NYT Endorses Lamont for CT Senate!

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 6:31 PM PDT

2006/10/28 · 18:31

this is just a one-liner, sorry, but no one is on the open thread..... Read More

REMINDER: Come meet NY Bri In Rhinebeck!

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Wednesday July 26, 2006 · 3:48 PM PDT

2006/07/26 · 15:48

For everyone in the Rhinebeck area on Sunday afternoon, I'm co-hosting a meet-up for our own NY Bri, Brian Keeler, in support of his run for NYS Senate. It's a great way to see Brian and to get to know other Dems in and around Rhinebeck. (You can also check his website, http://keeler2006.com/ for info.) Read More

REMINDER: Come meet NY Bri In Rhinebeck!

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 1:21 PM PDT

2006/07/19 · 13:21

For everyone in the Rhinebeck area on Sunday, I'm co-hosting a meet-up for our own NY Bri, Brian Keeler. Read More

ACTION ALERT: Write to Specter NOW (please!)

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 9:30 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 09:30

Arlen Specter has caved (as we of course knew he would). In his Statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senator assures conservatives that

I have assured the President that I would give his nominees quick Committee hearings and early Committee votes so floor action could be promptly scheduled. I have voted for all of President Bush's judicial nominees in Committee and on the floor, and I have no reason to believe that I'll be unable to support any individual President Bush finds worthy of nomination. I believe I can help the President get his nominees approved just as I did on confirmation of two controversial Pennsylvania Circuit nominees when other, similarly situated Circuit nominees, were being filibustered.

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 · 10:42 AM PST

2004/11/10 · 10:42

Dear Fellow Kossacks:

It's time to get off our tushies - strike that - stay on our tushies and do what we do best: WRITE! Two issues have recently been discussed on these pages, which we CAN and SHOULD work to influence: voting accountability and legislation intended to protect pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. You can either post your progress right here, or start your own diary if you decide to "own" a state - which others can then hotlist and keep adding onto until you have your own page/link. (Sorry - I'm a computer troglodyte, or I'd help with the logistics myself...)

Anyhow, here we go - and with great thanks to Meteor Blades for helping to mobilize yours truly --
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What Can I Do to Help, Part 1

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 7:57 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 07:57

OK you nice liberal, progressive Democrat sitting at your computer. You're pondering our losses and plumbing the depths of the universe to figure out what happened. And you're acting like every other nice progressive Democrat - namely, severely overthinking the problem.

Is there anything wrong with the Democrats' message? Not really - nothing that some tweaking couldn't fix.
Is there anything unappealing with the Democrats' goals? Again, not really - nothing that can't be resolved.
Is there anything wrong with Democratic candidates? Not on the whole.

So what gives?

Occam's Razor, folks - the simplest answer is usually the right one, and it's staring you right in the face: Too many people in this country simply don't believe us. Period.
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Announcement: Nov 3 Election Briefing

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Monday November 01, 2004 · 10:22 AM PST

2004/11/01 · 10:22

From our friends at IATPaction.org:

On NOVEMBER 3 at 11:00 AM Central Standard Time Mark Ritchie will be hosting an online
conference call to review the outcome of IATPaction's extraordinary November
2/National Voice campaign to increase citizen participations in the 2004 elections.

Here's the rest of the email I received, with all the details:
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An Open Letter to Operation Truth

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Saturday October 30, 2004 · 3:23 PM PDT

2004/10/30 · 15:23

Today I received the book you sent me, Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq. I wish I could say thank you for this gift, which I assume was in acknowledgement of the donation I sent you. But I wish I had never seen it.

Not that it isn't a beautifully compiled book, what with those compelling pictures, stories and quotes from soldiers injured in Iraq.
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Eminem and the Senior Vote

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 8:51 AM PDT

2004/10/27 · 08:51

OK. I was as struck by the power of Mosh as anyone. But before we canonize Eminem (which I couldn't recommend anyway until he outgrows the crotch-grabbing) for single-handedly making the country want to get out and VOTE!, let's all take a moment to think about and THANK one demographic group that already does: our seniors.

As reported a couple of years ago on the website GothamGazette.com (a great resource for New Yorkers): "People over 65 is the highest voting group and the only group that has increased its turnout since the 1960s," said Curtis Gans, who studies voting trends at the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "They're the last generation imbued with a sense of social civic duty."
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Top 10 Reasons to vote for W (NOT!)

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Monday October 25, 2004 · 2:45 PM PDT

2004/10/25 · 14:45

OK, all you Kossack whingers! I don't even have to see our president's "final" 60-second ad buy --which promises the unvarnished (dare I say, "unplugged"?) W -- to know there are so many reasons to vote for him, which you all obviously haven't considered. So here's my list, kinda-Letterman style (thus the reverse order numbering). Read More

Orlando Sentinel Endorses Kerry!

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Saturday October 23, 2004 · 8:11 PM PDT

2004/10/23 · 20:11

I would try to write some pithy comments and insightful analysis, but I'm on the verge of hyperventilating. So please forgive me and just read the endorsement!
Here's the link:http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edped124102404oct24,0,6815713.story?coll=orl-home-he adlines Read More

What's Your GOTV Story?

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Friday October 22, 2004 · 6:16 AM PDT

2004/10/22 · 06:16

Let's share fellowship and add to the excitement and momentum. What's working? What isn't?

When I worked on a local campaign in NYC a few years ago, the "senior advisors" insisted that mass media would win the election. GOTV got short shrift, and there was real tension between the GOTV folks and the advisors. My candidate lost - who knows what would have happened if we'd had a better ground game? Read More

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