Is there any candidate for Congress anywhere like Marianne Williamson? Short answer: "No." Slightly longer answer, "Alas, no." I want to ask you to watch the remarkable video statement she just released explaining why she's running for Congress and what she expects to achieve if she gets there. That's why it's embedded on the top of the page. It's almost Grayson-like or Bernie Sanders-like in its scope.
I met state Senator Ted Lieu at John Amato's birthday dinner a few weeks ago. I didn't know a lot about him-- just that he's one of the hard-working progressives in the state legislature and that he infuriated the banksters by writing and passing-- it took two sessions-- a consumer protection bill that stopped shady mortgage come-ons dead in their tracks.
I can't say I know Keith Ellison well. DWT has been covering him since 2006 when he left the Minnesota House of Representatives to run for Congress. He's a natural leader and was elected co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
I would like to see environmental safety true believers like Paul Clements (D-MI) and Marianne Willimson (I-CA) take on Fred Upton and the rest of the self-satisfied elites in Washington who haven't gotten the urgency of Climate Change into their skulls yet-- and probably never will.I got very nervous this week after seeing 4 fundraising requests from an outfit I had never heard of, Environmental Majority.
This morning a friend asked me if I was aware that Social Media could help radio programmers-- not to mention A&R executives and retailers-- determine which artists would make it big and which songs would be hits. Although they were talking specifically about the very formulaic and relatively simplistic country music genre, there's no reason why this report from Inside Radio couldn't be applied across the board to all genres of music.
Are North Carolina's Moral Mondays too far away for you to really get what they're about? Hint: they're not about anything Wendy Greuel will ever understand.Marianne Williamson isn't a political careerist. And political careerists-- and political careerists-in-the-making-- resent her for it. Many snicker that she's "just" a spiritual teacher or a guru of some kind, a put-down among political careerists.
When's the last time we asked you to sign a petition? Right… never. But our friends at Daily Kos are offering the kind of strategic initiative that appeals to us. They want progressives to express their frustration with President Obama's tendency to fill the judiciary with corporate lawyers. It's been making a lot of us sick? Not you? Did you know that just over 70% of President Obama's judicial nominees have been corporate lawyers?
Do you find it odd that there are some labor unions who contribute to Republicans? By far the building trades unions are the biggest culprits, especially when it comes to Mafia-backed candidates like Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm.
This is how EMILY's List lost Wendy Greuel her last race. What garbage will they throw at Ted Lieu?In 2008, Obama scored 64% against McCain in what is now CA-33. Last cycle he did pretty well too-- 61-37% against Romney. The PVI of the Los Angeles district is a solid D+11 and not even a DCCC led by Steve Israel could lose a district that blue, right? Well, that's what we're here to discuss today.
