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Lin Whitworth
DSA support
In 2004 Democratic Socialists of America targeted local races where control of state houses were up for grabs and where statewide electoral-vote outcomes hinged on successful local district turnouts.[1]
- L o n g t i m e DSAer Hunter Gray calls Idaho labor activist and former state Senator Lin Whitworth “a vigorous and promising grassroots populist.” His campaign for the 2nd CD seat, which includes the capital, Boise, and all of the eastern half of the state, stresses universal health insurance in his battle against incumbent Mike Simpson. While the House features worse conservative incumbents than Simpson, there are few progressives as good as Whitworth, who gives example after example in his publication, Working Man News, of how “the Republican Congress has caused irreparable harm to working families.”.”
In Democratic Socialists of America's Democratic Left Winter 2004/2005, Theresa Alt wrote;[2]
- We reported on the candidates that DSAers were supporting in the last issue of Democratic Left. How did they do?
- Longshot progressive insurgents Al Weed in Virginia, Lin Whitworth in Idaho, Dave Franker and Tom Fiegen all lost.