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Mfume video
Kweisi Mfume has released a video message on his website explaining why he's running for the Senate in Maryland. Close race. Video by Joe Trippi & Associates.
View ArticlePDA Endorses Mfume
Progressive Democrats of America enthusiastically endorses Democratic candidateKweisi Mfumefor U.S. Senate in Maryland.
View ArticleMichigan Republican Primary Getting Ugly
The Knollenberg-Godchaux race is heating up to an intensity never seen before in the district, which spans Farmington to Oakland Township and Waterford to Royal Oak.
View ArticleGov. Kitzhaber Soliciting Health Care Reform Ideas
Go to John Kitzhaber's blog on ArchimedesMovement.org. and put in your two cents. The Archimedes Movement has been holding meetups and forums all across the state of Oregon and getting input from...
View ArticleMary Bono Agrees to Debate David Roth
.... under certain conditions. Here's the story: David Roth's got a real shot at taking out Mary Bono.
View ArticleNY 19 : AFL - CIO Backs John Hall
John Hall picked up the endorsement from the state AFL-CIO Monday in his quest to challenge Republican Rep. Sue Kelly in the state's 19th Congressional district. - AP
View Article"Dems Rally Behind John Hall"
recordonline.com Consensus developing in NY-19 about who best to take down Sue Kelly...
View ArticleWal-Mart Shill Compares Dems to Hezbollah Guerillas
Herman Cain on TownHall.com calls the Democrats who've been taking on Wal-Mart "Hezbocrats."
View ArticleBig Endorsements for Mfume
The Hill's Jonathan Kaplan reports that Kweisi Mfume will pick up crucial endorsements on Wednesday as primary day draws near:
View ArticleCA Attorney General: Corporate Water Boy Wants to be Top Cop
There's been a lot of talk about the recent rise of violent crime in cities across America. Chuck Poochigian, the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Cailfornia, particularly likes to...
View ArticleNY-19 John Hall set to take down Sue Kelly... UPDATED w/ POLL!!
CQ Politics story about the campaign to unseat rabid Bush supporter Sue Kelly.
View ArticleTrippi's TV Ads for Jerry Brown
"Brown, mayor of Oakland and a former California governor, hits Poochigian, a state senator from Fresno, in his 30-second spots for Poochigian's opposition to a ban on 50-caliber sniper rifles,...
View ArticleCA- AG: Poochigian a Nutcase? Vote Now!
LA Times poll on Trippi's "Bullet" Ad for Jerry Brown in the California AG Race.
View ArticleClean Elections in California! To the Barricades!
Campaign finance measure draws big foes says Monterey County Herald Proposition 89 Creates Political Fervor says The sacunion.com What's going on here??
View ArticleNY-19: Politics and Disabled Vets
Rep. Sue Kelly (NY-19) is executing an elemental political scam, (very efficiently I must add) that is typical of the political manuevering going on in every voting district in America -- and which...
View ArticleCA: Prop 89 to limit corporate campaign cash
Dan Morain at the LA Times writes "A November initiative could dramatically transform California politics, raising taxes to pay for publicly financed campaigns, strictly limiting private giving and...
View ArticleFLA-10, Samm Simpson taking on Rep. Bill Young
Here's a campaign definitely deserving of respect -- and support.http://sammsimpsonforcongress.com/
View ArticleA little help here ...
NYT story today by Mike Leibovich about the party pulling another Hackett, this time on Jim Marcinkowski in Michigan.
View ArticleProposition 89: Rappin' RN's for Finance Reform
California RNs put together a rap music video "About Time for 89"
View ArticleFourteen Miles to the Gallon
I came across this list of who drives what -- at our expense. Apparently, members of Congress can lease whatever they want. The list reads like a list of the top 50 luxury cars in America. There are...
View ArticleCalifornia: Prop 89 Campaigners Doing a Great Job!
I'va always believed that the best groups of people in the world are nurses and librarians (current First Lady excepted). The California Nurses Association is running an outstanding campaign for...
View ArticleObama and Edwards and You and Wal-Mart
You're on the Conference Calls Tonight -- with Barak Obama and John Edwards.
View ArticleFrist Says Johnson in Persistent Vegetative State
Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a former heart surgeon and Senate majority leader, went to the floor last night to argue that doctors had erred in saying South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson is not in a...
View ArticleEleanor's Revenge
Time for a cheap shot, an updated version of a joke that people used to tell about Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor wasn’t what you’d call easy on the eyes, but she was nonetheless a beautiful and kind...
View ArticleEdwards is Right: Congress Must Stand Firm
With April truly turning out to be the cruelest month so far this year in Iraq for American troops (death toll past 100 in the deadliest month so far this year)and increasingly clear signs that we are...
View ArticleHelp End the War
I posted yesterday about Edward's urging Congress to stand firm in the Iraq war veto showdown.
View ArticlePat Schroeder? Hillary? No... it's Mitt Romney!
Wah! Wah!Am I the only one who noticed that Mitt Romney was bawling like a little girl when he announced he was stepping aside in the national interest?
View ArticleRNC Ready for Convention, Arms Entire St. Paul Police Force with Tasers
Fox Newsgleefully reports that surrogates for Republican Goon Squads will be armed and ready to crush any dissent at the Republican National Convention.
View ArticleTell McCain to Give it up ....
Campaign Money Watch has an excellent ad that zeros in on a McCain vulnerability....
View ArticleSleaze Squared ...
Here it comes ... The Iowa Independent's Jason Hancock is reporting that "two media consultants who played key roles in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004 and the Willie Horton" ads have...
View ArticleAnd God Said to Michele Bachmann "Run for Congress"
And Michele said:"Okay, Lord"Courtesy of The Minnesota Independent(for whom I work)Short clips from Michele Bachmann's speech at the Twin Cities megachurch Living Word Christian Center have circulated...
View ArticleA Familiar Stage in the Campaign
Anybody who has worked campaigns knows that there comes a point toward the end where some people will throw in all the garbage they can because it's too late in the game for an opponent to effectively...
View ArticleFormer GOP Rep. Expects Dem Landslide, Blames Republican Party Extremists
The National Review picked up this piece by David O. Williams in The Colorado Independent (for whom I work):McInnis says he could have beaten Udall; predicts GOP bloodbath
View ArticleAn Eviction in Manassas ...
"On a chilly Monday morning in December, at a complex of several hundred modestly priced townhomes in a working-class area of the city of Manassas in suburban Virginia, it was business as usual....
View ArticleMr. Peanut Withdraws Nomination to Head FDA
The Obama Administration was sent reeling again today by the decision of Mr. Peanut to withdraw his nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration. The White House insists that it was entirely Mr....
View ArticleNorm Coleman: God Wants Me to Serve
"It worked for Rep. Michele Bachmann. In 2006, the Stillwater Republican told worshipers at her church that "Twenty-two months ago, [God] called me to run for United States Congress." She was elected —...
View Article"We're Running out of Rich People in this Country"
Keen observation from that great statesman from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann...Fleshing: U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s ranting has the blog world buzzing yet again this week. Late last week, in an...
View ArticleGonzales to Leahy: "I'll Cooperate..."
"Nothing to Hide" says Former AG ...You can't buy quotes like that. The Washington Independent's David Weigel saw Gonzales at some public forum and had the good sense to ask the question ...
View ArticleA Bad Joke with a Good Ending ...
Maybe...Anyway, this is the way things should turn out. A Minnesota Republican State Rep from the suburbs had ventured into an alien district -- on the other side of the tracks -- on a sort of...
View ArticleGee, That's Tough: Hard Times for AEI ...
David Weigel, who covers the conservatives for The Washington Independent, writes that the party's over for what Slate's Tim Noah called "the wellspring of President Bush’s worst ideas."
View ArticleBanks Fight Hard to Protect Overdraft Fees
$17.5 BILLION worth!!In this morning's Washington Independent, my colleague Mike Lillis writes about the fierce battle the banks are waging to stave off any reduction in their cash cow -- overdraft...
View ArticleDioxin Laced Fish Fillets for Michigan Food Bank
My intrepid colleague at the Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer, has a story out this morning about the big Tittabawassee River Walleye Festival in Michigan.It's an annual event organized by the...
View Article"You are a Tough Lady..."
Journalism lives.To observe a skilled and serious interviewer at work, check out The Newshour's Margaret Warner grilling Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari...
View ArticleObama Pushing "Cash for Clunker" Scheme for Dealing with Old People
The wildly successful "Cash for Clunkers" program may have inspired a cure for President Obama's health care woes...
View ArticleThe Death of Jane Q. Patient
This piece was just posted on KevinMD and I wanted to share it here. Cindy Chapman was a volunteer for Obama.
View ArticlePeople in the Streets
I wrote an email to Tom Hayden after I read his excellent piece in the Nation, "Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq." My thinking was that he was right, of course, but that people would have to...
View ArticleComment of the Day
NYT Comment of the Day: HDNY 3 hours agoIt has become painfully obvious that anyone who wants to vote for a traditional moderate Republican has only one choice - Hillary Clinton.
View ArticleSanders v. Clinton: A No-Brainer
Here is something for Democrats to think about: Sanders beats Cruz, and Sanders beats Trump in a general election matchup. He beats both with a wider margin than Hillary. And he does so without...
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