Perez-Sanders tour kicks off amid progressive skepticism
By David Weigel April 17 at 5:55 PM
PORTLAND, Maine — When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez arrived at the State Theatre on Monday night, David Bright would be there. Bright, an organic farmer who helped Sanders win the state’s Democratic caucuses, was one of Maine’s four voters in the electoral college. He’d used that role to cast a protest vote for Sanders, relenting and casting a futile vote for Hillary Clinton only after state law forced him to.
His opinion of the Democratic Party’s “establishment” has not improved much since then.
“The DNC has dropped the ball on one congressional campaign after another,” Bright said in an interview before driving from his farm to Portland. “The only way Perez would be safe to come to Maine is to have Bernie by his side. Otherwise, progressives in this state would tear him apart.”
Portland, the bluest dot in a state that has trended Republican in recent years, is the launchpad for a week-long Perez-Sanders campaign tour. The team-up came last month, but last week, when Democrats lost a closer-than-expected House race in Kansas, the reasons for doing it became clearer. While energy on the left has risen since November, the party’s base can still tumble into debates about whom to blame for its defeats, with the left doing most of the talking.
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I get it. 
for Chuck Schumer, Bernie, and Tom Perez for trying to do something different.
