Boom! Group retreating after attacking Warren

An e-mail I rec'vd earlier today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee/BoldProgressives.org

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A corporate front group attacked Elizabeth Warren's economic populism and her progressive ideas on Social Security. We attacked back!

In one day, over 70,000 of us demanded that Third Way disclose its Wall Street donors. Elizabeth Warren joined our pressure campaign, and we generated over 10 major headlines.

Now, the Wall Street Journal reports, "a spokesman for Third Way...declined to disclose the think tank’s donors." Instead of attacking Warren, they are now playing defense in the media!

The more people sign our petition, the more headlines and pressure we'll continue to generate. Can you sign today?

Politico summarized yesterday's action-packed events:

It started with an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.

Two leaders of the center-left think tank, Third Way, wrote that “economic populism is a dead end for Democrats” [and] liberals like Warren are irresponsible.

A chorus of groups aligned with the liberal wing of the party – from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to Howard Dean’s Democracy for America and Russ Feingold’s Progressives United – responded by attacking Third Way as a Wall Street-funded front group.

A liberal candidate running in a crowded Democratic primary [for Pennsylvania governor], John Hanger, then joined these groups Wednesday morning in calling on Rep. Allyson Schwartz, the early Democratic frontrunner in the race...to resign as an honorary co-chair of Third Way.

By lunch time, Warren jumped into the fray, [calling out Wall Street's] "financial contributions to think tanks.”

A few hours later, Schwartz condemned the piece for the Journal...“She read the op-ed and thought it was outrageous and strongly disagreed."

Each of the groups involved said this back-and-forth is an opening salvo in a debate among Democrats that will only become louder through 2014 and 2016.

Schwartz’s attempt to distance herself from Third Way emboldened the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to call on the centrist group’s other co-chairs to take public positions.

Help us stay on offense. Tell Third Way to reveal their Wall Street funders and stop attacking Elizabeth Warren's popular agenda on issues like Social Security expansion.

Then, pass this email to others. Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, PCCC co-founder