Like so many other regulars here I have been depressed with the lack of ideas and guts from the Dems. Well I went to a meeting the other night in my district to meet a candidate, Steve Kagen, for the 8th district which has been held by Repug Mark Green who has never voted against the presnit, and has taken large sums of money from Tom DeLay's PAC. Green is leaving to run for Gov. of Wisconsin and thus leaves a very takeable seat for the Dems. There will be a primary contest but Kagen has several things going for him. First, check his website
http://kagen4congress.com/
for his plan for health care and other details about him, it is a new and innovative approach from a guy who is not afraid to speak out.
Second, a little history, his father helped rebuild the Democratic Party in Wisconsin in the 1960s, a friend of Proxmier and Pat Lucy, and ran for the same seat as an anti-war candiate in 1966 way ahead of most Dems back then. And, Steve is also against the debacle in Iraq and in many ways way ahead of many Dems today