Quarterly grades for the House Democratic freshmen
by digby
Howie has an interesting post up today in which he grades the freshman class of House Democrats based upon their record so far. It’s quite illuminating.
Time to grade the Democratic freshmen– or at least to pick out the 10 best and the 10 worst. Which ones lived up to what Alan Grayson laid out in his little monologue above? And which served the interest of careerism and corporate special interests above the interests of their own constituents? Short version– for people in a hurry– here are two lists (alphabetized), the 10 best, followed b the 10 worst:
THE BEST:
• Tony Cardenas (D-CA)
• Matt Cartwright (D-PA)
• Alan Grayson (D-FL)
• Jared Huffman (D-CA)
• Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
• Joe Kennedy (D-MA)
• Alan Lowenthal (D-CA)
• Grace Meng (D-NY)
• Rick Nolan (D-MN)
• Mark Pocan (D-WI)THE WORST:
• Cheri Bustos (D-IL)
• Pete Gallego (Blue Dog-TX)
• Joe Garcia (New Dem-FL)
• Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ)
• Dan Maffei (New Dem-NY)
• Sean Patrick Maloney (New Dem-NY)
• Patrick Murphy (New Dem-FL)
• Scott Peters (New Dem-CA)
• Raul Ruiz (D-CA)
• Kyrsten Sinema (New Dem-AZ)
Not a lot of surprises there to me although a couple I had hoped would be on the best list aren’t there as well as a couple I assumed would be on the worst list. It’s early days yet so maybe some are getting their sea legs. Still, some patterns are emerging, which you can see in his post breaking down the individual votes and what they meant. Fascinating stuff.
Blue America doesn’t bat a thousand. Nobody does. But we have a pretty good track record. And I will say that I couldn’t be prouder to have supported Matt Cartwright in his bid to unseat that unreconstructed corporate shill Tim Holden. So far he’s been an excellent progressive congressman.
If you want more like him and Alan Grayson you can support them here.
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