We don't have to be smart to stop McCain

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 5:51 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 17:51

I'm sure you have all seen the "I'm a little confused..." viral email going around about Obama vs. the other candidates. I thought it was pretty funny, pretty clever so I googled it to see if I could give it a little social networking love. I was shocked to read an authentic rebuttal which I won't dignify with a link. The problem is that the guy who wrote the rebuttal, bullet point by bullet point, clearly believed in what he was saying. If anyone could read that email and rebut it with sincerity, I started to think we might be in trouble in November. But I noticed that there was one bullet point he couldn't rebut:

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

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Monday October 30, 2006 · 7:19 PM PST

2006/10/30 · 19:19

Today a great fighting Dem, Lt. Col. Sid Atwater (USMC, Ret.) spoke out for Phyllis Busansky who is running for Congress in FL-09. Atwater served our country for 24 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and was last stationed at USCENTCOM (the Joint Headquarters responsible for the operational/military aspects to our country's policies in the Middle East), MacDill AFB, Tampa where he served as the Branch Chief of the War Plans Division. He spoke out for Phyllis and against rubber-stamp legacy wanna-be, Gus Bilirakis.

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FL-09 "Why Won't Gus Talk?" Video

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 7:05 PM PDT

2006/10/26 · 19:05

Check out this incredible video outing Phyllis Busansky's (FL-09) opponent's unwillingness to engage.

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Contribution swap: You support my candidate, I'll support yours

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Wednesday October 25, 2006 · 6:10 PM PDT

2006/10/25 · 18:10

Here's the deal: PhyllisBusansky who is running for Congress in FL-09 needs support, but I'm maxed out. So...if you give to my candidate, I'll give to yours! E-mail 1) how much you want to swap and 2) the name of your candidate to me at Jennifer@poliblogist.com and once I see your donation on this ActBlue page I will send a matching donation to the candidate of your choice. I'll go until I hit $2,500.00 (so please e-mail first to make sure I haven't hit my budget) Thanks so much and let's keep our fingers crossed!

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If we really want to take back the house

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 6:35 PM PDT

2006/10/17 · 18:35

I made this as a comment to a diary earlier tonight, but now think it should be its own diary.

If we really want to take back the house, we should all send our favorite candidate $20 bucks tonight. Mine is Phyllis Busansky, but send to whomever you like. Read More

FL-09: St. Pete Times Officially Endorses Phyllis Busansky (D)

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 5:32 PM PDT

2006/10/16 · 17:32

Today the St. Pete Times, one of FL 9th District's largest newspapers, has officially endorsed Phyllis Busansky for the US House of Representatives.

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New GOP Strategy: Refuse to Debate

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Friday September 22, 2006 · 5:21 PM PDT

2006/09/22 · 17:21

A column in today's St. Pete Times highlights a disturbing GOP strategy for avoiding the issues:

The League of Women Voters produces televised forums for candidates in every local race in the county. The forums prove informative, and participating candidates report favorable feedback.
The key phrase here is "participating candidates." These days some candidates are avoiding all public forums.

Three politicans were all mentioned as having opted-out of debates: First, it was two Hillsbourough (FL) County Commisioners in the General: County Commisioner Jim Norman and County Commisioner Ronda Storms. Now, GOP candidate in the FL-09 House race Gus Bilirakis is refusing to debate the Dem candidate Phyllis Busansky. This is no County Commioner's race. This is for a seat in the US Congress. Can they really get away with it? Read More

Mid-east Burns, Cheney Fundraises

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 7:05 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 19:05

While the Middle East implodes, gas prices soar, and the federal budget bulges, tomorrow Dick Cheney will take time to fund raise for Gus Bilirakis, unimpressive son of outgoing Rep. Mike Bilirakis. Doesn't Cheney have a JOB to do?

I am somewhat surprised (not!) that Gus would want Dick Cheney to fundraise for him: Cheney is hardly the poster-boy for honesty and integrity: this is the draft-dodging, PlameGate, improper political and business ties to Enron, faulty prewar intelligence and the indicted Scooter Libby Cheney that we all know. Read More

Michael Schiavo on the Campaign Trail

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Friday July 14, 2006 · 6:03 PM PDT

2006/07/14 · 18:03

If you have been following Michael Schiavo's TerriPAC, it is no surprise that he is out there trying to make a real difference in November. You also may know that in addition to supporting a bunch of candidates, he's actually headlining fundraising events for them.

As reported in TheRawStory, his hitting the campaign trail is not going unnoticed:
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Fighting Dems Co-Chair on Tour?

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 8:11 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 08:11

While following the press on my favorite congressional candidiate, Phyllis Busansky [FL-09], I came across an article in The Tampa Bay Times that reported:

Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, who co-chairs the Democratic National Veterans and Military Families Council and is the first woman to serve as a three-star general in the U.S. Army...stopped by to support [Phyllis] Busansky's election campaign as part of a nationwide tour for Democratic candidates..."

I was excited to learn more about the "nationwide tour" but found nothing about it on the Veteran's Council website.

Anyone know about the tour? A real tour that generated support among veterans would be terrific and we should know more about it!

CA-50: What the hell is wrong with Dean, Rahm

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 6:11 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 18:11

...don't they know how to play well with others?

The CA-50 Narrow victory by the G.O.P. reported by the New York Times is a laugh:

Republicans demonstrated yet again their ability to raise more money than Democrats and to deploy the get-out-the-vote and absentee-vote operation developed by the Republican National Committee.
The committee's chairman, Ken Mehlman, said Wednesday that Republicans had 160 people in this district helping to get out the vote.
"They made 164,000 phone calls," Mr. Mehlman said.
Democrats said the Democratic National Committee had no similar effort on the ground here.

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The "Anti-Women's Health Care Access Act"

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Saturday June 03, 2006 · 6:28 AM PDT

2006/06/03 · 06:28

The new name that NOW has given the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (HR 4691/S.2008) sponsored by Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla.) in the House and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) in the Senate is more to the point.

This legislation is one of the most dangerous and burdensome of all of the many anti-abortion and anti-contraception bills being promoted by extremist opponents of women's reproductive health care.

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