Yes! Dicker gets key endorsement

Anne Dicker, a candidate I'm whole-heartedly supporting for Pennsylvania State Senate in my home district, the First District in Philadelphia, picked up a key endorsement today. The national board of Democracy for America gave Dicker its first non-federal endorsement in the mid-Atlantic region, and I'm very happy to hear it. Dicker needs all the support she can get - not because she's a weak candidate - not at all - but it's that she's up against big labor in Philadelphia, and that can be tough to beat. But, I'm very confident she's going to do it. Between Dicker, Johnny Dougherty and Larry Farnese, she's easily the strongest candidate of the three. Take a minute to visit her Website when you have a minute and see what she's all about, and go to one of her local events in the coming days and weeks. Tomorrow it will be exactly three weeks until the Democratic Primary - click on her Website to donate, if you can - even $5 will help if that's all you can spare.

Of course, the Democratic battle between Hillary and Obama is getting most of the local and regional press, but who wins and controls the Senate in Harrisburg is at the very least as important to all Pennsylvanians. We need new, Progressive blood in Harrisburg, and Anne more than fits the bill.

Even better news - I received a fundraising letter in the mail from the Dicker campaign today, and according to her letter, she's very close to Dougherty and well ahead of Farnese, which I'm happy to hear, because Farnese, by most accounts, is the departing Senator Vince Fumo's man, and Fumo puts the sleaze in sleazy.

I'll be blogging plenty about this race in the coming days, so stay tuned. My wife and I also hope to be doing some volunteer work for the Dicker campaign as well - we've signed up and we're waiting to hear from them.