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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.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:47 am

Comments

I don’t know why everyone neglects to mention Napoleon Harris. He’s running.

Comment by Dan Johnson Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:47 am
Only in Illinois could you be supported by the Daleys and Ed Burke and be considered the outsider.

Comment by Westside 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.

Comment by Stones Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 8:53 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.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:00 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.

Comment by Almost the Weekend Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:10 am
I’m always humored when Congressmen and Senators are referred to as “outsiders”.

Comment by Team Sleep Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:20 am
Friendly amendment for Westside: only reporters from outside Illinois would call a Daley-backed candidate an outsider.

Comment by Elo Kiddies Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:24 am
Case of out-of-town-stupid by the NYT.

Comment by Wordslinger Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:28 am
Sometimes when you’ve got a narrative, you just stick to it.

Comment by Anon 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.

Comment by VanillaMan Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 9:32 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.

Comment by The Historian Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 11:49 am
historian, I did not go that far.

Comment by Wordslinger Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 11:54 am
Compared to the “insider” nature of Tammy Duckworth, Andrea Zopp may as well be an “outsider”, anti-establishment candidate.

Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 12:24 pm
I almost stopped reading when I read Alan Grayson. he’s not my idea of a rational Democrat.

Comment by Amalia Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 1:34 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.

Comment by Hank Thursday, Oct 8, 15 @ 2:10 pm