"This is about the people, a groundswell for democratic leadership for America," Winograd said.
"When Congressman John Conyers wrote a letter to Bush asking him to explain the Downing Street Memo, and 120 Congress Members signed it, Harman didn't," activist David Swanson wrote in an article.
"When Barbara Lee introduced a Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Memo, and over 100 Members co-sponsored it, Harman didn't," Swanson wrote.
"Holt's inquiry into the Plame leak? Uh-uh."
" Barbara Lee's commission on pre-war intelligence? Not Harman."
"Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere," Swanson wrote.
"If we're to get lucky in 2006, in taking back Congress, then we need to be a party of the vision of a better America, and not that panders to the Bush administration's edict of eternal war and militarism," Winograd said.
The pre-endorsement process for Harman's seat occurred last week. It was a meeting of 104 delegates, including a vote on whether to endorse a candidate for pre-endorsement prior to convention. "Usually it's a no brainer, Harman should be able to sail through that. 70% is needed," Winograd told Atlanta Progressive News.
"We picked up 35%. So it sent some shock waves for the Democratic Party in California. This isn't to say she won't get it later, but it sent a message that there's less than full confidence in her leadership," Winograd said.
"There are a lot of people who don't realize there are 132 members of Congress who opposed Iraq war vote," Winograd said she has discovered during her campaign. "She [Harman] championed the war. She sat on the Intelligence Committee. She did not pursue the objections, the questions raised,"
"The question is, did she read the objections, did she read them and ignore them, what happened?" Winograd exclaimed.
"Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for nuclear weapons, opposing the International Criminal Court," Winograd said.
"There are a lot of people who are hungry for real leadership," Winograd said, adding she would support US Rep. Conyers's bill, H. Res 635, calling for a Select Committee to look into the grounds of Bush's impeachment, if she were in office.
"For every action there's a reaction," Winograd said. Some members of the Democratic Party have swung to the conservative right, and "that has triggered an absolute reaction from progressives who say we want our country back," Winograd said.
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