If someone offered me a huge sum for the Blue America mailing list, I would tell them no. If they doubled the offer, I would tell them to go suck wind. Today I got an e-mail from a candidate in New York who I've never been in contact with, Aaron Woolf, a film producer from New York's North Country who is trying to hold a rough swing district for the Democrats.
With her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearings to serve as ambassador to the Bahamas coming up Monday, former White House lawyer Cassandra Butts better be prepared to have a genius like Young Johnny McCranky or Marco Rubio ask her "the ever-been question."by KenIt's not exactly news that many if not most of our ambassadors to foreign countries don't count high among their credentials any great familiarity with the countries they're tapped to represen
"The clandestine influence of the Kochs and their Palm Springs friends would be much reduced if they were forced to play in the sunshine."-- from an editorial in tomorrow's NYT, "The Koch Party"by KenI've noted that the Koch Brothers have turned up in any number of posts from Howie and Noah, and worry that I haven't been wielding my wee cudgel often enough.
This morning, the first Blue America contribution after we sent out a letter about Lee Rogers' race in CA-25, was from someone whose name I didn't recognize, Chris Horwitz, a PhD and the CEO of Electrogrip, a respected company in Pittsburgh known worldwide for advanced electrostatic gripping solutions.
Human Rights Investigations has just launched its first ever fundraising campaign – using the crowd-funding site Indiegogo. In recent times we’ve had the misfortune to see mainstream human rights organisations using their resources in support of military interventions. If you find that annoying, and would like to send a message that human rights should be […]
Several months ago, when the DCCC endorsed Pete Aguilar for the D+5 Inland Empire congressional seat he lost last year to two Republicans because of his obvious inability to connect with Democratic voters, I tried calling him to ask him where he stands on issues. Like virtually all DCCC-manufactured candidates, his website is devoid of issue positions. I reached what I thought was a naive volunteer, a pleasant kid with a Chechen accent, named Boris.
Pelosi raising cash for Ohio anti-gay/anti-Choice crusader Jennifer GarrisonSaturday, we mentioned that Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, a Boehner crony and the Republican congressman from the Lansing area of central Michigan, is leading the efforts to allow the Cheney-initiated domestic spying agenda of the N.S.A. to stay in place.
