Video: Dodd's Statement on the Future of the Iraq Debate

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 2:47 PM PDT

2007/05/25 · 14:47

Here is Senator Dodd's statement on the future of the Iraq debate. It comes in response to last night's passage of an Iraq supplemental bill that did not include a timetable for responsibly redeploying our troops from Iraq.

Chris Dodd: "I'm not going to stop and I want you to know that."

I proudly work for Senator Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.
--Matt Browner-Hamlin

Televise Cliff Schecter!

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Tuesday January 23, 2007 · 2:53 PM PST

2007/01/23 · 14:53

Cliff Schecter is one of the most compelling, captivating Democratic figures on TV news stations. His smack downs of Republican talking heads are the stuff of legend around the liberal blogosphere. He practically owns YouTube.

Cliff deserves to be given his own political news show on cable television. Cliff would be a jolt of electricity to any network and his clarity and conviction would surely garner huge ratings in a news environment starved of serious liberal voices.

With that in mind, I have started the Televise Cliff Schecter! grassroots movement. The blog home for this campaign is Televise Cliff Schecter!.

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Tell me about "street money," Sen. Lieberman

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 3:32 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 15:32

I had not heard of the term "street money" before about a week ago. Yet as I've looked into the story of Joe Lieberman's $387,000 in unaccounted petty cash disbursements, the term keeps coming up. Street money is a term that describes cash campaigns use to pay people to vote for their candidate. Street money is vote buying. It can be handled by campaign staff, but more often is distributed to go-betweens that will spread it around their neighborhoods. Street money is apparently a phenomenon common to poor, urban, minority population centers - places like Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford.

I want to use this post to explain how street money works, because I imagine there are many other people out there who aren't familiar with the term.

A campaign will rely on the influence or outreach abilities of people who know their community to distribute street money for votes. This can mean local political organizers, ministers, labor leaders, or often drug dealers. There are three basic ways street money can be used to buy votes.
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Ann Coulter Is Right

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 6:19 AM PDT

2006/06/07 · 06:19

Ann Coulter is right. Yesterday's much maligned assault on the 9/11 widows, Cindy Sheehan, and our eyesight (she was in a cocktail dress in the early morning) contained an unmistakable truth: the only Democratic spokespeople that are reliably listened to are our infallible victims.

It's taken me a full day to come to grips with the fact that Coulter is right, but not for the reasons she thinks she is. Yes, our most powerful Democratic voices are infallible because of their victimhood, or in some cases their heroism during wartime. But the only reason they are trotted out as the liberal voice on Iraq, homeland security, and foreign policy is that the traditional media and pundit class refuse to listen to regular, run-of-the-mill liberals in the first place. If Democratic pols were respected for their policy views and did not have to fear immediate RNC fund attack adds on (take your pick of the meme: soft on crime, soft on terrorism, pro-terrorist, anti-family values, anti-American), we wouldn't have to rely on spokespeople whose power and authenticity comes from their tragic losses. Read More

HAYDEN CONFIRMED 78-15, I'm pissed (w/Roll Call)

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Friday May 26, 2006 · 8:07 AM PDT

2006/05/26 · 08:07

Hayden confirmed as DCI, 78 - 15. This conclusively shows that Congress is incapable of seeing the forest from the trees. If they don't see a connection between the Bush administration's unconstitutional raid of a representative's office and the unconstitutional and illegal surveillance of regular Americans, then they're just plain fools.

List of who voted for and against below. It's a sad state... Read More

ACTION REPORT: 250 Copies of "Crashing the Gate" Delivered to Congressional Dems! UPDATED

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 8:44 PM PDT

2006/05/23 · 20:44

Today members of the Roots Project delivered a copy of Crashing the Gate to every Democrat in the House and Senate. Each copy was donated by an American who wants to see our elected officials engage the blogosphere and understand our power as a grassroots force. We visited two hundred and forty-nine offices in one day with no more than a dozen people.

Read more about this inspiring action and people-powered politics below the fold!

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Hillary to Cosponsor Dorgan/Snowe Net Neutrality Bill

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Wednesday May 17, 2006 · 4:17 PM PDT

2006/05/17 · 16:17

I just received an email from Hillary Clinton's Deputy State Director, Christine Falvo. I and six other members of the New York branch of the Roots Project met with her last week to talk about net neutrality and a few other issues. At the time Falvo was not able to say anything about the Senator's position on the issue other than she was "looking at" the Snowe/Dorgan bill. Now, it turns out, Clinton will cosponsor the Snowe/Dorgan legislation.

Here's the text of Clinton's announcement. Sent via email, so I don't have a link yet:

May 18, 2006
STATEMENT OF SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON ON NET NEUTRALITY
Washington, DC - "I support net neutrality. The open architecture of the Internet has been the critical element that has made it the most revolutionary communications medium since the advent of the television.

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 10:21 PM PDT

2006/05/11 · 22:21

I and another member of the Roots Project in New York met with Minna Elias, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's NY Chief of Staff, this afternoon to talk about net neutrality. Maloney is a Democrat representing the New York 14th. Coming away from the meeting I cannot imagine a more heartening conversation for a constituent to have with a staffer. My hope is that our talk with Minna evolves into the normal expectation for constituents of the Roots Project to have going into meetings with aides and elected officials. Read More

Roots Project NY: Report from meeting with Clinton Staff

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 8:30 AM PDT

2006/05/11 · 08:30

Seven members of the New York Roots Project met with Hillary Clinton's Deputy State Director, Christine Falvo, Wednesday afternoon. We had previously posted on our efforts to meet with both Clinton and Chuck Schumer's staff in New York City. We had received no response from Hillary's office to our requests to meet and refused to let us up to the her office without a prior appointment - a disappointing experience, but one that was powerfully conveyed to the net via FireDogLake and a video post at Crooks & Liars; Glenn Greenwald has also played a large role in The Roots Project's actions. That action allowed us to get this meeting with Christine. Read More

CA-49: Koufax Nominated Blogger Ken Grandlund Enters Race

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Monday March 13, 2006 · 1:15 PM PST

2006/03/13 · 13:15

My friend Ken Grandlund, a remarkable blogger at Common Sense and Bring It On!, has announced his candidacy for California's 49th Congressional District. He is a progressive and one of the most thoughtful bloggers I have ever read and he's running as an independent. Read More

Breaking Up With Google (w/POLL)

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Friday February 10, 2006 · 4:07 PM PST

2006/02/10 · 16:07

Check out the latest Google "break up" video by Students for a Free Tibet.

Click here to watch the video. Go below the fold for a campaign update and actions YOU can take. Read More

Mad Libbing the State of the Union

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 9:05 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 21:05

After posting a template on my blog for the last couple of days, here is the results of a mad libs of Bush's State of the Union, primarily from the introduction and foreign policy section. Some words have been replaced by input from our readers in blank forms; these should be obvious. I'll copy the form below in a comment.

Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, tramps of Congress, members of the Dutch Elm and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests and fellow citizens... Read More

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