Dutch Ruppersberger Considers Running for Senate

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Sunday March 13, 2005 · 4:25 PM PST

2005/03/13 · 16:25

I received the following email today:

Senator Sarbanes Decides not to Seek Re-Election
Dear Brian,
As you may know, Senator Paul Sarbanes has decided not to seek re-election to the US Senate in 2006. I am seriously considering running for the Senate and I'm now discussing this with my family, friends and supporters.
I value your input. Please take a few moments today to let me know your thoughts. You may use my website's feedback form, or reply to this email. I will post a sampling of the comments on the website.
Running for Senate will require a much more ambitious statewide campaign. We'll need more of everything. More dedicated supporters, more organizers, more volunteers, more resources, more money.
If I can count on you in this effort, please let me know. You can volunteer or contribute today, or pledge your support to help later in the campaign.
In case you missed it, please visit my website to read my press release on Senator Sarbanes' decision not to seek re-election
Thanks for your tireless energy and support. I cannot do this without you!
Dutch

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Friday March 11, 2005 · 8:33 AM PST

2005/03/11 · 08:33

Anyway, I was watching CSPAN a few minutes ago and there was this Press Conference at the National League of Cities being given by DC Mayor Williams, the mayor of Indianapolis, and Jim Hunt, a member of the city council of Clarksburg, WV. All Democrats. They all spoke well on the need for preserving and expanding Section 8 housing and to stop foisting unfunded mandates on cities. Hunt spoke particularly well in my opinion.

So my question to you West Virginians out there is just who is this guy? Does he have a chance of moving up to something bigger?

The MD Dem. Party Learns to Fight: A Lesson for Others.

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Sunday March 06, 2005 · 2:36 PM PST

2005/03/06 · 14:36

As one of hundreds of members of the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee, I had the privelage of voting for Terry Lierman as the new state party chair last December. Over the past few months I've been amazed by just how much he's done to change the party.

Not only has he travelled around the state as a full-time chair talking to the grassroots, supported Dean for DNC Chair, and discussed small donor strategies, he's done wonders in the area of communication.

Before Terry was chair the state party usually sent maybe a dozen press releases a year. Now that Terry's in charge I see one in mailbox at least twice a week. The results are clear: more grassroots Dems know their talking points and the chair is being quoted a lot more in the papers. And these aren't the old fashioned meally mouth press releases: they are powerful and hard hitting. For instance, check this one out from a couple days ago. Read More

Full Iraqi Election Results?

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Tuesday February 15, 2005 · 9:49 AM PST

2005/02/15 · 09:49

Most of what is being reported in the media is the vote totals (and no. of seats won) of the top three parties in the Iraqi elections. I've heard that about a dozen parties got enough votes to win seats; however, I have not been able to see any of the vote totals (and no of seats won) for these parties or the number of votes received by parties that did not win any seats.

The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq has the full results up on their website. Unfortunately for me all of the lists and candidates are given in Arabic. Even if they were directly translated I might not know exactly what a party is by its name (for instance Allawi's Iraqi National Accord does not indicate by its name that its associated with Allawi). Is there anyone who has access to the full results and if possible explanations of what the parties' are.

Oh I should note that I found it very interesting that among Iraqi voters who cast their votes in the US, Allawi's party came in fifth behind UIA (Sistani's list), the Kurdish list, two different Assyrian Christian parties, and the communists (!?!).

A Personal Message from DNC Vice Chair Candidate Susie Turnbull

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Tuesday February 08, 2005 · 6:17 PM PST

2005/02/08 · 18:17

Susan Turnbull, a candidate for DNC Vice Chair and a friend of mine, has asked me to cross-post this MyDD post by her . She does not have diary posting privileges at Daily Kos yet. This is a great opportunity for us to tell the party our ideas, so please recommend this diary.

Hello, my name is Susie Turnbull. I'm running for DNC Vice Chair, and I am a Democrat through and through.

I know that netroots support and enthusiasm is essential to our party's success in the twenty-first century. The DNC has a tremendous opportunity to make use of this resource in order to put the Democratic Party back on the path to victory. Online support should be valuable to the party not only for party fundraising efforts, but as a source of ideas. Read More

What Should Happen to DFA?

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Saturday February 05, 2005 · 1:50 PM PST

2005/02/05 · 13:50

So now that Dean's elevation to the Chairmanship of our great party of progress is all but done (we're just waiting for the fat lady to sing on February 12th), what should happen to that innovative organization known as Democracy for America? When I spoke with Gov. Dean during the BlogPAC conference call he mentioned that they were looking into ways DFA could contiune its mission, but beyond that I have no idea what is going on over there in Burlington. Perhaps if this diary gets recommended and gets some good comments on it, the people at DFA will notice and take the suggestions into account in their planning.

No doubt the biggest change will have to come in leadership. Governor Dean will obviously be to busy to remain in the DFA leadership. Should the leadership of DFA become "professionalized" and run by talented political operative or does there need to be a public face? Could or should a talented former public official be brought in to run the organization? Any suggestions?

And then there is the issue of mission... (more after the jump).
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How Joe Trippi and Zephyr Teachout Saved Daily Kos

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Saturday January 15, 2005 · 9:50 PM PST

2005/01/15 · 21:50

Zephyr Teachout was certainly not good for Markos lately (though we won't discuss the merits of that case here). But she was good for Daily Kos.

It seems to me that Joe Trippi's (timely or untimely depending on how you look at it)endorsement of Simon Rosenberg for Chair and Zephyr's "blogger ethics" controversy has done some considerable good for this site. It has finally got people away from debating "fraud in Ohio! [...]Bev's latest [...]." Now these current debates haven't been the most progressively productive (a lot of name calling has certainly) occured. But they should pass in a couple of days and then we will be able to get back to work on being informed and planning out ideas for grassroots action.

Just Spoke with Gov. Dean on BlogPAC Call

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Wednesday January 12, 2005 · 2:57 PM PST

2005/01/12 · 14:57

I got in on the BlogPac conference call with Governor Dean about his candidacy for chairman. It was a very interesting conversation and I was impressed with his candor (he put everything on the record).

Anna of Annatopia has done an excellent job of liveblogging the conference call here. It would be redundant for me to give a complete run down of what was said since Anna has already done so; however, I will make a few comments on my thoughts and on some things Anna couldn't catch as she attempted to superhumanly get everything down. Read More

WHFS gone...Damn Media Consolidation

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Wednesday January 12, 2005 · 12:32 PM PST

2005/01/12 · 12:32

The world famous WHFS progresive rock station for the Washington-Baltimore area is gone:

In a shocking move, Infinity has converted 20-year modern rock bastion WHFS Washington, D.C., to Spanish as "El Zol" 99.1. The station will play a mixture of Salsa, Merengue and Bachata, targeting adults 25-54.
[...]
WHFS became one of the country's original free-form progressive rock stations in the mid-to-late '60s, evolving to modern rock in the mid-'80s. It spawned the HFStival, the grand-daddy of station festivals and a perennial summer concert box-office leader.

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Saturday January 08, 2005 · 8:24 PM PST

2005/01/08 · 20:24

Here's a little thing us Kossacks can do to help (preferably if you're from MD, but feel free to make the long-distance call if you're not). WBAL-TV Batltimore just (11pm news) read a quote from newly elected MD Democratic Party Chairman, Terry Lierman, about some radio ads being run by the MD Rep. Party. Unfortunately, they pronounced his name as "Liar Man" rather than "Leer man" (as in Lear jet)(either carelessly or a demonstration of conservative media bias). This is a little step and we can make a difference into shocking them into never making this mistake again. Tell them to pronounce Terry's name correctly and stop showing their conservative media bias.

Here are the numbers for WBAL-TV:

WBAL-TV11
3800 Hooper Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-467-3000

Please recommend so we can get a lot of calls. If you call, please leave a note in the comments.
[Update]: Use the breaking news story line. That will make sure it gets their attention. Say your're a regular viewer and you'd jsut likme to make a quick complaint. Never give an inch. Fight all the battles, large and small.

Why Chris Bowers is Wrong Regarding the WoT

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 4:10 PM PST

2004/12/30 · 16:10

Over at MyDD, Chris Bowers (who I highly respect) writes that Democrats should abandon the War on Terror frame, including the phrase War on Terror:

The problem is that we are gleefully going along with the conservative frame "war on terror." This is a battle we can never win, because it evokes inherently conservative ideas. Complicity with this frame will only serve to make the country more conservative, no matter what contortions and forms of hyper-cognition we engage in, and thus reduce our own chances of victory.

I have a better solution. We need to steal the war on terror frame. Read More

DLC No Longer Stands for Anything

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 8:17 AM PST

2004/12/30 · 08:17

Back when the DLC was founded, it actually stood for something: being a centrist Democrat. We can agree or disagree about whether their views were a good thing for the party (I think on some policies good, others bad), but they were a pretty coherent group.

However, once "New Democrat" Bill Clinton became President it became popular for everyone and their sister to start calling themselves a New Democrat. I was looking at an old copy of the DLC's 2003 edition of "One hundred New Democrats" to watch, a list of the 100 most promising state and local politicians below the Gubernatorial level.
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