Annoy Rep. Foxx: Help the Matthew Shepard Foundation

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 3:24 PM PDT

2009/04/29 · 15:24

It is so gratifying to see the U.S. House finally passing the Matthew Shepard Act. Matthew was a friend of mine before his murder. It has been a strange decade, watching his story spread around the world while remembering him as a student, interested in language and diplomacy and politics. I am confident he would have been an eager participant in the blogging world in support of progressive causes and social justice if he were still with us today.

I wasn't suprised that Rep. Virginia Foxx parroted the warped revisionist account of Matt's death first popularized in 2003 by an Elizabeth Vargas hit-job on ABC's 20/20. I and others familiar with the crime were interviewed fo that one-sided piece of garbage. During nearly two hours of taping time, I tried very hard to poke holes in the obvious slant the piece's producer, Steve Jimenez, had developed. They ended up using about 10 seconds of my out-of-context remarks to try to bolster their own case. I felt naive.

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 8:59 AM PDT

2006/10/17 · 08:59

The Casper Star-Tribune released its Mason-Dixon poll this morning on the at-large congressional race in Wyoming, showing Democratic challenger Gary Trauner closing on Rep. Barbara Cubin since the last such poll in February. (N=625, MoE = 4%)

Cubin leads Trauner 44%-37% with 15% undecided and 4% picking the Libertarian candidate. Cubin had led 54%-32% in a similar poll in February. A Rasmussen poll in May had Cubin up 47%-44%.

The NRCC has had radio attack ads on the air against Trauner for the last several weeks. However, Cubin was laughed at openly when claiming to be running a positive campaign during the debate which took place Sunday (sorry, no link posted by the CST), and the newspaper letters page has been heavy with disgusted responses from letter writers, so there appears to be some backlash developing.

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WY-AL: Trauner outraises Cubin in Q3, leads COH

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 9:28 AM PDT

2006/10/16 · 09:28

In the race for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House, Democratic challenger Gary Trauner leads incumbent Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) in third-quarter fundraising as well as cash-on-hand as of the end of September, accoring to the new filings submitted this weekend to the FEC.

KGWN-TV of Cheyenne has the story. Trauner raised $193,000 in the quarter (versus Cubin's $188,000) and had cash on hand of $333,000 (with Cubin at $325,000).

The Casper Star-Tribune will release a long-awaited Mason-Dixon poll of the race on Tuesday, Oct. 17. This will be the first public poll released since Rasmusson's on May 8.

WY-AL: Cubin trails in Q2 funds, cash on hand

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Saturday July 15, 2006 · 9:50 AM PDT

2006/07/15 · 09:50

U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) fell behind Democratic challenger Gary Trauner in the second quarter both in fundraising and in cash on hand.

Trauner surpassed Cubin in second quarter FR by $24,000 despite her three-to-one advantage in PAC donations. Her haul from in-state individual donations was a paltry $40,000. Naturally, she is trying to make the story all about how Trauner raises a lot from rich people in Teton County and from out of state, although those same sources made up more than a third of her individual donations this past quarter.

Here's the Casper Star-Tribune article:
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