(NC-11) Heath Shuler: An Introduction

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 8:47 AM PDT

2006/10/01 · 08:47

Recorded by a very dramatic blogger, this 3 1/2 minute video will give you a picture of Heath Shuler's character and the confidence he's inspired in his supporters. If you want to know more about Shuler, this is a good place to start.

Click here to see the video.

Thanks to the whole Daily Kos community for your interest and support of our North Carolina candidates. Keep it coming.

NC-11: WNCNN - Episode II - Live On The Scene

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 6:56 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 06:56

WNCNN is proud to announce the premiere of our second episode, wherein we find our intrepid reporters Johnny Joe Rockslide and Sally Love invading the seamy heart of North Carolina's 11th District. We learn the real differences between elephants and donkeys, why Democrats go to hell, and we see a certain politico of national note paying tribute to classic British comedy.

WNCNN is a weekly faux news series highlighting the shortcomings of incumbent Congressman Charles Taylor. See the first episode here.

Because of YouTube's time constraints, this episode had to be split into two parts, which are presented here:

Part One

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NC-11: Meet Heath Shuler: Video Interview

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Sunday September 24, 2006 · 5:56 AM PDT

2006/09/24 · 05:56

Heath Shuler was kind enough to sit down for few minutes before a "meet-the-candidates" forum and answer some questions. With Charles Taylor outspending Shuler 4-1 on media buys, spending $300,000 last week alone, Scrutiny Hooligans are doing our small part in moving the media wars towards parity.

Watch it.

I'm unable to post the embedded YouTube video here. If anyone knows how I can, please advise in the comments.

NC-11: Western North Carolina News Network Launch!!!

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Monday September 18, 2006 · 6:00 AM PDT

2006/09/18 · 06:00

Attention all Kossacks!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FIRST EPISODE OF WNCNN

From the Press Release:

"Western North Carolina News Network (WNCNN), created by local political organizer, Gordon D. Smith, is political satire presented as a cable news program in the vein of Steven Colbert's The Colbert Report and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. WNCNN will air weekly on Mondays on numerous internet sites including YouTube.com beginning on September 18, 2006. The series intends to highlight the shortcomings of Republican incumbent Congressman Charles H. Taylor through the use of satire, sarcasm, and visual humor.

GordonNC

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 5:54 AM PDT

2006/09/13 · 05:54

Heath Shuler's fundraising for his race against Charles Taylor has been nothing short of stupendous. Outraising Taylor and spending less left Shuler with nearly three times as much cash on hand as the disreputable incumbent.

In what has become a perennial campaign habit, Charles Taylor took out two loans for his campaign totaling $850,000. That is, he's borrowing money from an unnamed bank to run against Shuler. Any candidate who gives more than $350,000 of his own money invokes the so-called Millionaire Rule.

GordonNC

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 5:49 AM PDT

2006/09/11 · 05:49

{KKK pic}

The 450-seat Thomas Auditorium on the campus of Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, NC was at least 3/4 full. White people from all over came to hear white people talk about how to have fewer brown people in our country. The two-hour "Immigration Town Hall Meeting" was paid for with your tax dollars, and I didn't hear a voice of dissent all night long. The Taylor for Congress team was there shooting footage for advertisements both during and after the event - call it government subsidized campaigning.

Press Secretary Deborah Potter came up to me, and though we'd never met, said, "Screwy, how are you. You lambasted me...". Ms. Potter was very nice, some might say flirtatious. She couldn't keep her eyes off of me for the first half-hour of the show, and she later told me, "behave yourself" after giggling at the famed Hooligan wit. See this dramatized video capture of Ms. Potter striding into the meeting. Read More

NC-11 News Roundup: Shuler's Still Ahead, But Here Come the Wingers

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 6:05 AM PDT

2006/09/07 · 06:05

{cross posted at Scrutiny Hooligans and BlueNC}

There's so much news on our race in NC-11 that it's hard to keep up. The Heath Shuler campaign, the Charles Taylor campaign, the DCCC, the ATLA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have all run television ads already. As the money and media buys roll in, so does the coverage.

The right-wing blogosphere has discovered the race, and they're shouting into the ether with posts like this one from "The American Thinker": "Shuler has been going negative against Taylor on TV for a while now, which might be effecting poll numbers, but that's nothing new. They've gone negative on Taylor many times before, so much so that a local right wing paper notes you can tell it is an election year when the area's left wing "alternative" press, our local equivalent to the Chicago Reporter, finds some new charge to bring against Taylor." Read More

NC-11: It's Time You Met Congressman Charles Taylor

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 8:35 PM PDT

2006/09/04 · 20:35

You know your morbid curiosity has been getting the better of you. You've seen his vacant off-screen gaze in the television ads. You've seen the photos. And Jeebus knows you've seen the 16-year old picture used in Taylor mailings and too many newspapers. Now's your chance to lay eyes, ears, and immigration questions on Congressman Charles Taylor. From an email:

"Please join me and our special guest, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), at an Immigration Town Hall Meeting taking place on Saturday, September 9th from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm at the Thomas Auditorium in the David W. Sink, Jr. Building, located at Blue Ridge Community College's main campus in Henderson County."

GordonNC

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Monday August 07, 2006 · 5:36 AM PDT

2006/08/07 · 05:36

With only 93 days left between today and the general elections in November, there's a new urgency to our efforts. For nearly six years, we've watched the Bush Republicans take this country skidding along a precipice of disaster: Iraq, Katrina, Debt, Deficit, Medicare, Anti-Choice, Corruption, Lying, Bigotry, Anti-Science, Pro-Oil, Spying, Torture. The list could go on and on.

But in 93 days America has a choice. Voters across North Carolina have a choice. But the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Republican Noise Machine is gearing up, as usual, to paint Democrats like Ned Lamont as "insurgents", to scare voters with cries of doom if they vote for Democrats, to ignore the central role Republicans like Robin Hayes and Charles Taylor have played in the failure of the Bush administration. Republicans want voters to stay the course and keep the can't-shoot-straight gang in power for another two years. Read More

NC-11: Audio Remix of Charles Taylor's Attack Ad

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 1:00 PM PDT

2006/07/24 · 13:00

If you've been following the Congressional race in NC-11, you're aware that the ethically bankrupt Charles Taylor released his first radio ad of the campaign 2 1/2 weeks ago (Listen to it here). The ad tars Shuler as a Nancy Pelosi liberal and warns listeners that Shuler intends to win on the votes of illegal immigrants. In otherwords, it's complete nonsense.

And now, thanks to the deviant minds behind www.taylorsucks.org, Taylor's ad has been remixed to more accurately indicate who's who in this race.

Click here to listen to the uncensored remix.

Click here to listen to the radio-friendly remix. Read More

NC-11 Upgraded From "Leans Republican" to "Toss-Up"

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Friday June 30, 2006 · 11:26 AM PDT

2006/06/30 · 11:26

I just received this from the Heath Shuler campaign:

"Friends, I have some great news to share with you today.
Just yesterday the Cook Political Report, one of the most respected political newsletters in the country, moved our race from "Leans Republican" into the "Toss-Up" category. This is excellent news for the campaign and another sign of our growing momentum.

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 3:34 PM PDT

2006/05/05 · 15:34

Live from Malaprop's, one of the top independent book stores in America, come Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga to promote, discuss, and sign copies of Crashing the Gate.

My battery may get me through the whole event, so updates will be available as long as the power is on.

At 6:30pm 30 people have already gathered. A store employee leaned over to me a moment ago to let me know he would be unplugging the computers and disabling the wireless connection. Both Brainshrub and I let him know that it probably wasn't a good idea.

More at 7pm. --- UPDATES after the jump --- Read More

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(NC-11) Heath Shuler: An Introduction

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NC-11: Meet Heath Shuler: Video Interview

NC-11: Western North Carolina News Network Launch!!!

NC-11: Taylor Pulls Millionaire Trigger; Shuler Commences Kicking Ass

NC-11: The Vanguard of the Anti-Immigrant Movement Comes To Flat Rock

NC-11 News Roundup: Shuler's Still Ahead, But Here Come the Wingers

NC-11: It's Time You Met Congressman Charles Taylor

Screwy Hoolie's One Percent Doctrine

NC-11: Audio Remix of Charles Taylor's Attack Ad

NC-11 Upgraded From "Leans Republican" to "Toss-Up"

LiveBlogging Markos and Jerome in Asheville UPDATED