A progressive candidate the DU can get behind

[Omaha Steve]

Jamie Raskin is a three-term Democratic State Senator in Maryland, the Senate Majority Whip, and a dynamic leader of the progressive forces in Annapolis who has been at the center of the breakthrough policy changes Maryland has experienced over the last decade. A professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for the last 25 years, Jamie has also taught at Yale Law School and has had thousands of students and authored several books, including the Washington Post Bestseller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People about conservative judicial activism and the acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about America’s Students. Jamie is the founder, with the families of Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which has sent law students at 20 law schools across the country into public high schools to teach thousands of high school students about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the meanings of constitutional freedom and democracy.

As a State Senator first elected in 2006 in a landslide upset (67% in the primary) running as a reformer against a 32-year incumbent who was President Pro Tem of the Senate, Raskin quickly became a leading policy thinker and legislative coalition-builder in Annapolis who helped deliver a series of landmark legislative accomplishments that have changed life in Maryland:

Norm Solomon sent out an email praising him.


https://jamieraskin.com/about-jamie

I'm not making anymore Act Blue pages at this point. You can donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/jamie-raskin-3

Looks like he has lots of friends already.

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[Gregorian]

1. This is how we get our party back!

Thank you!

[Stuart G]

2. He is running against Kathleen Matthews, Chris Mathews wife..and 4 or 5 others.

Both have lots of money..She is the former chief communications and public affairs officer for Marriott International leading global hotel company based in Bethesda, Maryland... Prior to joining Marriott International, she was a reporter for 25 years at WJLA-TV. From what I can tell, she has no political or legislative experience.

The primary election will be April 26, 2016