There are heroes and then there are heroes. (and then there are gyros, but that's a whole 'nother story) One of my heroes, Winona LaDuke, explains that she finally got herself up off the proverbial couch and realized "I had to get active beyond the level of my comfort."
These DailyKos heroes have been nominated for this week's KOSSACK IN COURAGE award:
Mike Stark for taking on Rush, Hannity and others for their rank hypocrisy.
ColdFusion04 for writing, editing, publishing and marketing his very own book.
Jeff Seeman for running for Congress and holding Ralph Regula's feet to the fire.
Maura in VA for leading the charge in Virginia - and getting major props from Nightline in the process.
Nominations for next week's award-winner will open tomorrow. Rules below...
- No sitting elected officials, even if they are regular contributors to dKos. We need to build our bench. Elected officials are, generally, heroes already.
- Nominations may be made during the week, with honors the next Monday.
- Qualifying actions or contributions could range from the humane (donating an organ, tutoring a child) to the political (running for office, doorknocking an entire precinct) to the journalistic (getting a scathing LTE published), etc...
- MUST BE A REGISTERED MEMBER OF DAILYKOS.COM.
- Qualifying actions must happen OFFLINE.
BTW, if you hit that "RD" button to your right, we'll be able to keep this puppy up long enough to have a viable winner this week. Gosh, I hate self-shillin'.