2nd district choices: bad, worse, and ridiculous

(passing these bits along from the Donnelly Watch blog. - KJH)

Chances are that you may have seen the television ads running in support of extending FISA, ads that are underwritten by a right wing group called "Defense of Democracies."

Falling in line, 2nd District Republican challenger Luke Puckett issued an attack on incumbent Rep. Joe Donnelly (D - Granger) despite the fact that Donnelly, as part of group of moderate Democrats known as the Blue Dogs, actually was part of a Democratic minority in favor of extending the act.

In fact, Donnelly was one of only 7 Democrats to join last week with the GOP in voting to extend the act.

Jack Colwell, columnist for the South Bend Tribune, described the ineptitude of Donnelly's challengers in a piece published on March 2. Of course, this doesn't take much convincing given Tony Zirkle's recent statements on re-segregation (yes, you read that right).

Donnelly received some unusual exposure for a Freshman this past weekend when he delivered the Democrat's weekly radio address.

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Unless a third party or independent progressive alternative emerges in the general election, it appears progressives' choices will be bad (Donnelly) or worse (Puckett) - or ridiculous (Zirkle).

It was, however, heartening to see citizens from IU-South Bend organize to urge Donnelly to help cut the cost of birth control.

Perhaps the progressive citizenry of the 2nd district will learn from this example and act to raise their voices to urge Donnelly to turn away from his "moderate" position as a Republican behaving Democrat.