Nevada early voting sets records

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Saturday October 18, 2008 · 11:38 PM PDT

2008/10/18 · 23:38

Not much of a diary, but I thought the news would be welcome: Nevada early voting began today.

In Clark County (the most populous county in the state), 25,592 people voted today. That's nearly double the 14,000 who voted in 2004 on the first day of early voting.

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 1:04 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 01:04

Alaska's "First Dude," the once-and-possibly-future secessionist Todd Palin, has provided an affidavit to the state legislature's Troopergate investigators explaining his role in the firing of former Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. In it, he offers yet another excuse for Monegan's firing, a never-before-told tale of poor Sarah Palin's mistreatment which manages to bring resurrect one of the McCain/Palin campaign's earliest lies, the one about the state jet Sarah Palin supposedly sold on eBay.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 8:26 PM PDT

2008/09/19 · 20:26

The only thing more bankrupt than Wall Street, apparently, is Sarah Palin's ever-shifting rationale for the firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Palin's latest excuse -- that she fired Monegan for planning an "unauthorized" trip to Washington DC, to lobby Senator Lisa Murkowski -- doesn't hold water. According to documents obtained by ABC News, Palin's own chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's travel. The request, submitted and approved in writing, specifies that Monegan was to meet with the senator.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 12:35 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 12:35

Hadn't seen this elsewhere, and I apologize if I missed it.

Five Republican legislators have filed suit, according to the Associated Press, to block the inquiry into Sarah Palin's firing of Alaska's top public safety officer.

The probe, which was unanimously authorized by the legislature's bipartisan oversight committee, is being called "unlawful, biased, partial and partisan," by the Republicans seeking to block it.

I'll post a link to the complaint when I can.

Update [2008-9-16 16:1:35 by Califlander]: The docket for the case can be found here. No documents appear to be online yet.

Further update ... the case has been assigned to Anchorage Superior Court Judge John Suddock.

Press release from the plantiff's counsel is here. (h/t jgilhousen)

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 1:44 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 01:44

If you watched John McCain give the most important speech of his life, you probably wondered about the building shown on the backdrop behind him:

According to Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, the building is the Walter Reed -- but not the one you're probably thinking of.

Califlander

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 1:26 PM PDT

2008/08/22 · 13:26

Really, could there be any better proof that the Washington Post editorial board is wholly in the tank for John McCain than this editorial set to run in tomorrow's paper?

But, really, do the McCains' real estate holdings and his failure to keep count of his wife's Coronado condos make Mr. McCain oblivious to the concerns of ordinary Americans -- any more than their family estates made Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy incapable of feeling the pain of the common man?

Let me explain this for the folks at the Post: McCain's disregard for the economic plight of ordinary Americans is manifest in every part of his campaign and his party's positions on every issue.

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 10:43 AM PDT

2008/08/13 · 10:43

Of necessity a very short diary: Arkansas Democratic Chairman Bill Gwatney was shot today at the state Democratic Party headquarters in Little Rock. Gwatney was taken from the scene by ambulance. His condition is unknown. (As noted in updates below, Mr. Gwatney is now confirmed dead).

Police gave chase to a suspect apparently fleeing the scene, and there are reports they shot the suspect. The suspect's identity and condition are unknown. (As noted in the updates below, the suspected shooter is now also confirmed dead).

Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama on the shooting: "I was shocked and saddened to hear about the tragedy in Arkansas. We're all grateful for the quick action of law enforcement and quick thinking by Chairman Gwatney's staff, and Michelle and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers."

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 2:09 AM PDT

2008/08/06 · 02:09

A few months ago, Plutonium Page wrote a diary about the anthrax attacks that made reference to Richard Preston’s 2002 book on the subject, called The Demon in the Freezer.

Because I’d read some of Preston’s earlier work and found it interesting, I picked up a copy of The Demon. It wasn’t entirely what I expected; about a third of the book follows the anthrax attacks and the investigation, and the rest describes the global effort to eradicate smallpox. Still, it was a good book and an easy read.

Califlander

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Monday July 21, 2008 · 4:17 PM PDT

2008/07/21 · 16:17

The civil war has come to Nevada.

Supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul have filed suit in state district court in Reno seeking to block the state party from appointing delegates to the national GOP convention. Ron Paul took second in the Nevada caucuses (the state party has removed the official results page, but it's cached here), defeating presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, but it appears the state party is attempting to deny Paul his delegates to the national convention.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 5:39 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 05:39

If you remember 9/11, you remember the anguished cries of bewilderment: Why do they hate us?

Not just the killers from that day: we all understood them to be madmen, and so they were, and so are those who sent them. Mass murder is an act of madness, and of barbarism.

But what of those who cheered them on, who expressed satisfaction at what happened to America that day? Why do they hate us?

Implicit in the question was an element of narcissism: that Americans were unquestionably Good, and Decent, and Fair, and should therefore be universally loved. America could not have done anything that would inspire hate.

So our civic and cultural leaders gave us answers that played to that narcissism -- they hate us for our freedom (heck yeah! America, land of the free!), and they hate us because we're prosperous and powerful (damn straight! Rich and strong, that's us!). Some of those leaders, the darker ones, gave answers intended to divide us -- they hate us because of the moral corruption of the ACLU and People for the American Way.

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 6:42 AM PST

2008/02/11 · 06:42

Among all the excitement of the Democratic races this weekend and the impressive sweep by Senator Barack Obama, there was another story that seems to have been overlooked: the brazen election fraud committed against underdog former Governor Mike Huckabee in the Washington Republican party caucuses.

This has significant implications for the November race -- and we can help. Follow me below the fold ...

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Gov Jindal (R-LA) Admits Ethics Violations

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 10:41 PM PST

2008/01/24 · 22:41

Well, well ... the GOP's wunderkind in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal, is now under investigation by that state's Board of Ethics for failing to report $118,000 in contributions by the Republican Party.

In office for less than a month, Jindal's spokesperson says that the governor will pay a fine from his campaign fund and has amended his reports to reflect the donation.

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