In California’s congressional district 36, stretching from West LA south to San Pedro, community leader Marcy Winograd has announced the hiring of two professional campaign staff members who are joining the Winograd for Congress campaign

Daniel Tamm, who worked on staff for the winning campaigns of Obama For America, State Senator Fran Pavley and the newly-elected Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, will direct the campaign. Winograd For Congress also has begun working with Mona Sanchez, a professional fundraiser, who helped raise over a million dollars for Wendy Gruel's successful race for Los Angles city controller.

Candidate Marcy Winograd said “I am very exited to be working with both Daniel and Mona. They bring valuable professional campaign experience. They know what it takes to win.”

By Dave Lindorff

Some critics have written, in response to my article
calling for extension of the single-payer plan called Medicare to all
Americans, that actually Medicare is a badly flawed program that leaves
America's elderly without coverage for many important health services,
and which requires them to pay for supplemental insurance, or to go on
Medicaid, too.

By Norman Solomon

There are many reasons why progressives will mobilize behind the campaign of Marcy Winograd, who announced on Monday that she’ll challenge incumbent Congresswoman Jane Harman in the 2010 Democratic primary.

Some will speak of Harman’s pro-war record. Some will recall her support for warrantless wiretapping, followed by her irony-free indignation when it turned out that NSA snoops had taped her own phone conversations. Some will recount Harman’s long public silence after being briefed on torture by the U.S. government.

And then there’s the extensive evidence that Rep. Harman has gone over the top to do the bidding of the Israeli government and some of its most extreme supporters in the United States.

Look out Bush Democrats - here comes Accountability Now. But its success depends on our ability to find more primary challengers. If you know one, tell them!

Jane Hamsher writes,

Primary challenges work.  The threat of a primary challenge in 2010 will change behavior in 2008.  The question is -- how can we create a system where we aren't dependent on chance for a Donna Edwards (or Ned Lamont) to emerge?