It wasn’t too long ago that Tom Dschle was painted as an “extreme liberal” during his last campaign. But those labels need no longer apply as he and three other former majority leaders from the Senate plan to create a “Bipartisan Policy Center.” The Wall Street Journal reports that they want “to encourage Republicans and Democrats to work together on national security, energy and agriculture issues. With funding from philanthropic organizations.”

The former Democratic leaders are Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, joined by Republicans Bob Dole and Howard Baker.

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Newsweek is reporting that New York CIty Mayor Michael Bloomberg is looking at a third party bid for an ‘08 presidential run. According to Newsweek and MSNBC,

Privately, Bloomberg and political adviser Kevin Sheekey are meeting with pollsters and consultants to assess the mayor’s chances as a third-party, independent candidate. “There is no Bloomberg campaign,” Sheekey tells NEWSWEEK. “But we have certainly reached out.” At a dinner last year with Al From, founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Bloomberg was candid and self-deprecating, wondering what chance a 5-foot-7, divorced Jew has in the celebrity-sweepstakes presidential contest.

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This years Democratic State Central Committee’s Annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner brings Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi as guest speaker. In the past years Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson have been guest speakers.

The event will be held on Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Connecticut Expo Center in Hartford.

Tickets are available through the state central committee representatives of your local town committee or from Democratic party headquarters.

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Governor Rell’s budget proposal has prompted the budget battle lines to be drawn. While ECS reform has been on the agenda of Democrats for a number of years, Jim Amann plans to focus on the priority of heath care. According to this Journal Inquirer article:

“I want to make sure we stick to our game plan,” House Speaker James A. Amann, D-Milford, said Friday.

The speaker, who for the last two years has overseen a working group on children’s health care needs, vowed last fall that the health insurance landscape would change dramatically this year.

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