I’m sure I am not the only person here who is on the mailing list for Brand New Congress. Yesterday they announce their first candidate, Cori Bush, running in Missouri’s First district.
The endorsement announcement asked for money and did not mention the incumbent, who I looked up: Wm Lacy Clay.
So how is Clay? Does he deserve to be replaced? Brand New Congress says they are going to run an entire slate of new candidates. That seem like overkill. We do have some excellent Democratic representatives. But I would love to see my Democratic representative, Dutch Ruppersberger, replaced.
So my question is, should I donate to Cori Bush both to make a statement and to seek her election, or would that be misplaced? I know nothing about the incumbent.
I may not be around to respond to comments — I didn’t really want to write a diary on this but I could not find one out there. I don’t want to know what Markos thinks about BNC — I can guess. But I want to know what less cynical and less mainstream progressive activists think who are plugged in.