Filings for 2006 House Races --We're kicking ass!

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Tuesday January 03, 2006 · 8:50 PM PST

2006/01/03 · 20:50

One of the main goals of the Democratic netroots is to not let the Republicans have any free rides this election -- to contest every House seat.

Two filing deadlines have now passed for candidates in two states Illinois and Texas. Things looked fairly bleak for Texas two weeks ago -- several districts were listed as having no competition. But when the smoke cleared only one Republican Representative will be faced with no Democratic challenger. Every district in Illinois will be contested. Read More

GOP Candidate for Governor tied to College Scandal

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 8:32 AM PST

2005/12/20 · 08:32

Former Massachussets Gov. William Weld is running for New York State Governor as a Republican, but it has recently been disclosed that he may be touched by the culture of corruption. Before engaging on his Gubenatorial bid, he was chief executive officer of Decker College, a Louisville, Ky. trade school. The school went under, and so may any hopes Weld may have of upsetting his Democratic challenger, State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer. Read More

What Can We Learn From A GOP victory?

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Sunday November 13, 2005 · 10:51 AM PST

2005/11/13 · 10:51

A popular two-term Democratic supervisor in Amherst, NY was recently upset by Satish Mohan, a University at Buffalo engineering professor. This was one of the few GOP victories in a general local sweep for the Democrats. It turns out that the GOP can't take much credit for his victory. Satish Mohan not only upset the endorsed Republican candidate in the primary, but almost ignored the local GOP in his drive to victory. He didn't even show up at party headquarters on election night. As detailed in this article in the Buffalo News Satish Mohan broke a lot of conventional political rules and may work as a model for Democrats to use the grassroots to break through in some nominally red districts. Read More

I visited Red State.org (so you won't have to)

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Wednesday August 03, 2005 · 5:06 AM PDT

2005/08/03 · 05:06

I went to Red State.org to see how the GOP reacted their near death experience in Ohio 2.

One poster EricK was snarking (inaccurately) that none of the candidates DailyKos has backed has won an election. (I seem to recall a Salazar among the Kos 13) He also basically rationalized away the close election as the result of Schmidt not getting the backing of the Club For Growth and having a war veteran go up against an exceptionally weak candidate. The guy at least had the honesty to label this as "spin"

Another poster, however, was not so smug about the election, calling it a "Wake up call" for the G.O.P. Interestingly, however, his prescription for victory was getting a candidate who followed the Club for Growth line of fiscal conservatism.

Basically they're either smug or scared and their solution to the 50 state strategy is drinking more Grover Norquist kool aid. I can't wait for the 2006 Congressional election. We're going to kick some serious butt.

A Small Sign of Hope

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 5:48 AM PDT

2005/06/24 · 05:48

I attended a free "Thursday in the Square" concert last night in Buffalo, NY featuring Eric Burdon and the Animals (yes he's still around, and his new band ROCKS). I left feeling a little more optimistic about the state of the nation. Read More

"Physician of the Year" Scam Linked to Rep. Tom Reynolds

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 8:16 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 08:16

Some of you may be familiar with the sleazy G.O.P. fundraising scheme in which physicians are told they have won a phony "Physician of the Year" award and are told to send either $500 to the National Republican Congressional Committee to receive the award in the mail or $1250 to attend a workshop in Washington D.C. to receive the award in person. The "award" is given to any medical physician who falls for the scam and sends in the money. While this scheme has been credited to Tom Delay, it is time to spread the "credit" around. Read More

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