Forged letters from anti cap-and-trade lobbyists

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 7:13 AM PDT

2009/07/31 · 07:13

There is a fine piece of local reporting in today's Charlottesville, Virginia, Daily Progress that deserves to get some national attention for the spotlight it focuses on deceptive tactics used by hired-gun lobbyists. The lead:

As U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello was considering how to vote on an important piece of climate change legislation in June, the freshman congressman’s office received at least six letters from two Charlottesville-based minority organizations voicing opposition to the measure.

The letters, as it turns out, were forgeries.

Forged letters to congressman anger local groups

DavidSewell

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 8:46 AM PST

2006/12/22 · 08:46

[I]f American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

Virgil Goode, my Congressional representative, yesterday defended the letter he sent constituents concerning Rep. Keith Ellison by suggesting that it represented core American values (quoting feedback from a supporter during his Fox News interview). Well, you can't get any more American than apple pie and George Washington. We don't have apple pie on record concerning religious belief and public office, but we do have George Washington's words. Some of them follow.

DavidSewell

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 8:19 AM PST

2006/11/15 · 08:19

Shekar Ramanuja (S.R.) Sidarth has just published a wonderful first-person account of his experience with the Webb campaign in a Hampton Roads Daily Press opinion column: Other voices: 'Macaca' ... or whatever my name is. Read More

"Virgil Goode, This is Your Bill, Will You Pay It"?

DavidSewell

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Thursday August 03, 2006 · 8:19 PM PDT

2006/08/03 · 20:19

"You supported [Mitchell Wade's] lies when you claimed this was about jobs. This is, and always was, about money. ... Mr. Goode, this is your bill, will you pay it? You owe it to the people you claim to serve."

It looks like no one here has yet diaried a report of VA-5 Democratic congressional candidate Al Weed's fiery challenge to incumbent Virgil Goode today, as reported in detail on Raising Kaine and more briefly in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. If any Democratic campaigners around the country are wondering about the appropriate tone to take in confronting Republican venality, Al's got a rhetoric lesson for them. Read More

Why haven't we kidnapped Patty Hearst?

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 9:53 PM PST

2006/03/08 · 21:53

This is a query, not an attempt to incite anything. But I'd like to hear how the Kos community answers this question. Namely: Why hasn't there been more violent political protest in the last couple of years in the United States? Why, compared with the situation during the Vietnam War, or with the brief frenzy of right-wing militias during the 1990s, has this been a period of largely subdued protest, verbal and symbolic? [Updated to supply a more provocative title. Gotta compete with them alpha diarists. --DS]
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CNN no longer double-plus ungood

DavidSewell

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Saturday March 04, 2006 · 8:59 AM PST

2006/03/04 · 08:59

CNN Defies the Ministry of Truth: All morning today, readers of CNN.com have seen a front-page story on Bush's visit to Pakistan whose accompanying picture has varied but whose caption has (so far) invariably contained the phrase, "the so-called war on terror". To paraphrase Neil Armstrong, that's one small step for a news organization, a giant leap for truth in the mainstream media. Read More

Wes Clark, Christmas Warrior

DavidSewell

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 11:04 AM PST

2005/12/22 · 11:04

Wes Clark sent out a holiday email to his WesPAC list today, subject line Happy holidays! (Take that, right-wing fanatics!) But the body of the letter showed what the theocrats are missing in this whole trumped-up "war"... Read More

VA GOV: new dirty-tricks phone campaign [updated]

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Sunday November 06, 2005 · 2:02 PM PST

2005/11/06 · 14:02

[This was originally posted as a comment to the VA Gov Dirty Tricks story; I'm creating a separate diary entry for visibility to VA Kos readers. --DS]

I just answered the phone to a recording that went something like this: "I'm Tim Kaine and I want you to know where I stand on the issues. I'm a Christian and my faith is important to me. I oppose abortion, and I oppose gay marriage." [both of these points expanded; I can't recall the wording]. I realized as the call went on that there was something fishy about it--it reminded me of the pseudo-Potts flyer discussed in VA-Gov: GOP dirty tricks. So I wrote down the last words: "Paid for by Honest Leadership for Virginia PAC".
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Help open-source the Miers questionnaire.

DavidSewell

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 8:12 PM PDT

2005/10/19 · 20:12

While skimming over Harriet Miers's submitted job application questionnaire (PDF) for the Senate Judiciary committee, I was perplexed by the following incomplete entry under Category 12, "Memberships":

1983-Present: Board of Consultants Member (1983-1987 Board of Directors, 1987-1989 Associate Board Member, 1993-Present, Board of Consultants Member), an organization that works to translate the Bible into languages into which it has not yet been translated. Contact: Randal Smith, (972) 708-7460.

That's it. No title. Apparently Miers has been a member since 1983 of a Bible translation organization whose name she can't recall. Could I possibly help her out here? Read More

"Lord of the Flies" and Bush's America

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Saturday September 10, 2005 · 6:36 PM PDT

2005/09/10 · 18:36

Almost as soon as the first reports of looting and violence came out of post-Katrina New Orleans, people were citing William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies as an analogue. On Democratic Underground, "It is like something out of 'The Lord of the Flies'" was one of at least a half dozen posts to draw the parallel. The Diane Rehm show will devote its September 21 "Reader's Review" segment to the book. Vail, Colorado, booksellers have picked the novel as this month's Valley Read and will donate one dollar to hurricane relief for each copy purchased. As one of the booksellers explains, he "thought it could be used as an educational tool to explain how society breaks down when they don't have food, water or basic necessities."

Like most Americans, I suppose, I hadn't read Lord of the Flies since high school, so I reread it this week to see if it does in fact illuminate what happened after the hurricane. But what I found isn't what I expected. The novel is not a prefigurement of those few horrific days in New Orleans; instead, it is uncannily close to an allegory of the United States under the leadership of George W. Bush.
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WSJ and toadyism

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Thursday July 14, 2005 · 12:15 PM PDT

2005/07/14 · 12:15

I sent the Wall Street Journal feedback on their infamous Karl Rove, Whistleblower op-ed. Chances are they won't put it up, and in any case I thought I'd share it.

If I knew a more forceful way to say "shame on you" I'd do it, but this was my best effort. Read More

Democratic Stop Signs: My letter to GWB

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Wednesday June 15, 2005 · 2:09 PM PDT

2005/06/15 · 14:09

I sent off the following email today to president@whitehouse.gov.

I hope the underling who actually reads it is capable of appreciating satire.

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Why haven't we kidnapped Patty Hearst?

CNN no longer double-plus ungood

Wes Clark, Christmas Warrior

VA GOV: new dirty-tricks phone campaign [updated]

Help open-source the Miers questionnaire.

"Lord of the Flies" and Bush's America

WSJ and toadyism

Democratic Stop Signs: My letter to GWB