NPE Action previously endorsed nine Senate candidates:
Mark Kelly-Arizona
Jon Ossoff-Georgia
Theresa Greenfield-Iowa
Barbara Bollier-Kansas
Amy McGrath-Kentucky
Sara Gideon-Maine
Steve Bullock-Montana
Cal Cunningham-North Carolina
Jaime Harrison-South Carolina
We endorse three more candidates for the United States Senate:
Doug Jones-Alabama
Gary Peters-Michigan
M.J. Hegar-Texas
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is becoming a significantly sizable list. Does NPE endorsement mean these potential Senate winners are anti-Ed Reform…or is it the less meaningful “better than the other candidate”?
It means that in their public statements, they support Oublic schools and have not to our knowledge openly supported privatization.
Doug Jones in Alabama is good representative. I hope the black vote shows up for him. His opponent is a misogynist, racist football coach.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein won’t run again until 2025. She’s an establishment Dem and, she hugged (sans mask) Lindsay Graham, thanking him for his leadership of the Barrett hearing.
Her husband was in the news last week for the recommendations he wrote on behalf of his friends’ kids who sought admittance to the public university where he serves on the Board. In answer to a reporter’s question, he said he didn’t know it was wrong, nobody told him.
The 99% deserve better than Republicans and establishment Dems like Feinstein and her husband.
I don’t like Diane Feinstein, but I DO like Sheldon Whitehouse, and he is just as representative of “establishment Dems” as Feinstein.
Nine of the ten “establishment” Democrats on that committee were bringing up very important issues. One is long past her time and needs to resign.
Can you imagine if there were NO Democrats and the entire government was controlled by the wishes of the 12 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who actually made Diane Feinstein look like a left wing radical!? Their lovefest with Judge Barrett was truly disgusting.
So, let’s get real. We can have a government led by a Republican party that is 100% in lockstep with the 12 out of 12 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee who make Feinstein look like a “socialist”.
Or we can have a government led by a Democratic party in which Diane Feinstein — who is still to the far left of the most “moderate” of those 12 Republicans — represents the most conservative 10% of the Democrats!
With 90% of the Democrats represented by Sheldon Whitehouse and even more progressive types, I’ll certainly take that over the ranting right wing Republican Senators on the Judiciary committee.
PS — it would not at all surprise me if Feinstein decides to step down before 2025, especially if Biden wins. I would put money on her stepping down within a year or two if Biden wins.
Linda,
By the way, I actually think that if progressives were smart, they would use that hug by forming a group with anonymous donors that runs lots of ads about how Lindsay Graham is Diane Feinstein’s favorite Republican.
On loop, over and over again, they can play Feinstein’s praise of Lindsay Graham and their hug on every right wing media source and on Facebook ads targeted to those who believe everything they read in right wing media. They can associate Lindsay Graham as the BFF of Diane Feinstein.
If they did, and convinced right wing Republicans that the Feinstein-Graham hug showed how Graham is very friendly with Democrats, the main beneficiary would be Jaime Harrison!!
Harrison did his best when Trump voters decided Lindsay Graham was not right wing enough.
It would be terrific if that hug was merely a pretense to hurt Lindsay Graham and help Jaime Harrison. Even if Feinstein didn’t intend it that way, it can certainly be used to Jaime Harrison’s advantage. Because the only thing that has helped Lindsay Graham’s poll numbers in the last week is his pushing the Supreme Court justice. If he gets associated as being Diane Feinstein’s BFF again, and South Carolina voters on the far right stop liking him again, that would definitely help Jaime Harrison!
The person hurt most by that hug should be Lindsay Graham!
I like the ad idea.
Feinstein is symbolic of everything that is wrong with the Senate. She is not very smart–won’t get into why I write that, confidential, she is a horrible boss–won’t get into why I write that, confidential, and writing as a former constituent of hers, she could not give a damn about the people in her state. Nor is she much of a Democrat. She has reached the position because of longevity and that is due to the media-driven politics of the state she represents.
Much is rightly made of the inequity that sparsely populated states have the same representation as large states like California, New York or Texas. But in smaller states, constituent services and actual contact with people actually matters. In larger states, it is all about creating a media image. The distance between elected senators and the people they represent is vast. These senators generally are corporate in the approach to their job and duties. Feinstein is the best example of this. She lets her staff deal with the little people and rarely, if ever, gets out of her gets out of her hermetically sealed, eider down-lined bubble.
The best thing that ever happened to her career were the assassinations of George Mosconi and Harvey Milk. Had they lived, we never would have heard of Feinstein. If only.
500 count sheets.
Agree, if only…
I agree with all your criticisms of Feinstein, but she is probably the very worst representation of that kind of Senator. And Kamala Harris is more like what the Senators of the future will hopefully be.
Michael Moore wrote an amazingly positive post about Kamala Harris and how good she was on criminal justice reform issues in the Senate. He knew that the characterizations used about her to get African American voters to stay home and not trust her were a lie.
I think Feinstein seems quite ready to retire soon. She probably stays because she has a lot of people working for her who want to keep their job. I wonder if those people are part of the problem — she is out of touch because her entire staff is full of entitled folks who have been in their job way too long. I hope she is pressured to retire ASAP after Biden wins.
I skipped the Trump Halloween Special tonight. I have a strong stomach, but enough.
And the Amy CON-ey Barrett confirmation makes it extremely important that we flip the Senate and give her a lot of text to try to misinterpret.
We need the election
to remove the infection
every time i turn on the local news (houston area, texas) in the mornings the past few weeks, there’s at least five short ads every day that have just attacked hegar by insisting she’ll create some sort of socialist utopia in Texas (or rather, the uninformed, fear-mongering die-hard republican idea of what basic democrats want). And then to have Cornyn stick his foot in it and double down on supporting Dump, even after all this mess?
It was hard not to laugh. Oh yeah, the folks to vote for are becoming so much clearer every day.