MI and FL delegates: '72 McGovern precedent

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 · 8:04 AM PST

2008/02/12 · 08:04

There’s been much conjecture about what’s going to happen with those Michigan and Florida delegates at the Convention if the race remains this close. Since this election dominates my everyday discourse and thought, I’ve been researching the finer details of the contest including the MI and FL situation. Specifically, I wanted to know if there was a precedent that could clue me in as to what could happen at the Convention.

There are many past examples of delegates being challenged, but the ’72 California delegate situation is probably most relevant to our ’08 quandary. Much of the following information was gleaned from an old old Time magazine article and a book by fellow Brooklynite Joe Califano, a lawyer who worked for three Democratic administrations.

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Thursday November 16, 2006 · 11:43 AM PST

2006/11/16 · 11:43

As the world debates who should get the most credit for our big win last Tuesday - Rahmbo, Schumer, Dean, George W. Bush - there's one regular joe that had something to do with the victory and he's all but been forgotten. The cruel pop culture funnel will lump him in with the likes of Fawn Hall and Jessica Hahn, and if he's remembered at all, it will be in punch lines. But he deserves way better. His name is Mike Jones. And he could use some cash.

More after the jump.
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gift for Angry Mom: The Case For Impeachment

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 12:29 PM PDT

2006/05/12 · 12:29

I know the impeachment issue has been debated on this site to the hilt, but I wanted to bring your attention to a recent book that frames the argument for impeachment quite nicely.

The Case For Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office

Good Mama's day present? For the Mom that's starting to realize that accountability for these criminals would be a wonderful gift. Read More

My Bob Casey Jr. fundraising dilemna

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Monday May 08, 2006 · 10:02 AM PDT

2006/05/08 · 10:02

I held a fundraising event for Kerry on the night of his convention speech in 2004 and it went really well. I would like to do something similar for 2006, and for a while I thought an anti-Santorum fundraiser would be perfect. My gay brothers and sisters, even the non-political ones, despise him due to his inane comparison of homosexuality to beastiality, and also due to Dan Savage's brilliance. There's a gay bar near my Brooklyn, NY apartment where I would hold the event. It fits about 150 people and I know I can pack it and raise $1000 based on Santorum hate alone. Easy money for his opponent, Bob Casey Jr.

But then I started reading about Casey's faults on atrios, and researching his positions on issues. Oy. Read More

laptop addiction

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Saturday April 15, 2006 · 8:59 AM PDT

2006/04/15 · 08:59

It is now common for me to sit on the toilet with my laptop on my bare legs.

I used to have Tivo and watch about 20 hours of television, including several hours of shows like Match Game (yay, Brett), Golden Girls, Food Network and football. Now I'm down to one hour of Amazing Race, one hour of Top Chef, and the occasional Olbermann or Daily Show. Actually, I started downloading episodes of Top Chef from google last week.

I used to talk on the phone when I got lonely or bored. Now I IM. I used to read the paper: now it's dailykos or hullabaloo or atrios or msnbc.com. I used to read a book a week. Now maybe it's every other week (and that's pathetic because I work in publishing); now i read blogs. I now know the details of my friend's cousin's trip to Europe without ever speaking with her or sitting through a slide show. Read More

Why the Times finally published the Spygate story

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 1:35 PM PST

2005/12/21 · 13:35

There's been much conjecture as to why the Times held the Spygate story for a year and decided to publish it now. Freepers say the story was timed to sway public support against the Patriot Act so it wouldn't be renewed. Yeah, right. Bill Keller says he was finally "convinced there was no good reason not to publish it". Yeah, right.

The real reason that the Times published the story is that a book by a journalist employed there that reveals the same information is going to be on sale 1/16.

An article in yesterday's L.A. Times reveals this. Read More

New book coming in March - The Case For Impeachment

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Monday November 07, 2005 · 9:53 AM PST

2005/11/07 · 09:53

As we struggle to start a discussion about impeachement in the media and across the country, following is information about a promising new book making the case for impeachment coming out from a publisher I work for. Got excited when I found out about it this morning.

Title: The Case for Impeachment: How to Get Rid of President George W. Bush

Authors: DAVID LINDORFF, journalist for three decades (The Nation, BusinessWeek, Salon) and author of the book This Can't Be Happening: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy. BARBARA OLSHANSKY, the Director Counsel for The Center for Constitutional Rights who is currently managing habeas litigation on behalf of 300 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, who has also published Joe Conason's Big Lies and Truth and Duty by ousted 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes. Read More

Kerry considering "unconceding"?

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 · 9:14 AM PST

2004/11/10 · 09:14

OK - take this with many grains of salt, like everything we've heard concerning election fraud during the past week. I recieved the following through an email from a yahoo group called Democratic America, which existed to form a "Drinking Liberally"-type group (to which I've never been).

Bev Harris and Ralph Nader just also announced on Air America that they're requesting a recount in certain Ohio counties.

The next couple of weeks could get really crazy. Read More

expatriates helping us out

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Friday October 22, 2004 · 11:20 AM PDT

2004/10/22 · 11:20

Yahoo article - "U.S. Expat Voters Out in Record Numbers in Germany"

Times UK article - "Americans abroad flock to vote in cliffhanger election"

Not only have American Democrats been GOTV in full force; seems our brothers and sisters abroad are also. According to the Times article, expats usually vote Republican 3 to 1, but Democrats Abroad in London, an arm of the Democratic Party, has registered 200,000 expats since the last election and is overwhelmed with new registration requests.
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Let's rerun the debates.

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Tuesday October 19, 2004 · 11:19 AM PDT

2004/10/19 · 11:19

What if a major national television station re-aired each debate a week before the election and publicized it? What if it ran opposite the Sinclair broadcast?

One can dream. It would be beneficial for the following reasons:

less spin! People wouldn't be on the edge of their seats waiting for Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough to declare who won. It would be a relatively clean look at the candidates again, for the benefit of the still-undecided.
of course, Kerry did measurably better than Bush and we would win new voters.
whatever network aired it would probably score in the ratings. These were the most watched debates in recent history, right? I bet ratings for the reruns would be better than most normal programming and I don't see why they couldn't run commercials this time around. It might be better for the debates to be broken up, to give the audience a breather.
knowing millions of people were watching Bush's 1st debate performance might cause Rove to lose a bit more sleep.

This is why we need the television equivalent of Air America. But maybe CSPAN could run it and we (Kerry supporters across the nation) could publicize it and convince our undecided/Libertarian/unmotivated-to-vote friends and acquaintances to watch.

Eh, just an idea that probably could never happen, but if Sinclair is going to air that bile, maybe a network would step up to the plate and counter-program biased programming with unbiased programming? I think it would work as a publicity stunt.

If there are networks that show Dharma and Greg reruns every day, why not rerun the most important broadcasts of the year just once?

60 minutes postponed Niger document piece

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Thursday September 23, 2004 · 4:57 AM PDT

2004/09/23 · 04:57

Will anybody take this seriously?

In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush's National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same "60 Minutes" broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger.

A team of "60 Minutes" correspondents and consulting reporters spent more than six months investigating the Niger uranium documents fraud, CBS sources tell NEWSWEEK. The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents, as well as her elusive source, Rocco Martino, a mysterious Roman businessman with longstanding ties to European intelligence agencies.

Wonder who made the decision to pull it hours before it aired? It makes their debacle even more embarassing. Every hack pundit will question their credibility, and it's shameful that they dumped this for the Guard records mess, but I hope they still air it soon.

Overseas Voters Shut Out

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Tuesday September 21, 2004 · 9:22 AM PDT

2004/09/21 · 09:22

This smells fishy. But maybe I'm just paranoid.

Americans abroad, whose votes could be crucial if the Nov. 2 presidential election proves close, are being denied access to a U.S. Department of Defense Web site designed to make it easier for them to cast absentee ballots.

The problem concerns blocks placed on access to the Web site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, a Defense Department division to help expatriate American voters, including servicemen and women. The site's address is www.fvap.gov.

In an e-mail, a site Web manager, Susan Leader, said access is being refused to some Internet service providers that were used by hackers to attack U.S. government sites.

Here's the link: Yahoo News story about overseas voters

Seems really easy to set up a safe site just for downloading a form. And if someone wanted to hack, I'm sure they could find one of the ISPs that our government does allow in 5 minutes. This makes no sense.

Great that the Democratic Party set up a site to counteract our government's negligence.

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