Unclear on the concept
Thursday, Oct 8, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* New York Times…
Impatience with politics-as-usual has also led liberals to enter Democratic Senate primaries and mount more aggressive and well-financed challenges than in years past to candidates backed by the national party establishment.
In Florida, Representative Alan Grayson, a self-styled “progressive champion,” is portraying Representative Patrick Murphy, the Democratic Party’s preferred candidate for the seat being vacated by Senator Marco Rubio, as a “lightweight, empty-suit errand boy for Wall Street.” A former president of the Chicago Urban League, Andrea Zopp, is running in Illinois against the party-backed Representative Tammy Duckworth. And former Representative Joe Sestak is running as a liberal anti-establishment candidate in Pennsylvania.
Bill Daley’s candidate is lumped in with Grayson and Sestak?
That’s gotta be a first.
- Dan Johnson - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:47 am:
I don’t know why everyone neglects to mention Napoleon Harris. He’s running.
- Westside - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:53 am:
Only in Illinois could you be supported by the Daleys and Ed Burke and be considered the outsider.
- Stones - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:53 am:
It is troubling that both parties seem to be moving away from the center and towards the fringes. Compromise seems to be a dirty word. Frankly, I don’t know why anyone, regardless of their beliefs, would want to get involved anymore in this political atmosphere.
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:00 am:
===I don’t know why everyone neglects to mention Napoleon Harris. He’s running.===
Exactly! He is the only interesting thing in this race. Former NFL player running for Senator. Come on, let’s get a little coverage here.
- Almost the Weekend - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:10 am:
I’ll never forget Bill Daley holding a press conference outside a UAW Hall in East Peoria when he was running for governor (for 4.5 days). I’m sure the UAW wouldn’t let him inside, but to even think about hosting a press conference there after helping pass NAFTA is an insult to labor.
- Team Sleep - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:20 am:
I’m always humored when Congressmen and Senators are referred to as “outsiders”.
- Elo Kiddies - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:24 am:
Friendly amendment for Westside: only reporters from outside Illinois would call a Daley-backed candidate an outsider.
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:28 am:
Case of out-of-town-stupid by the NYT.
- Anon - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:32 am:
Sometimes when you’ve got a narrative, you just stick to it.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:32 am:
With a slight change of wardrobe, Andrea Zopp would appear about as much an outsider in corporate politics as Ronald McDonald.
- The Historian - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 11:49 am:
Per Word, the NYT nowadays is qualitatively not what it used to be 10 or 15 years ago. Everyone here knows plenty about the decline of once far-better newspapers, but it’s not only a Chicago phenomenon, & NYT’s politics coverage has measurably weakened.
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 11:54 am:
historian, I did not go that far.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 12:24 pm:
Compared to the “insider” nature of Tammy Duckworth, Andrea Zopp may as well be an “outsider”, anti-establishment candidate.
- Amalia - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
I almost stopped reading when I read Alan Grayson. he’s not my idea of a rational Democrat.
- Hank - Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
Napoleon Harris said he was running to the Cook County Dems. Then told Springfield reporters he was still just considering it. If the guy wants coverage, he can make up his mind first.