Mayor Ed Murray Thinks Democrats Are Too Preoccupied with "Purity Tests"

by Heidi GrooverMood. City of Seattle
Mayor Ed Murray appeared on Politico's Off Message podcast this week and, surprising no one, he shared some thoughts about infighting in the Democratic Party.Asked about the direction of the party, the Democratic state legislator-turned-mayor complains that "on the national level, at times, I feel like we are becoming like the Tea Party on the far right, that we have purity tests."Murray worries that failing to "allow for a diversity of opinions among progre