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 Progressive politics heat up (excerpt)
By Mike Tabor
"For the first time, Senator Ida Rubin is being challenged by a true progressive - one with superb national and local credentials." -The Voice
The biggest problem with Maryland politics is our own lack of knowledge, vigilance, involvement and participation. The hacks, crooks and incompetents who tend to dominate politics are there because we don't get involved!
So, the upcoming primaries and elections mean there's opportunity for us to make a difference and resolve, with the New Year, to get involved in one or more campaigns. Probably the most relevant campaign for those of us in Silver Spring and Takoma Park is Jamin Raskin's bid for the Maryland Senate in the 20th District. For the first time, Senator Ida Rubin is being challenged by a true progressive - one with superb national and local credentials. Raskin is a professor of constitutional law at American University and director of its Program on Law and Government. A former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, Raskin, a Takoma Park resident native to the area, is an active public interest lawyer and chaired a key state labor board in Maryland. He is also the founder of the National Marshall-Brennan program that sends law students into public high schools to teach a course in constitutional literacy and the author of We the Students. Most recently, he is the pro-bono attorney successfully representing some low-income Takoma Park tenants facing eviction due to condo conversion. Jamin Raskin is going to have a tough battle to change old habits. Liberal groups like Progressive Maryland and the Montgomery County teachers union (MCEA) think they have no choice but to throw their support behind Ruben, who has backed some of their issues over the decades but is, at best, a machine-style middle of the road politician. So, for progressives, it will come down to fundraising, door knocking, grassroots organizing and an army of volunteers in order to mount a winning reform campaign. In a perfect world, the classiest move Ruben could make would be to take US Senator Paul Sarbanes' lead, recognize that Democrats need an infusion of fresh new leadership, exit with her reputation intact, shake Jamie's hand as a gesture of "passing the baton" and make way for a fine progressive Democrat.... In the next several months, I'll be highlighting each of the candidates and issues. In the meantime, here's how to get involved and how to contact candidates:
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