ND Senator's Disclosure

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 15, 2006 · 2:37 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 14:37

Well, these guys aren't rolling in dough. Not worth a million together even if Conrad is in bed with a lobbyest. (BTW, that's a joke. His wife lobbies for Major League Baseball and was once Dorgan's chief of staff.) details on the flip side. Read More

My campaign commercial

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday May 10, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/05/10 · 14:17

Was just noodling around the blogs today and an idea for a campaign commercial came to mind. If anyone wants to do anything with it, feel free. I call it Loveable Bumblers. Read More

Pushing back

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday March 10, 2006 · 7:49 AM PST

2006/03/10 · 07:49

One of the right wing's most long established propaganda tools is the myth of government waste and inefficiency. In the Internet age this has meant all those hoary urban legends of welfare queens and more Ag Dept. employees than farmers and $400 toilet seats show up with irritating regularity in my inbox. I enjoy a good laugh as well as anyone. But it's only fun until the country starts electing people who use this crap as a base for serious policy decisions. So I have started pushing back ever since I got a stupid email saying the ACLU wouldn't let my nephew the Marine pray. In this effort, Snopes.com is your friend. Below the fold is my latest response. Read More

Signs of progress

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday February 18, 2006 · 8:01 PM PST

2006/02/18 · 20:01

I had an opportunity to chat with one of more progressive state legislators in North Dakota this week and asked him how the staff people funded by Dean's DNC 50 State Strategy was working out. He said they were working out very well and there was a lot of excitement in the party that's been missing for a while.

In particular he pointed to the party's policy meetings held in early February. In the late 90s he said those meetings often were hamstrung because not enough Dems showed up to make a quorum. This year almost every district sent their two delegates and many sent alternates as well. Given the moribund state of the state party for at least a decade, this qualifies as a near miracle. It is the first hopeful sign I have seen that North Dakota may return to its century of progressive traditions after wandering in the wilderness since 1992.

ND Senate - Another one bites the dust

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday February 01, 2006 · 10:41 AM PST

2006/02/01 · 10:41

Public Service Commissioner and I believe former state GOP chair Kevin Cramer said today that he will not run against disappointing Dem incumbent Kent Conrad. After Governor John Hoeven decided not to sacrifice his political career in a run against Conrad, Liddy Dole focused her wooing on Cramer.

I wonder if the fact that his campaign committee has a grand total of $204 on hand played into his decision?

My Thoughts exactly

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday January 16, 2006 · 7:29 PM PST

2006/01/16 · 19:29

MLK said so many things, so well that I am not surprised that he articulated so well my own thoughts on how the party that most nearly supports my own goals and ideas is also the main obstacle towards meeting those ideals. From norbizness via Pharyngula

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate...

Read the rest below the fold Read More

Wingnuts target my Senators on Alito

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday January 03, 2006 · 1:58 PM PST

2006/01/03 · 13:58

Oh boy, I am going to get see some more wingnuttery commericials thanks to conservative groups who think North Dakota it a deep red state. Don't know why they bother. It's not like there are any credible threats to either Dorgan or Conrad. Of course, the way Conrad has been voting for the past year I don't know why the right wing would target him anyway. He's been on the wrong side of issues as often than not to the point where while I will vote for him, I don't know if I can bring myself to work for him this year.

ND Dem-NPL has new executive director

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday December 22, 2005 · 1:09 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 13:09

A message from Jim Fuglie
Dear Democratic-NPL Friends,
Okay, I flunked retirement. Nearly two years ago, I walked out the door of my Bismarck office and headed west, for a new life on a little "retirement farm" north of Gladstone. I am newly married to Lillian Crook, the Director of Library Services at Dickinson State University, and her two lovely teenage twin daughters, and have spent much of the last two years renovating an old farm and making a home for the four of us. But I'm restless, and the Democratic-NPL party needs an executive director, and I know how to do that, and Lillian says some time on the road would be good for me, so here I am, ready to go back to work electing Democrats. Yee-haw!

continued...
Read More

Conrad finally gets an opponent?

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday December 15, 2005 · 9:59 AM PST

2005/12/15 · 09:59

Having dropped the ball with their first choice, the RNC is working its way through its second stringers in North Dakota. PSC Commissioner Kevin Cramer is the current object of the RNSC's wooing.

Republicans have been searching for a Conrad challenger since Gov. John Hoeven said he would not make the race. Cramer said he will speak to Ken Mehlman, the national GOP chairman, and North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, during meetings in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
"I feel obligated and, frankly, pleased to be able to at least go and hear their pitch, and see what they can do to help me make a decision," Cramer said. He added that he will not make up his mind soon about whether to run.
Hoeven appointed Cramer to the Public Service Commission in 2003. The following year, he was elected to a six-year term on the panel, which regulates utilities, coal mining, telephone companies and other industries.

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 11:36 AM PST

2005/12/06 · 11:36

Just a little humor to tide you through this holiday season.

A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards.

She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Christmas stamps?" The clerk says,

"What denomination?" The woman says,

"God help us. Has it come to this?
Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran and 22 Baptists."

Still a few journalists on the continent

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 8:08 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 20:08

Gee, a national media says the Bush administration lied about a major scandal and airs the story in prime time. Too bad it's not our nation. But if you live close enough to the Canadian border to catch CBC television, you may want to set the Tivo to catch The Fifth Estate.

A FEW BAD APPLES
Wednesday November 16 at 9pm on CBC-TV
They were the photos that shocked the world. Detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison attacked by dogs, made to crawl on all fours while on the end of a leash, hooded with electrical wires attached to limbs. This humiliation, even torture, was carried out by their guards, members of the American military.
President Bush and his government wanted the public to believe that this was the work of just a few bad apples. But, an investigative team from the fifth estate, led by reporter Gillian Findlay, takes us inside one of these notorious images, talks to the American soldiers who were there, and finds a markedly different story.

Wonder if we can get Walter Cronkite to come out of retirement?

Wrong thing to write me

writerofag

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 23, 2005 · 10:32 PM PDT

2005/09/23 · 22:32

Usually I try to ignore the crap that people forward to me off the internet. I blew up at this one. My response, which precedes the letter, was written in haste and anger, and I make no claims of coherence, let alone accuracy of any actual claims made. I apologize to people of faith I may offend with my too harsh words, and let me acknowledge here how grateful I am for the strong liberal tradition within most of the mainstream Christian churchs. I also apologize for a certain coarseness of language. I will just say it was the wrong thing to send an agnostic athiest who works for a Public Employees Union.

The goodies on the flip... Read More

Newer
Older

RSS