NOAM CHOMSKY ENDORSES JOHN LAESCH

Chomsky gets it right-- unlike Rahm Emanuel

Like I said last week, there is no political campaign coming up this winter that is more important than the race to replace Denny Hastert in Illinois' 14th congressional district. The Republicans can be counted on to nominate a far right extremist. On February 5, Democrats are choosing between a real progressive fighter, John Laesch, and a puppet of the Insider special interests, a wealthy Rahm Emanuel shill named Bill Foster.

I got an insider tip that in a week or two John Laesch, who has been endorsed by virtually every Democratic Party county chair in the district-- as opposed to the Washington Insider crowd looking to install Foster-- is going to get a major Illinois endorsement. Today, however, he got two other endorsements-- one that was expected and one that was unexpected and very interesting. Late in December PDA, Progressive Democrats of America had endorsed him (unanimously). Today the campaign announced that the national PDA also endorsed John. It makes sense because he's the progressive candidate in the race and the reactionary and Establishment forces in the Democratic Party have been trying to undercut him.

But the Noam Chomsky endorsement, which is logical, was certainly not expected by anyone.

Noam Chomsky was an unexpected and exciting endorsement for us. One of our volunteers, a big fan of Chomsky, took it upon himself to email him about the race and give him some information about John. We were very pleasantly surprised to see that Chomsky responded, stating he would be "pleased to be listed as an endorser." We are pleased to add Chomsky to our growing list of progressive luminaries, including Studs Terkel, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dr. Quentin Young and Mike Malloy.

Perhaps this moves you to reach for your credit card and help John pull this off? You can do it at the Blue America ActBlue page.


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You can vote here. John is on the list of nominees as are several other Blue America candidates (although Donna Edwards isn't). The major endorsement I was mentioning for John will be announced on Wednesday. This trumps-- big time-- whatever shills Emanuel manages to round up for his Blue Dog hack.