Just in case there were any lingering doubts below is the official statement from Superdelegate Anita Bonds endorsing Barack Obama today.  

About 20 years ago, my cousin moved to DC where I was then living.  My "significant other", now wife, and I had never been to WV since we got together and, in fact, I hadn't been there for about 15 years.

I had some bad recollections about the place I grew up in, Wheeling, WV, which wasn't really very typical of a community that was legally segregated.  That was probably because we lived across the river from Ohio, which was not segregated and it would have been pretty hard to enforce some segregationist practices as a result.

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To the surprise of not a whole lot of people DC Democratic Party Chair Anita Bonds announced that she will support Barack Obama.  Bonds is a SuperDelegate.

If you live in the Washington, D.C., area, you won't find a more interesting free event than the International Assembly of Whistleblowers, May 12-16. I will be attending because I will be a speaker on a domestic surveillance panel, along with Eric Lichtblau, Jesselyn Radack, Babak Pasdar and Michelle Richardson.

The IAW is an international gathering of whistleblowers, a forum for them to publicly describe the challenges they faced in bringing to light corruption and abuses of power by the federal government, its contractors and the medical community. If you register for the event here, disregard the request for a registration fee, which is in error. IAW has informed me that the event is free for everyone. (However, donations would be gratefully accepted and, considering the great work being done, provide good value for your money.)

They didn't mind building out of control when people were sucking up ARM mortgages like grapes. Now that the bubble has burst, they want to slide on their tax burden. According to LIUNA "The U.S. Senate has passed a version of the Foreclosure Prevention Act, the majority of which goes to pay for taxpayer handouts to corporate home builders, not to help struggling homeowners." Unf@ckingreal, I'm pissed!

I wonder what would happen if you and I tried to claim this years losses against the gains we had in the last 4 years.

I know, I'm trying to train the trained, but maybe you know someone who'd be able to use this kind of help, because...

This Saturday, I will be working with an absolutely amazing group of bloggers. We will be providing a workshop on E-Activism and Blogging and yes, it has a very labor slant at the DC Democratic State Convention at the University of the District of Columbia.


Space is limited!!

So Use This Link and SIGN UP NOW!!

Now, you know anyone in DC who'd benefit from this, please, send it to them.  Know any union members who'd like to put their voice out there but are afraid, have them come out and talk to us! We want to hear their voices!!

(cross posted at The Dead Guy)

On tonight's The Colbert Report, Dr. Stephen T Colbert D.F.A. played host to four very strong Democrats - Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, Former Senator John Edwards and Congressman Patrick Murphy. Below is a blow-by-blow analysis (with video!!!):

Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. was narrowly elected as an unpledged "add-on" delegate by the DC Democratic State Committee on April 3.  Thomas had been an early Clinton supporter.  Since then, Thomas has given mixed signals, I'll spare you the details except for one, Barack Obama got over 83% of the vote in Thomas'es Ward 5 in Northeast Washington. Here is a link from WashingtonPost.com
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/...

The Washington, DC Examiner reports that recently selected unpledged add on delegate Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. has switched from support of Clinton to "undecided."  The link to the story is: http://www.examiner.com/...

Lie of Omission is still a lie.

On Thursday night, DC elected 2 add on unpledged delegates.  Almost all of the speakers made reference to the candidate they were supporting, except the two Clinton supporters, and one of them won.  

He is DC Councilmember, Harry Thomas Jr.

The CityPaper has part of the story:

Clinton’s name never came up in Thomas’ brief remarks before the vote; he instead chose to talk up his own qualifications and big-picture issues. "The issue is what are we going to do when we get to Denver that best represents the District of Columbia," he said. (Rumors had swirled that Thomas planned to switch to Obama, but Thomas knocked those down after the vote: "I haven’t changed," he says. "I’m consistent.")

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Somewhere a few weeks back I filled in one of those ready made reply e-mails with a long and impassioned plea to keep the National Mall - that open strip from the Capitol Building to the Lincoln Memorial - open and available for demonstrations. I dislike sending in the canned pleas for whatever the subject at hand is so I try to send a well-reasoned plea for sanity instead. They most likely would have sent the same response to a GFY e-mail but I got my two cents in anyway. It's the thoughts that count.

Below the fold I'll post The National Park Service's (NPS) canned feedback e-mail. It just came in today. I live south of Boston and I'd hate to see demonstration pens set up the way Boston did. With this Cheney-Bush administration you never know just what nefarious plan they may devise. So give it a read if you're so inclined. And by all means, attend demonstrations on the Mall if you can. Hell, attend them anywhere and any time you can. If you can't find one then start one. The numbers count as much or more than actual votes. Good street theater gets extra bonus points - sort of like super-delegates except they're only on YouTube.

Why is Harold Ickes a superdelegate from Washington, DC?

PLEASE FORWARD

1. DC for Obama phone banking to Mississippi, Sunday, March 9

Absolutely, according to the Department of Labor.  Well, you know, in terms of productivity, anyway...

Employers' unit labor costs rose at a 2.6 percent clip in the fourth quarter. That compared with an annualized decline of 2.7 percent in the third quarter. It marked the largest increase in labor costs since the first quarter of last year.. Unit labor costs is a measure of how much companies pay workers for every unit of output they produce.

More intriguing garbage to come:  

Washington DC "Shadow Senators", Sen. Paul Strauss & Sen. Michael Brown, have endorsed Barack Obama.  The endorsement was noted on page 9 of the print version of today's Washington Post, District local news section.  The shadow Senators are unpaid & elected by Washington "Taxation Without Representation" DC voters to lobby for voting rights & DC statehood.

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1. On the Road Again for Obama to Ohio!

Washington DC Democratic Primary Results:

98% votes reporting:

75% Barack Obama
24% Hillary Clinton
1% Uncommitted

Pledged delegates by the People:
Obama: 11
Clinton: 3

Superdelegates:
Obama: 2
Clinton: 10

Total Delegates:
Obama: 13
Clinton: 13

PLEASE FORWARD

a.) Phone Banking Wisconsin for Obama THIS WEEKEND!

In Washington, DC, we will be organizing two phone banks - one on Saturday, February 16 (tomorrow), and one on Sunday - both from 2-6 PM, at Mulhauser & Associates, located at 1730 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Suite 712 (near Rhode Island & 17th Streets, NW).  RSVP to Jesse Wald at jesse.wald@gmail.com for Saturday and Martha Plante at martha.plante@gmail.com for Sunday.  For members in New York, contact Matt Cowherd at mattcowherd@gmail.com to sign up and hear details about time(s) and location(s).  If you cannot attend a phone bank in person but still want to help, please contact Jen Marion at jenmari26@gmail.com if you are a woman (to make women-to-women calls) or Jesse Wald at jesse.wald@gmail.com if you are a man (to make general calls) and they will send you the necessary information so that you can call into WI from the comfort of your own home.