I read an
article in the LAT this morning about Gavin Newsom that made me wonder who other prominent younger Democrats are. The article quoted New Democrat Network founder Simon Rosenberg as follows:
"It's amazing how many people have said to me, 'Isn't that the guy you told us to help? We didn't know anything about him then, but he's an amazing guy,' " Rosenberg said. "I think people really have very big expectations for him in the long term. He is arguably the single most-promising Democrat under 40 in the country."
Rosenberg is a really smart guy, a New Democrat ideologically who nonetheless had a huge deal of respect for Dean and who's NDN has been the only Dem organization to make a major appeal to the hispanic community with their Democratas Unidos program.
That quote led me to wonder who other prominent Democrats under 40 are. The only one that comes to mind is newly installed Democratic California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez whos father was a gardener and whos mother was a maid and who grew up in the barrio in San Diego. Nunez is handsome, well-spoken and I think very likely to become governor in 2010.
So I want to know, who are the most prominent under-40 Democrats?