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If We're Not Doing Social Justice, We're Not the Democratic Party

August 15, 2008 by BlueGrassRoots

Get the wooden stake, quick:  the Democratic Leadership Council "Let's Be More Like Republicans!" ghoul is trying to rise from the dead.

A big reason that the Democrats won back Congress in 2006 and are likely to keep it in 2008 is nominating and electing socially conservative economic populists like Heath Shuler. More progress. But to create an updated version of the New Deal, the Democrats have to treat economically liberal social conservatives as equal partners, with their own spokesmen and leadership roles in the party, not just as a handful of swing voters brought on reluctantly at the last moment.

You know what a "socially conservative economic populist" is?  It's a sex-hating Comstockian who makes you pay for the privilege of being black, female or gay in their white, straight male paradise.  Heath Shuler?  Make that "their white, straight, STUPID male paradise."

(More after the jump.)

OH-16: Schuring expands his attacks against Boccieri over things that never happened

August 7, 2008 by buckeyestateblog

Either Kurt Schuring has bad sources or he, his campaign, and his surrogates are just pathological liars.

Either way, I'm convinced that Schuring isn't fit to serve if this is how he runs his campaign.  For the second day in the row, the Schuring campaign and its surrogates have attacked John Boccieri for doing something he didn't do... This time, it's attending a fundraiser in NYC... while Boccieri was campaigning in Canton.

Schuring's lies have gotten so out of hand, the Boccieri campaign has had to issue this press release:

Today, candidate for U.S. Congress John Boccieri (OH-16) called on opponent Kirk Schuring to issue an immediate public apology for reporting completely false information about Senator Boccieri to the press, and to start talking about the issues that matter to the people of the 16th District instead of Washington-style politics.

In a press release issued on August 7 entitled "Boccieri Attends New York Fundraiser," the Schuring campaign stated that Boccieri "attended a fundraiser in New York City Wednesday night." Schuring attempted to attack Boccieri for traveling to New York while Schuring was in Ohio.

Hip Hop Political Convention PART II

August 3, 2008 by Future Majority

Bumped. This is great reporting on the conference and raises lots of question. --Mike

The big question of this conference, at least out of the personal dialogue generated amongst attendees, seems to be asking if the upcoming election will actually change anything drastic in this country. Over lunch yesterday, myself and members from GenVote and Ruckus Society spoke of this. How much of a say do we actually have in this country when the only presidents who ever have a chance of winning are Republican or Democrat? We spoke of what little difference there actually is between these two parties, and we spoke of how all of us didn’t believe in nor support the corporate agenda of both parties.

And what does this mean in the context of the Hip Hop Political Convention, in which we are encouraging young people, particularly the hip hop community, to vote in this upcoming presidential election?

At Genvote’s voter registration workshop yesterday, absolutely no one showed up. Upon first examination, this either means that everyone attending this conference is a registered voter, or that folks who are not registered were not inspired to at this convention.

Another GOP Senator blows off convention

July 29, 2008 by admin

Is the nomination of John McCain for President that toxic an event for GOP Senators? Last week we noted that Stevens and Collins were skipping St. Paul. And now another one is now citing "scheduling conflicts":

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina won't be attending the Republican national convention, which begins over Labor Day weekend.
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"She's got a busy week scheduled in North Carolina," Hallaway said. "When there are breaks in the Senate schedule, she spends as much time as possible in North Carolina."
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Her absence from the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., is a notable one. Dole is a bona-fide GOP rock star, the type of speaker who could rally the faithful at the daily state delegation breakfasts.

Did Sand Forget to Put Fuel In His Plane?

July 3, 2008 by NorthDecoder

It looks like Duane Sand, a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, forgot to fill his airplane with fuel before taking off on a flight across North Dakota last month.Republican Congressional candidate Duane Sand said an icy carburetor likely caused the crash of the airplane he was piloting last month.Sand told WDAY-AM radio that he was en route from Bismarck, N.D., to Lisbon when his single-engine Cessna tumbled into a LaMoure County cornfield.Fargo Forum (http://www.in-forum.com/articles/rss.cfm?id=206936 freebie_check CFID=52916813 CFTOKEN=21547189 jsessionid=8830ce54b3fe2358d106) When I was in college, one of my best friends was a private pilot. (He now flies for American Airlines -- Hey Johnny!!! -- and is based out of New York City.) While in college, John and...