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? 

Earlier this year, our Accountability Now PAC raised money for the purpose of holding our elected officials accountable.  We have been working since then to try and figure out the best way to use that money, and ultimately decided that it could best be used trying to find more candidates like Donna Edwards.

So Accountability Now brought together partners including MoveOn, SEIU, They Work for Us, Color of Change, the Steelworkers, DailyKos and BlogPAC and are funding a project to look at districts across the country and try to figure out where we can find great candidates to challenge incumbents who have become more responsive to corporate America than they have to their constituents...

So please help us get started by telling us if you know great progressive leaders in your community who deserve support.  Taking on incumbents is extremely difficult, and often times good challengers won't step forward because they don't think they can martial the resources required to be successful.  We want to find these people, evaluate them and let them know that we are here and we can help them.

Let us know about great progressive leaders in your community here.

Listen to Hamsher's interview with Glenn Greenwald.