Surprise? I think not.

Security Risk: Meet Senator Chris Murphy’s long-time Communist Party USA staffer In June 2014 Maxwell Goldman served as a Connecticut delegate to the Communist Party USA National Convention in Chicago. Is it okay for a United States senator serving on the Foreign Relations Committee to employ an aide who is a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA)? What could be the security implications of such a relationship? For several years, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) employed CPUSA member Maxwell Goldman in a variety of positions. Maxwell Goldman started as a field organizer for Murphy’s campaign in April 2012, and continued employment until at least September 2016, when he worked as a senior outreach assistant at the senator’s Hartford, Connecticut office. [After college Goldman worked as a field organizer for Dan Malloy’s campaign for Connecticut governor, followed by a stint with the heavily Communist Party USA-influenced Connecticut SEIU. In June 2014 (while employed by Sen. Murphy) Maxwell Goldman served as a Connecticut delegate to the Communist Party USA National Convention in Chicago.) [...] As a member of the Connecticut branch of the CPUSA, Goldman serves alongside some very well-connected people. Connecticut party chair Joelle Fishman, is chair of the party’s political action committee, which works closely with the Democratic Party. She is also the daughter-in-law of Roosevelt-era Soviet spy ringleader Victor Perlo. Connecticut communist Lisa Bergmann gave a report, on behalf of the Young Communist League to a gathering of the communist-controlled World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFTY), in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2011. WFTY, incidentally, is poised to host a major international communist youth festival in Sochi this coming October – on Vladimir Putin’s personal instructions. FULL