive Dems Endorsment Page Is Up

Filed in National by on August 20, 2008

It is worth taking a look and it contains links to all of the endorsed candidates.

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  1. Amazed says:
    August 20, 2008 at 11:35 am

    No endorsement for Ins. Commissioner?

  2. June says:
    August 20, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Nope. Committee couldn’t reach a majority vote.

  3. Mike Matthews says:
    August 20, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I’d like to know the names of those individuals who voted for Reed on the committee. Someone needs to check their heads!

  4. PBaumbach says:
    August 20, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    The six members on the PDD Endorsement committee met with each of the 3 IC candidates, reviewed each of their surveys, and talked amongst ourselves at great length.

    The three Democratic IC candidates each have wonderful strengths (certainly including Gene Reed–his experience within the department is clearly head and shoulders above the other two candidates) and each has areas of concern (again, certainly including Gene Reed). The six of us ultimately assign weights to each positive and negative trait, and share our tallies.

    The six of us bring six different backgrounds, and approach each race and each candidate differently. This diversity is wonderful. We also, all six, have been quite successful in sharing our perspectives with each other, and in carefully considering each other’s perspectives.

    It is impossible for anyone who has gone through the process that our committee follows to not see several strengths of Gene Reed, and to not see reasons for the PDD to endorse his candidacy. Our process is designed to reveal these strengths and reasons. It also, however, is designed to only endorse those candidates that a majority of the committee feel are deserving of PDD’s seal of approval (where the strengths clearly outweigh the negatives). This is an intentionally high bar. No Democratic candidate for Insurance Commissioner cleared that bar this summer.

  5. X Stryker says:
    August 20, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Any endorsements in the Coons/Gordon race? Or City Council President?

  6. PBaumbach says:
    August 20, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    There are no PDD endorsements in those two NCC races.

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