NH: Edwards' vision for Democratic Party
Sat Feb 05, 2005 at 07:55:03 PM PDT
Knight Ridder :
Bill Clinton's "triangulation" or "third way" between liberals and conservatives dominated the Democratic Party for the past decade. Edwards, however, wants to steer Democrats away from policy nuances and targeting segments of the public - advocating
core beliefs instead of chasing NASCAR dads.
"It's in contrast with people who believe the way the Democratic Party should go in the future is engage in some kind of strategic maneuvering," he said. "I just think that's dead wrong."
C-SPAN carried Edwards speech in New Hampshire this evening live at 8:00 pm EST. It will be rebroadcast later this evening at 11:15 pm EST (C-SPAN schedule is subject to change).
Schwarzenegger PUC Kills Wireless Consumer Bill Of Rights
Sun Jan 30, 2005 at 01:58:48 PM PDT
Schwarzenegger-appointed commissioners (not yet confirmed!) on the California's PUC have killed the 8-month old CA Telecom Consumer Bill of Rights, after five years of effort by consumer advocates,
telephonyonline.com :
Upon its approval last year, the Telecommunications Consumer Bill of Rights was widely viewed as the
toughest statewide wireless phone regulations in the U.S. Its creation was prompted by consumer complaints alleging false advertising and
confusing billing practices, which the bill attempted to combat with a provision granting dissatisfied subscribers the right to cancel their contracts without penalty within the first 30 days of service. The regulations also mandated clearer
explanations of all rates, taxes and fees; listing contract terms in
easy-to-read 10-point type; and more assistance for non-English speaking customers.
... The CPUC's decision also generated objections from state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and all 58 of California's district attorneys, who claim that wireless-based consumer complaints are diverting their time and energy from other law enforcement issues.
NYC: WTC/Chambers Subway Fire Now 'Suspicious'
Wed Jan 26, 2005 at 09:28:39 PM PDT
Underground, Both Security and Logic Fail :
... police and fire officials ...
backed away yesterday from an earlier theory put forth by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that a homeless person had started the blaze to stay warm.
Fire Department spokesman, Michael R. Loughran, agreed that it was too early to draw conclusions. "Fire marshals are continuing to investigate who or what caused this suspicious fire," he said.
Metro Matters :
this fire, still under police investigation, has been ruled suspicious; police and fire officials now say it was set, though not necessarily by a homeless person, which was the initial theory.
Previous diaries: Mon, Tue. History of 8th Avenue Chambers St. / World Trade Center Station.
Media coverage neglects to mention the proximity of the fire to Ground Zero / former World Trade Center site.
Update [2005-1-27 1:10:12 by dotpeople]: Details of remediation.
NYC Subway Fire: 580,000 affected for next 3 years
Mon Jan 24, 2005 at 11:34:00 PM PDT
This is a wakeup call on Homeland Security funding for NYC. First reported yesterday by BTF in
NYC loses a subway line. NYT has updated with more
details of the damage:
- C Local line is gone for 3-5 years
- A Express line runs local at 1/3 capacity (up to 18min wait vs normal 6min max wait)
- 1/9 and 2/3 will be crowded by overflow from A/C
- cost: "several millions of dollars and several years"
- only two companies in the world can repair the signals: one in Pittsburgh, the other in Paris.
Dozens of signal relay rooms like the one destroyed on Sunday are scattered throughout the 722-mile subway system, and it is impossible to fireproof them
If the NYC subway signal rooms were not previously an Al Qaeda target, they are now (global vulnerability publication). It is time for the Dept. of Homeland Security to step up to the plate. NYC can't handle the loss of additional subway lines.
The only evidence of the perpetrator is a shopping cart and wood remnants.
Update [2005-1-25 3:59:5 by dotpeople]: Photo added after break.
Arnold vs. Bill?
Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 12:24:32 PM PDT
Via
Political Wire, from USnews
Washington Whispers :
Here's the long shot of the year: Congressional Democrats will OK a constitutional amendment allowing naturalized citizens like California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president if Republicans help kill the 22nd Amendment barring third terms, thus clearing the way for another bid by Bill Clinton and, presumably, President Bush. Right now it's the talk among political strategists, but look for it to spread on Capitol Hill when Sen. Orrin Hatch reintroduces his plan to let naturalized citizens run for president after 20 years.
What did Cahill know about Mehlman?
Mon Jan 17, 2005 at 10:20:15 AM PDT
Update [2005-1-17 18:25:14 by dotpeople]: (make clearer point, per Feanor)
Ken Mehlman, chair of the successful Bush-Cheney campaign, has been chosen by President Bush to be the next RNC chairman. Ken's brother is a partner in a Washington lobbying firm with "tort reform" on its paid agenda.
Mary-Beth Cahill, the chair of the Kerry-Edwards campaign, hired her sister and brother-in-law to work on the Kerry campaign. David Castagnetti has just joined Ken Mehlman's brother as the newest partner of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti.
The defection of David and Ann Castagnetti sends a loud and public message that even the closest Kerry insiders can sell Democratic Party ties and knowledge to Republican interests. Why should Democrats in less inner circles even try to stand strong?
Did Cahill know a defection was planned when the Castagnettis were welcomed to the campaign? We hope not. When the Mehlman defection was proposed, why didn't Cahill stop it? If she could not prevent the defection of her own sister, what else did she fail to control?
FireFox Extension for DailyKos
Fri Jan 14, 2005 at 02:30:12 PM PDT
Six months after the initial release in
May 2004, an updated version is available at
rpxp.mozdev.org.
Many thanks to all who gave feedback and reported bugs.
New Features
- Additional color (green) added for tagging your own user name(s).
- Support for FireFox automated updates.
Bug Fixes
- Block quotes (select + right click) now work with long excerpts.
- Colors no longer apply to offsite links (e.g. blogroll names that are the same as member names).
Samples after the break.
Steve "The Hammer" Jarding on Family Values
Mon Jan 03, 2005 at 07:20:38 AM PDT
On 12/3/04, Larry Sabato hosted a centrist panel discussion at U of VA featuring Donna Brazile, Jim Jordan (Kerry 2003 campaign manager and ACT), Steve Jarding (Mark Warner's campaign manager and John Edwards' New American Optimists PAC), Harrison Hickman (Democratic pollster, Edwards 2004 primary campaign) and Rep. Brad Carson of OK.
The most informative answers came from Steve Jarding, this was the first time I've heard him speak. In particular, his closing response brought the house, er hotel room, down. It was a comment on the suggestion that maybe Democrats should rhetorically withdraw and let the Republicans pursue their agenda into excess. Text and video of Jarding's 2 minute answer follow the break.
NC: John Edwards on C-SPAN1 at 6:30p, 12:30a EST
Sun Dec 05, 2004 at 03:16:04 PM PDT
C-SPAN is airing a Town Hall meeting from Edwards' Senate farewell tour of North Carolina,
link:
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Senator John Edwards spoke at a town hall meeting he held in Greenville, North Carolina. The event was part of a two-day series of town hall meetings in North Carolina held by Senator Edwards before he leaves office in January.
Live C-SPAN stream: RealPlayer | Windows Media
Email from Edwards Senate office follows the break.
Update [2004-12-5 18:27:44 by dotpeople]: News & Observer 12/1 story from sixmoreweeks on Open Thread
Never Mind
Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 07:15:34 AM PDT
What is wrong with this picture?
| Abs. Kerry | Abs. Bush | Abs. Total | Absentee Margin |
| 58% | 42% | 91039
| +16 points |
| Early Kerry | Early Bush | Early Total | Early Voting Margin |
| 72% | 28% | 49365 | +43 points |
| Election Day Kerry | Election Day Bush | Election Day Total | Election Day Margin |
| 40% | 60% | 404666 | -20 points |
Excuse Me? What happened on Election Day? Is this phenomenon specific to Palm Beach County or was it replicated in other Florida counties?
Palm Beach Excel Spreadsheet
Note that Broward and Miami-Dade counties do not provide their election results in CSV/Excel format, but in gigantic tables that make it nearly impossible to do this analysis. Why would that be?
Update [2004-11-11 10:26:38 by dotpeople]: 60-40 = 20. My Bad. Got mixed up when cutting and pasting the previous table row. Deepest apologies.
Update [2004-11-11 10:31:47 by dotpeople]: Egg on Face. I transposed the two numbers. I can't believe it. Full responsibility mine. I can only point at my previous two diaries where I made no such mistake.
FL: Pasco County 45% Early Voting & Absentee
Tue Nov 09, 2004 at 07:19:25 PM PDT
Update [2004-11-9 23:19:29 by dotpeople]: 35,000 absentee ballots showed up in Pasco County on Nov 1st and 2nd, bringing the total pre-election turnout (early voting + absentee) to at least
45%. A total of 88,000 votes are reported as being cast before election day, out of a total 192,000 votes. A Gallup poll of FL early voters showed Kerry leading Bush. Yet Pasco's 88,000 early voters are reported as voting almost exactly the same as election day voters.
2004 was the first presidential election in which Floridians had the option of early voting and by news accounts, many people took advantage of the option.
Questions follow the break.
ALERT: Palm Beach County: 87546 extra votes!
Sun Nov 07, 2004 at 02:12:52 PM PDT
From CNN.COM:
Voted KE04: 325808
Voted BC04: 210580
Other: 3219
Alleged Palm Beach Votes = 539607 (from CNN site)
Official Palm Beach Turnout = 452061 (from Florida site )
"Extra" votes = 87546 !!
[ promoted to diary from hacked extra-vote thread of Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked ]
Charts for 4 counties after the break ...
Update [2004-11-7 17:59:45 by dotpeople]:: Palm Beach County revised their results to add 90,000 absentee ballots. The size of the correction makes this a decoy, but eliminating decoys is a necessary step in any meaningful audit.
Update [2004-11-7 19:16:20 by dotpeople]:
After the numbers were revised by Palm Beach county officials, 90,000 absentee ballots were added, but only 1,543 presidential votes were added. Absentee turnout went from 7% to 19% of total turnout, but this change is reported as having negligible effect on presidential votes.
Is it reasonable that 88,000 Palm Beach County absentee ballots cast no vote for president?
Original PCB results
, Revised PCB results.
Stanford, CA: Voter Registration Fraud
Mon Oct 25, 2004 at 09:22:16 PM PDT
Posting on behalf of
incertus due to
technical difficulties with diary posting:
--- begin text of incertus posting ---
Voter Registration Fraud at Stanford
I am forwarding an email from Rachel Kadish, a visiting writer at Stanford this quarter, forwarded to the entire Creative Writing Program.
[dotpeople: full text after the break - describes discarded Democratic votes and instructions on taking a "Compel to Vote" form to San Jose judge for help ]
Edwards slams "lies", will speak after debate-watching rally in OH
Mon Sep 27, 2004 at 07:48:06 PM PDT
CNN Headline News has been running this video clip, here reported by
ABC [and earlier
diary]:
John Edwards accused President Bush's re-election campaign of lying in television ads about John Kerry's Vietnam War service and his plan to reform health care.
"They will absolutely lie about anything," the Democratic vice presidential candidate said Monday at a rally in Victory Park
AP reports that Edwards will speak after a debate-watching rally in downtown Columbus, OH on Thursday evening.
Photos: Kicker-In-Chief
Sun Sep 26, 2004 at 08:34:01 PM PDT
Fourteen photos from the past week of campaigning.
Divided We Fall
Wed Sep 01, 2004 at 02:56:55 AM PDT
In response to this
comment from this
diary:
dKos has been split into three communities, in order of decreasing visibility:
1) Recommended Diaries
2) Front Page Stories
3) Recent Diaries
The damage to the site is much greater than the damage to Recent Diaries.
(cont'd)
