It's a linky sort of day, and apparently I've exhausted many of the links I had on tap in the previous two posts (meta and CT-Sen).
Fair warning, this week is the end of the fundraising period, so I'll be focused a great deal on some of the top races we should be focused on. And yes, some of them aren't even in Connecticut!
- WSJ hit-piece on Gore's movie debunked by Think Progress.
- The guy who did the Willie Horton ad for Bush Sr. is helping Michael Steele in Maryland.
It seemed a most unusual choice for Steele, the first African American elected to statewide office in Maryland and a Republican whose strategy for winning a Senate seat in a state dominated by Democrats has involved the aggressive courtship of black voters.
"Why would he go for money to those who have done us harm?" asked Elbridge James, a former leader of the NAACP's Montgomery County branch.
- I used to say that my biggest failure as a community builder was that Daily Kos hadn't gotten people hitched. Well, that's longer a problem. Leftcoast and RedMeatDem got married a few months ago. It was a huge treat seeing them in Vegas and hearing the great news since I was at the meetup in which they both first met.
- The Bush Administration trains its guns on the NY Times.
- The Tour de France begins on July 1, and this tour threatens to be the most exciting since Lance made the race about second place. A good preview of the course can be found here. If you're into cycling (or want to get into it), it's hard to go wrong with Podium Cafe, the cylcing site in my SB Nation network of sports blogs.