Progressive Patty
Senator Patricia “Patty” Murray (shown) of Washington State is a progressive Democrat seeking reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Her involvement in politics began in the 1980s, when she successfully organized and led a coalition of 13,000 parents to prevent budget cuts to a local preschool program. This noble act earned her the admiration of her community, which went on to elect her to the local school board. In an upset election in 1988, Murray defeated two-term incumbent Republican State Senator Bill Kiskaddon of the state’s First District.
Continuing her rise to power, Murray was then elected to the U.S. Senate on the coattails of Bill Clinton’s electoral landslide defeat of incumbent President George H.W. Bush. Although supportive of the agendas of Presidents Clinton and Barack Obama, Senator Murray has also garnered a favorable reputation among radical far-left progressives by bringing many of their key issues to the forefront.
Senator Murray’s cumulative score on The New American’s “Freedom Index,” which rates the votes of congressmen on key legislative issues based on a strict interpretation of the Constitution, is a low 10 percent. Her record in the Senate, as further examined below, is one that blurs the lines between traditional run-of-the-mill mainstream liberal Democrats and far-left radical progressives. Socialist Alternative, a radical Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyite political party, notes in a 2015 article on their website, “The labor movement and progressive activists made major efforts to elect Washington State Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.”
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