Progressive champ Carl Sciortino (D. MA-05) is slamming his primary rival Katherine Clark (D. MA-05) for supporting unpopular propositions such as cutting Social Security in order to achieve a Grand Bargain:
Today the Boston Globe ran an editorial highlighting State Senator Katherine Clark's willingness to compromise away the Social Security and Medicare benefits our seniors have earned through a lifetime of hard work.
They called her position "mature."
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Here's the article from the Boston Globe by the way:
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Clark, who is 50, has been in the Legislature since 2008, having previously served as the chairwoman of the Melrose School Committee and in various public-advocacy legal positions in Massachusetts and Colorado, from which she moved to the Bay State in 1995. Rather than downplay the fact that she spent her early adulthood in another state, Clark wisely touts it as a credential — a means of understanding how people think in other parts of the country, which could help to build new coalitions in Congress.
Clark has clear goals. Most of all, she wants to be the congresswoman who brings universal pre-kindergarten to the children of America. She knows it will be a long fight, and that she must draw conservatives to her side. But she’s ready to begin that work on day one. In addition, she speaks sensibly about reaching out to members of Congress from the “wind corridor” that runs through the central part of the country, boosting support for government backing of wind power, which would help Massachusetts’ own energy industry.
Clark shares the liberal values of many Fifth District Democrats, but has shown herself to be a strategic thinker; her willingness to support a “grand bargain” to trim the long-term federal deficit, even if it includes some provisions that are disappointing to liberals, is a sign of maturity. After all the debates and committee hearings and mark-ups of bills, a member of Congress must decide whether, on balance, a piece of legislation moves the nation forward. Clark’s refusal to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good suggests she would be a productive lawmaker. - Boston Globe, 10/10/13
Emphasis mine.