…with help from Progressive Democrats of Delaware and Delaware Liberal contributors. The writer here also runs the Blue Progressive PAC and was looking for some input from the locals on John Carney’s progressive cred. You can see the full blog post over at Down With Tyranny here. The key evaluation comes from Rebecca, I think:
John is a solid Democrat with solid Democratic values. Having said that, he’s also a pragmatist. He won’t let perfection get in the way of progress. He got pretty beaten up at the last Progressive Dems for Delaware meeting and he never did disavow the Blue Dogs– at least that’s what I heard. His reply was along the lines of what I said above. He’s willing to take incremental steps forward if that’s all he can realistically get. John will never be like Rep. Grayson from Florida, but he is solid on his progressive values, and he knows how to work legislation. On the other hand, his campaign style is very centrist. I guess he feels safe there.
DWT also gets to something pretty key about John Carney’s current presentation to the world — neither his website or his Facebook page are really set up to tell you much about him or his positions yet. Maybe it is early, but once Castle announces, I would hope that someone around him would remind him that he is defacto on the national stage. I really hope that this data gets beyond the boilerplate soon.