Highlighting a rift among Democratic voters, a political action committee will seek to boost liberal California legislative candidates over more business-friendly Democrats in state legislative races

Van Jones: There Is a ‘Civil War’ in the Democratic Party https://t.co/ZesYLpUTAo pic.twitter.com/8v4DgEBSiG

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 4, 2016

Moderate California Democrats will face new election challenge https://t.co/Iqm8wsFJMU

— The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) April 4, 2016

Now an Oakland-based political action committee called Progressive Kick has committed money to back liberal Democrats. Joshua Grossman, president of Progressive Kick, said the organization plans to spend “in the six figures at a minimum.” He declined to say where the group would make independent expenditures beyond races where they see “an alternative besides a Republican” to centrist Democrats, which could include targeting incumbents and open seats....

“You basically have three parties (in Sacramento): you have progressive Democrats, you have corporate Democrats and you have Republicans...”