To everyone who has stated we need to flush the party of 3rd way

[MrMickeysMom]

58. I ran and won twice as the kind of candidate you'd desire & can weigh on this subject...

What would you like to know about my 5 years of hard work in municipal government as a progressive Democrat?

How about how my campaign, which I financed along with close friends and family? I could go straight to the part where persons disappointed in my not being owned by the local version of Boss Tweed / Tammany Hall Democratic machine, after failing to buy me, serially set me up for failure. After the initial (special) election that won me my ward seat, and after having failed to defeat me in the second election, the machine's gloves came off, even though a few more persons joined me on that council, all progressive and transparent. I always asked the hard questions.

We did good things, and then we were sued over what some of our transparency revealed. I'm still unable to disclose more on that. Suffice to say, there are a whole new set of council members as of this year, who are the local version of the DCCC/financed by Boss Tweed again. One changed from a Republican to Democrat to qualify for that financing.

This in part may explain why it is so frustrating and difficult to reach around a local system of campaign finance, tied to favors and third party candidates up the chain of this corrupt state. Indeed, it is presently a very, very hard process. The rewards of serving are in knowing that you do the right thing, but that is a virtue of waning proportion. Plus, there's the money thing.

They are starving us out. Tom Wolf is a millionaire and financed himself against Tom Corbett… ran a clean and positive campaign and I am thankful that we have gotten rid of that fascist of the oil and gas industry, TomCorbett. But, I don't envy what Wolf is up against. Sure, because of the majority of our General Assembly, but many of them are 3rd way Democrats. I can't believe these people don't read the bills before them, more recently Act 13, which was penned by ALEC. They are all tied into the re-election of that same process.

Something is clearly wrong, but the problem isn't the potential pool of candidates. We've always been here and willing to work REGARDLESS of the price.