Daniel Biss practically was just a kid when DWT started covering his ideas about what could be accomplished in politics. When I first met him, in 2007, he told me that folks in Illinois "believe government is capable of benefiting people.
So... as we discussed over the weekend, the DCCC and the Beltway consultants are telling their client candidates in tough primaries to just lie about healthcare. They tell the conservatives they back that the words "Medicare for all" don't really mean anything and that it's OK to use them as long as they don't get tied down in a pledge to sign onto John Conyers' H.R. 676, the actual very specific Medicare-For-All bill.
