The Democratic Machine in Brooklyn is corrupt as can be. Chris is anti-machine. The machine candidate is Carl Andrews, who was the right hand man of the now imprisoned Clarence Norman and a major Hillary supporter. Yassky has ties with Schumer. Now neither Hillary nor Chuck have endorsed, but it would be hard for the party to go for Chris with the local machine going for Carl and with perceived potential support for Carl and David from the Senators. The party is wisely staying far away from backing anyone in this race. He does have his father's backing as well as the backing of a whole slew of Congressmen. By far the candidate with the strongest CONGRESSIONAL support is Chris--Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, and a whole bunch of others. Progressive Democratic Congressmen want Chris.

I really think Chris IS the progressive candiate (as his long list of progressive organizations indicates) and he does stand with the community. Those are true statements. The fact that he is is father's son doesn't change that any more than the fact that his brother was on the Cosby show. Chris really rocks and I would lay money (well, not really...I don't have the money to bet) that you would like him as well if you got to know him.