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Mike Lux Event in San Francisco
On February 15, 2009, Mike Lux energized an audience of some 75 progressives at the Mercury Lounge in San Francisco. Referring to his new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, Lux put events of the tumultuous recent past in historical context. He spoke about the conflict taking place since the time of the nation’s founding between progressive advances for the common good and conservative retrenchments that favor the wealthy.
Big $$ for Progressive Politics
On December 13, 2004, a month after the re-election of George W. Bush,
twenty-five of the wealthiest donors in the progressive community
gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington for an important
strategy session. The group had collectively poured hundreds of
millions of dollars into the effort to defeat Bush--and had nothing to
show for it. Yet the despair of John Kerry's defeat provided an urgent
call to arms. "The US didn't enter World War II until Japan bombed Pearl
Harbor," Erica Payne, a New York political consultant who helped
organize the gathering, told the donors. "We just had our Pearl Harbor."
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