AT&T doubles down on hiring Trump insiders

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Friday July 06, 2018 · 12:43 PM PDT

2018/07/06 · 12:43

AT&T learned nothing from their disastrous hiring of Michael Cohen. Now they’ve hired Rex Tillerson’s chief of staff from his time at the State Department, Margaret Peterlin. According to Bloomberg, “Peterlin has begun work as a senior vice president for global external and public affairs, one of several executives reporting to Dallas-based David McAtee, who’s organizing his staff after the acquisition of WarnerMedia.”

Peterlin and Tillerson managed to alienate most of the staff at State; if she does the same at AT&T, a bunch of their current customers will switch to Credo by next year.

Here’s a link to the story www.bloomberg.com/...

Letter to the Editor - Kerry Wins

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Thursday September 30, 2004 · 10:07 PM PDT

2004/09/30 · 22:07

One of the earlier diaries contained a letter to the editor that helped me get mine going, so I'm returning the favor for anyone else who wants some thought starters.

"For once, a Presidential debate that focused on issues rather than fluff and offered clear differences of opinion! America's first chance to see President Bush and Senator Kerry on the same stage should dispell the doubts that some voters have had, up until now, about John Kerry's ability to lead our country. Senator Kerry was clearly the calmer and more articulate of the two candidates, offering a consistent vision, succinct views backed up by facts, and a clear difference between his and the President's national security plans.

As Senator Kerry said at one point, "it's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and be wrong." As this debate made clear, this President has certainly been wrong many times in the past three and a half years, and I expect Senator Kerry to do much better for the next four years."

Rep. Hostettler detained at airport with 9mm Glock

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Tuesday April 20, 2004 · 6:26 PM PDT

2004/04/20 · 18:26

According to CNN, Republican Hostettler claims that he "completely forgot" that the gun was in his carry-on bag. I believe him, but I have to wonder where else he's packing that Glock.

If I recall correctly, Hostettler's district is competitive. I certainly hope that his boneheaded move loses him a bunch of swing votes!

Kerry needs better joke-writers

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Thursday April 15, 2004 · 8:48 PM PDT

2004/04/15 · 20:48

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart made fun of a Kerry joke about gas prices, which went something like this:

The way gas prices are going, George Bush and Dick Cheney are going to have to car-pool to work.

As Stewart pointed out, George Bush already lives where he works.

I'm sure that the Kossack community can help the Kerry campaign by coming up with some better jokes about this topic. Please submit your ideas, and I'll submit the best ones to the Kerry blog.

Spitzer on Democrats and the Free Market

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Monday March 22, 2004 · 11:56 PM PST

2004/03/22 · 23:56

The March 22 TNR has a "must read" article by Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Celli (subscription only, unfortunately) about the role of government in the free market. They present a strong argument that I hope will be used by Kerry and the Democratic Party to take the high ground in the argument about the proper relationship between government and business.

According to Spitzer and Celli,

Government should act to ensure that markets run cleanly as well as smoothly. It should prevent market failures and right them when they occur. And it should ensure that markets uphold the broad values of our culture rather than debase them. In this vision, government action is necessary for free markets to work as they are intended--in an open, competitive, and fair manner. Read More

Who will Joe endorse?

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Tuesday February 03, 2004 · 11:05 PM PST

2004/02/03 · 23:05

The AP's Lolita Baldor (Nedra's alter ego?) reports that Lieberman is about to drop out of the race.

Will he endorse anybody? Who?

Dean Media Blitz After Debate

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Thursday January 22, 2004 · 4:35 PM PST

2004/01/22 · 16:35

I just received an email from Joe Trippi saying that Howard Dean will be on Letterman tonight! Howard and Judy will appear earlier tonight on ABC Prime Time Thursday.

I don't know if this will work for Dean, but it certainly gives him a better chance than doing nothing.

Decent Dean Story from Nedra Pickler!?

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Monday January 19, 2004 · 2:38 AM PST

2004/01/19 · 02:38

This one looks okay to me. Mostly straightforward coverage of positive aspects of the Carter visit and Judy Steinberg Dean's appearance at the Davenport rally.

There's is one example of overzealous fact-checking at the end:

In recent weeks, however, he has spent more time talking about religion and mentioned that it played a role in his decision in 2000 to sign landmark legislation giving marriage rights to gay couples -- a reason he never cited four years ago.

Kerry slam of Agriculture Dept. surfaces

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Saturday January 17, 2004 · 3:31 PM PST

2004/01/17 · 15:31

From the Des Moines Register

Reports surfaced Friday that Kerry once said the U.S. Agriculture Department should be abolished or scaled back to help "reduce the size of Washington."

"Get rid of the Agriculture Department, or at least render it three-quarters the size it is today," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a story published in the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette in 1996.

How much will this hurt Kerry in Iowa? The timing and substance of this statement looks bad for Kerry. However, the statement is from 1996, so he may be able to point to his more recent record.

Rasmussen and why I dislike tracking polls

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Tuesday January 13, 2004 · 1:09 AM PST

2004/01/13 · 01:09

I dislike trackers because their rolling average of past results (past 3 days) hides the larger variations in daily results, making it harder to know what's really going on.

Clark's recent move in the ARG New Hampshire tracker was a real trend, but the campaigns knew about it before we did because they were looking at daily polling results.

Other shifts in single day polling results turn out to be random error or bad polling that the three-day rolling average turns into a "trend." This happened several times in Gallup's Gore-Bush 2000 tracking, and each time the media bought into the nonexistent trend.

Rasmussen's tracker now contains either a day of bad data or a real change. Clark apparently equalled or edged out Dean in their 1/12 daily interviews -- that's the only way to explain the change from the 1/11 to 1/12 tracking results. Look for the 1/13 and 1/14 tracking to report further tightening in the Dean-Clark race.

1/9 1/10 1/11 1/12
Dean 25% 24% 24% 21%
Clark 15 16 16 17
Edwards 6 7 9 9
Lieberman 13 10 9 8
Gephardt 11 10 7 8
Kerry 10 9 8 8

Is 1/12 a real change? It's possible, given the continuing barrage of attacks on Dean. It could also be random; I have less confidence in tracking results from Friday, Saturday and Sunday interviewing than from weeknights, when there is more consistency in the types of people who are found at home. Politus and fladem have also questioned the reliability of Rasmussen's polling. They report that he is a right-wing-nut whose 2000 polls favored Bush.

I report, you decide.

Tomorrow's ARG NH Tracking Results

KeithH

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Wednesday January 07, 2004 · 12:16 AM PST

2004/01/07 · 00:16

Most likely, tomorrow's NH results will show another dip for Dean and a gain for Clark.

Why? Since 2/3 of the ARG tracking results are same from one day to the next, Dean's 2 point drop in one day actually means that his Jan 5 result is about 6 points worse than his January 2 result, while the reverse is true for Clark. This helps Clark's numbers and hurts Dean's for the next two days, even if the January 6-7 daily results look like January 3-4 rather than January 5.

So don't get excited if tomorrow's trend looks like this:

Jan 2-4 Jan 3-5 Jan 4-6
Dean 39 37 36
Clark 12 14 15
Kerry 14 14 14

However, if you see Dean or Clark move 2 or more points higher or lower than 36/15, you will have some real news.

New FBI WMD Alert?

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Tuesday December 30, 2003 · 1:05 PM PST

2003/12/30 · 13:05

According to the FBI, we should now be worrying about people with almanacs.

The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

Soon to come: beware of travelers carrying maps or atlases.

It said this information is often accompanied by photographs and maps.

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