Progressive Maryland Gets Its Voice Back

“They’re back.” That’s the message Executive Director Kate Planco Waybright hoped would be the lead of any story about Progressive Maryland’s 12th Annual Awards Gala Tuesday night in Greenbelt.

Tea Party conservatives and others on the right might find it hard to believe, but the left wing of the Democratic Party has struggles of its own as it fights to have its voice heard in Annapolis.

Progressive Maryland, a coalition of 45 labor, civil rights and religious groups, was struggling so much in 2011 that it closed its Silver Spring office, laid off much of its staff and, to save money, held its 10th anniversary “gala” as an online fundraiser.
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