Ohio Anti-SB5 Rally, Photos galore!

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Saturday February 26, 2011 · 4:36 PM PST

2011/02/26 · 16:36

Today I met a couple of hundred friends at the Statehouse grounds in Columbus, yelling "Kill the Bill" and "This is what democracy looks like". I'm going to throw a bunch of photos at you all so you can get a feeling for the event.

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A heathen's prayer for democracy

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 1:00 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 01:00

Well, that’s all the sleep I’m going to get tonight. Despite being worried enough about oversleeping to have set two alarm clocks and the cell phone for four am klaxons, I’ve "got the big eye", as my dad says. Since it’s too soon to go open my precinct here in Ohio, I thought it might be time to just give a shout out to the folks who brought us to this amazing precipice of history, and to the good folks who have grabbed us by the collective shirt tails to pull us back to a safe place again.

As we stand on the crumbling cliff that is our democracy, I wonder truly how we ever got here at all. We had help getting here, that’s for sure, so let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we?

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 11:56 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 11:56

On a dark dreary day last October, we first heard the grim news. Bill in Portland Maine was going to be forced to do the sensible thing, to stop entertaining tens of thousands of antsy political junkies while he found a new job. Well, we just couldn't have that!!! The hordes of kossacks that make up the wackiest political family on the net sprang into action, with an online telethon to make Bill our first professional snark laureate. We need your help to keep the fresh, pre-moistened, snark flowing. More on the flip...

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Sunday September 28, 2008 · 7:59 AM PDT

2008/09/28 · 07:59

Some of you are probably sitting home this morning watching John McCain on "This Week". Stephanopolous and McCain are sitting at the Newseum doing a pretty straighforward interview. So what's wrong with this picture? I know! They're supposed to be sitting on the stage of the Great Southern Theater in Columbus, Ohio doing this show in front of a Town Hall. Except it got cancelled yesterday and nobody bothered to tell the audience.

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How stupid was ditching the swing voters at town hall?

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How stupid was ditching the swing voters at town hall?

Brick dumb

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Stone stupid

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Brick dumb and stone stupid

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Dublin OH: Obama-Biden Rally pictures

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 8:43 AM PDT

2008/08/31 · 08:43

Last night, I was lucky enough to score front row, standing room only seats for the rally at Dublin Coffman High School in suburban Columbus. For the last part of the evening, I was pretty busy having a heat stroke, but I still managed to score a couple of decent photos. I also met a couple of Kossacks and lurkers, who shall remain nameless.

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Wednesday November 07, 2007 · 11:47 AM PST

2007/11/07 · 11:47

I was just skimming through diaries to see what happened whilst (I do so love that word) I was off preserving democracy at the polls yesterday. Please know that my thoughts are with you, and Psycho Sally. Hopefully, you will not have to wear the Elizabethan dog-collar during your own treatment. Thanks to your profound diary, my thoughts are also with Nancy Pelosi and the leadership today.

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 6:31 AM PDT

2007/08/01 · 06:31

Welcome to today's edition of Cheers & Jeers, coming to you from the beeyoootiful state of Ohio. I'm your hostess, histopresto, and I will be pinch-hitting today for the real Cheers & Jeers, since Bill in Portland Maine has abandoned us all to live in Key West with a really buff cabana boy who owns a kennel full of chocolate labs and has his own rum factory...oh wait, was I not supposed to mention that yet? Dammit!

Today's bootleg edition of Cheers and Jeers starts after the jump!

THWOCK!

[Sorry kids, but they took the official C & J gong to Chicago to open Friday's roundtable sessions. I had to smack a butter knife against the monitor instead.]

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So, I'm curious, just how many pairs of shoes DO you have?

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1-5

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6-10

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11-20

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21-40

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41-60

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61-100

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101-150

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151-200

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Way more than that!

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I don't wear shoes

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My shoes were all stolen by wolves

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Election Official Confidential: a scoop from Ohio

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 9:15 AM PDT

2006/10/16 · 09:15

After mobilizing in 2004 as an official (frustrated) observer for the Democratic Party, I decided that this time around, I would become a Precinct Election Official. That way, I could help ensure that voters got to cast a regular ballot, instead of being virtually disenfranchised into the hell of provisional ballots. This weekend, I attended the mandatory training session and ooohhh doggies, did I get an earful from the trainers. How did I miss hearing about how badly the May primary election went off the rails? Oh yeah, because it was never publicized.
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A Day at the Ballpark

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 11:23 AM PDT

2006/07/24 · 11:23

You know, sitting outside is not one of my favorite things. Well, not unless it's a clear summer day and there are cool drinks involved- and maybe a nice breeze. Oh, and some of those really poofy white clouds, the ones that just seem to tumble across the sky as they hurry by to brighten somebody's vacation. But when you add a sunny afternoon to a well-mowed stretch of grass and a couple of baseball teams- well, that comes out to a beeyootiful day at the ballpark.
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Bootleg Cheers & Jeers: Humpday Edition

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 6:11 AM PDT

2006/06/28 · 06:11

Welcome to today's edition of Cheers & Jeers, coming to you from the beeyoootiful state of Ohio. I'm your hostess, histopresto, and I will be pinch-hitting today for the real Cheers & Jeers, since Bill in Portland Maine is stuck out of town doing some kind of worky-type stuff.

Bootleg Cheers and Jeers is coming your way...right now!... I said, now! ....
[Alright, who took the gong? Has anybody seen the fricking gong!? I can't do this without the god--- oh, hell! We'll just do the Norman Lear thing today...]
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Cheers & Jeers: Wednesday Pinch-hitter

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 6:17 AM PST

2006/03/08 · 06:17

Welcome to today's substitute edition of Cheers & Jeers, coming to you from the beeyoootiful state of Ohio. I'm your hostess, histopresto, and I will be pinch-hitting today's bootleg C & J, since Bill in Portland Maine is off enjoying his vacation in Florida.

Today's Cheers & Jeers is sponsored by our friends at the Key West Visitor's Bureau! They are actively seeking information that would lead to the arrest of the person or persons unknown who painted their historic lighthouse some weird-ass shade of orange over the weekend, which we know absolutely nothing about- right? Right!!!

Cheers and Jeers is coming your way...right now! [GONG-GONG-GONG--- oh dammit, I broke the gong again!!---GONG-GONG-GONG--- Has anybody got a wrench?---GONG-GONG-GONG--- Cosmic, I said wrench, not wench!---GONG-GOnnkkkxxxzz---There, all fixed!] <Swoosh!>
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Campaign Diaries: We need some ground rules.

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Monday February 06, 2006 · 4:31 PM PST

2006/02/06 · 16:31

Okay- say I wanted to play a really twisted joke on the Kos community and decided to create an online persona for a new progressive candidate. To set this up, I register under the name of a lesser known democratic candidate in a race nobody has paid much attention to here. I register the identity, set up a feel-good website at some bloghost for the candidate, then write an earnest little plea for support and volunteers. Next, I post my very own "new candidate diary" on Dailykos with a nice little Paypal link to contribute to my campaign. Read More

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