Blue America's Mothers' Day Senate Endorsement: Jeff Merkley
Even if Bernie, Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris wins next year, without a strong and more progressive Congress, the issues they're campaigning on won't go anywhere. It appears likely that the Democrats will retain their big majority in the House.
The Senate-- and obstructionist Mitch McConnell-- remain a real impediment to progress.
Blue America will be rolling out Senate endorsements over the next few months. The first is for an old and proven friend, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who we supported when he first ran and have never felt let down since. One of the few senators with deep working class roots, he has been a stalwart fighter for the progressive agenda day in and day out.
He worries that "the privileged and powerful have rigged our political system and our economy. He worries that a new generation of robber barons is looting the nation and mortgaging our collective future. And what Jeff talks most about with his constituents in Oregon are the three crises that have to be dealt with even before the specific bills Jeff and allies like Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown and Mazie Hirono, Ed Markey, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Tammy Baldwin want to pass: