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Email /Webpage /Facebook /Twitter /Newsletetter archive | | Organizing for America : Final March for Reform is going strong | | 
| The Final March for Reform is going strong -- yesterday, OFA supporters made the phones ring off the hook in Congressional offices on Capitol Hill and across the country. But for every member of Congress, there are eight anti-reform lobbyists swarming Capitol Hill -- and the upcoming vote is still too close to call.
So in these crucial, final days, we must make sure the voices of constituents break through the lobbyist attacks. And here's the plan to make it happen:
As the next step in the Final March for Reform, OFA supporters like you will be gathering at volunteer phone banks across the country. We'll be calling supportive voters in critical districts nationwide, asking them to reach out to their representatives and express their strong support for reform. A local OFA organizer will be on hand at every event, and no experience is required.
Here's how to join in: First, RSVP for an event near you -- there's one in Dallas, on March 17th. Before you go, make sure to invite friends to come with you, or help them find an event in their area on our website. Then join with local supporters at your event and reach out to as many voters as you can -- each call makes a vital difference.
RSVP here to get started. Here are the details for the event nearest you:What: Final March for Reform Phone Bank
Where: 4312 McKinney Ave. #16 Dallas, TX 75205
When: Wednesday, March 17th 7:00 PM
In Plano
Monday, March 15th
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
DPCC Headquarters /2504 K Ave., Ste. 200 /Plano 75074
(NE corner of Park and K Ave., Behind the Shell gas station, 2 lights east of N. Central Expressway) | | Democracy Now | |  105,000 Tattoos: Iraqi Artist Wafaa Bilal Turns His Own Body into a Canvas to Commemorate Dead Iraqis & Americans
The official death toll from the war is 100,000, but it is widely estimated to be much higher, perhaps even as high as one million. In his latest piece of artwork, Iraqi American artist Wafaa Bilal tries to grapple with the enormity of these numbers. It's a twenty-four-hour live tattooing performance called "..and Counting" that began at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts gallery in New York Monday night. By tonight Bilal's back will be tattooed with the names of Iraqi cities, 5,000 red dots representing dead American soldiers and 100,000 dots in invisible ink representing the official death toll for Iraqis. The dots representing the Iraqi death toll will only be visible under ultraviolet light.
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich Takes on Democratic Leaders with Insistence on Public Option, Call for Afghan Withdrawal
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins us to discuss two House debates in which he's played a central role this week. The Ohio Democrat is threatening to vote against his party's healthcare reform package because it does not contain a robust public option. Meanwhile, Kucinich's bill to force the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan was taken up on Wednesday. After a rare three-and-a-half-hour debate on the war, the majority of House Democrats joined with Republicans to defeat the measure.
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Doris "Granny D" Haddock (1910-2010): Remembering Legendary Campaign Finance Reform Activist
Doris "Granny D" Haddock, one of the leading fighters for campaign finance reform in the United States, died on Tuesday at the age of 100. In 1999, just shy of her ninetieth birthday, Granny D walked 3,200 miles across the country to promote campaign finance reform. She is widely credited for galvanizing the public support that helped pass the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act in 2002. We replay an excerpt of a 2004 interview with Granny D in the midst of her campaign for the US Senate against New Hampshire incumbent Judd Gregg.
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| | Why Obama and Dems Seem Uncapable of Taking a Firm Stand on Anything- Jim Hightower | |
Hightower: Why Obama and Dems Seem Uncapable of Taking a Firm Stand on Anything
The Obama-ites seem incapable of firm stands. They excite us by boldly addressing our economic woes. But when it comes time to follow through -- it's droopsville.
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| | The Breakdown with Chris Hayes : new podcast! |
Click here to listen to our newest feature, The Breakdown with Chris Hayes. In this sample of our new weekly Podcast, Chris and his guest Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute break down the real impact of President Obama's Stimulus Program--the facts you won't find on Fox News.
| | North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | Eating Animals
By Jonathan Safran Foer List Price: $25.99
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.
Jonathan Safran Foer, "Eating Animals" and Frank Bruni, "Born Round" Frank Bruni; Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer explores the policies of factory farming and the politics of vegetarianism. Mr. Foer reports from the field and the dinner table as he looks into the current systems that deliver food from farm to fork. Jonathan Safran Foer is joined in discussion by former New York Times restaurant critic, Frank Bruni, who is the author of Born Round: The Secret History of a Full Time Eater at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York City.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. For more information, visit eatinganimals.com.
Watch here | | "Make Markets Be Markets" conference |
Finance Superstars Talk About the Massive Fraud in Our Economic System
"Make Markets Be Markets" conference of financial reform all-stars offers an alternative to Washington's disastrous oversight of the economy.
Read report and
Learn more here
| | Think Again: Listen Up, Progressives: Talk Radio Matters | By Eric Alterman, Danny Goldberg Did you know that when the White House and members of the media mention "code words like 'diversity' and 'equality'" what they are really proposing is "communist revolution?"
Did you know that Osama bin Laden's remarks about global warming are almost identical to "those of the average, run-of-the-mill leftist, like Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or the entire Democrat Party?" Or that the "global warming scam" is "an effort by the left to destroy capitalist economies?
read on | | Dallas Peace Center : Catch the Bus to the Washington D.C. Immigration Reform Demonstration | | 
| Friday, March 19, 9:00 p.m.
Catch the Bus to the Washington D.C. Immigration Reform Demonstration
Make the trip to be a part of a massive demonstration on Washington D.C. calling for effective and fair immigration reform. There will be a press conference at 9:00 p.m. and the bus will leave for Washington immediately afterward in order to arrive in time for the demonstrations on Capitol Hill which begin at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, 3/21. Meetings with Congressional representatives will begin the following morning, Monday, 3/22. We will return to Dallas early that afternoon and will be home by early afternoon, Tuesday, 3/23. The bus will leave and return to the parking lot at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, 9200 Inwood Rd. at Northwest Highway. The bus ticket is only $50! We need your reservation by Friday, March 12. If you can't go, please make a special donation to this project. Make your check to the Dallas Peace Center, and write in the memo line "Immigration Reform Demonstration." For information, contact Ernest McMillan at 832-368-9023. | | DVD-Day for "Capitalism: A Love Story"Michael Moor on with Rachel and you can chat live with him ! | | 
| DVD-Day for "Capitalism: A Love Story" has finally arrived for all you good folks who just couldn't figure out how to fit in a trip to the movie theater between your three part-time jobs -- or simply weren't able to afford the $10 for the small popcorn at your local rip-off cine-mall when my film was released last fall.
What's with you people?! I make these movies for you to see on a big screen, in the dark, with 200 strangers who want to hoot and holler along with you. Those of you who did see it -- thank you!! You helped to make it the 8th-largest grossing documentary of all time (and, as of Sunday morning, "Capitalism" had sold more tickets than Best Picture winner, "The Hurt Locker").
But for those of you who didn't get to the theater, what's your excuse? Didn't want to sit through 20 minutes of TV ads up on the screen before the movie started? Don't like sitting next to people who have 6 important cell calls to make during the film? Feet get stuck to the floor after two hours of people spilling their 164 oz. sodas, thus preventing you from getting up when the film's over? Jeez, what babies!
Well, starting today, you can now OWN your very own DVD (or Blu-ray) copy of my latest action/romance/horror film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" -- and watch it in the comfort of your soon-to-be-foreclosed home! Get it cheap at Amazon
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Live Chat with Michael Moore Tuesday, March 16th
Our friends at BNF asked us to invite you to an exclusive online video chat with Michael Moore as part of the DVD and Blue-ray release of Capitalism: A Love Story. The thirty minute session will take place on Tuesday, March 16th at 3:00 pm EST at the Brave New Films site. Brave New Films' Robert Greenwald will be fielding questions. You can also start today by submitting your questions in advance. And, as a special offer to EmailNation subscribers, for a limited time, you can receive a special $5 discount on purchases of the Capitalism: A Love Story DVD or Blue Ray.
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Michael Moore Joins Rachel Maddow
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HEB Democrats Meeting Tuesday, March 16th
Please join us this coming Tuesday 7:00PM at the Pizza Garden, 217 Harwood Road, Bedford 76021. Click here for map
Guest Speakers: Nancy Welton, Hurst City Councilwoman
and Neil Durrance, Democratic Candidate for Congress TX-26
Pizza Garden has a good salad/pizza/dessert buffet for $3.99. Please come early to eat; the meeting will start at 7:00PM.
A lot of precincts in Hurst-Euless-Bedford are in TX-26. We will have a map of the area at the meeting, so you can see if you live in Neil's target area. Please come hear about Neil's plans for his campaign this coming year and see what you can do to help him
Mid-Cities Democrats Meeting Thursday, March 25th
When: 7:00PM Thursday, March 25, 2010
Where: Cornejo's Mexican Restaurant
3314 Harwood Road (in the Tom Thumb shopping center)
Bedford TX 76021
Cornejo's is offering an enchilada/taco/quesadilla buffet including tea or soft drink for the special price of $10.00. Marguaritas/beer/wine for $3.00. | | Local Progressive Book Clubs | Progressive Book Club Colleyville-Grapevine
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Don't forget to check your library or favorite book store for our first selection of the CGS progressive book club: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet. We welcome all participants -- if you'd like your name added to an email distribution list for notices, please email me at merasuph.jr@verizon.net. Our goal was to read the book during March and have our first discussion around the first week of April. I welcome your suggestions for future selections.
The Collin County Progressive Book Club
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Reading the " The Bottom Billion "
When Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:00 PM
Where Robin's house
Rainhurst Murphy TX 75094
Meetup http://bookclub.meetup.com/516/
Rock wall Democrats OnTheSamePage Book Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our bookclub will be meeting in March to discuss our current book selection, "Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Rights to Marry" by Evan Wolfson as well as to plan the books for the remainder of the year. Please check back for more information on meeting times/locations. http://www.rockwalldems.com/
| | Join Al Gore tonight | Can you join me this Monday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time, for an urgent conversation about passing strong clean energy and climate legislation in 2010?
A bipartisan group of Senators is close to announcing a bill that may be our best hope for kickstarting a clean energy revolution and beginning to solve the climate crisis -- but big oil, big coal and their allies in Congress are kicking into high gear to strip it of any meaning or power.
That's why I'm hosting a live strategy conference call on Monday just for Repower America supporters. You are critical to this fight, so I hope you will join me as I outline our upcoming efforts to push for strong legislation this year -- and discuss how you can get involved and make a difference.
Join me and your fellow Repower America supporters this Monday at 7:30 pm ET -- RSVP right now.
http://www.repoweramerica.org/ | | Progressive Talk Radio News | |  Senator Franken Helps Sandbag in Moorhead-Video
Minnesota Senator Al Franken Gets his hands dirty while helping watch here
Franken does Google ad for Duluth SEE HERE
Janeane Garofalo is seriously funny
Her former stint as radio co-host of The Majority Report on Air America, a left-leaning radio network that folded this year, cemented her reputation. ...
Read here
Bankruptcy Auction- Air America -( PLEASE some progressive buy this!!!!)
Broadcasting Equipment, Computers, Telecom, Office Furniture & Much More...
see items here : Also up for auction domain name and mailing list Intellectual Property:Company Name: Air America Media, LLC/Domain Name: AirAmerica.com/Company Phone Numbers /E-mail Mailing List Auction Date & Time: Thursday, March 25th at 11:00 am. Inspection: Morning of the Sale Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am. Auction Location: 641 6th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY Terms& Conditions of Sale: 25% Deposit in Cash or Certified Funds Due at Knockdown of Bid. | | I Stand For Peace-Anniversary of the start of the eighth year of war in Iraq | I Stand For Peace-On the anniversary of the start of the eighth year of this misguided war, PJCA will voice our dissatisfaction by holding our 5th "I Stand For Peace" gathering. Join us Friday, March 19 5PM Lincoln Square and Collins St I-30 Overpass (construction status permitting).
- There will be a short nonviolence/confrontation training.
- Your rights and responsibilities.
- Reading of our statement of Intent: I Stand For Peace.
- If we cannot walk to the I-30 overpass, we will stand on the grassy area west side of Collins Street.
- Bring sign/posters to promote peace. A simple poster would be our theme "I Stand For Peace"
Confrontational or negative posters not recommended, please; this is a PRO-PEACE event.
I stand for peace.
I stand for justice.
I stand for equity.
I stand for freedom.
Peace and Justice Center - Arlington [Peace-Center@tx.rr.com]
Antiwar Activists Plan Nationwide Protests to Mark 7th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Antiwar activists are gearing up to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq with a weeklong series of events to protest the ongoing occupation of the country."
Read the Article | | Senate District Conventions | | 
| Dallas County Democrats
Senate Conventions will be held in each of the five Senate Districts that cover Dallas County on Saturday, March 20th. Delegates to these conventions will vote on resolutions passed during the Precinct Conventions, and also elect Delegates and Alternates to attend the State Convention.
The State Convention will be held in Corpus Christi on Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26. At the State Convention the delegates elected to represent their Senate Districts will vote on resolutions and the Texas Democratic Party's platform, elect members to the Senate District Executive Committee, elect a State Chair and other state party officers, and meet other Democratic activists and elected officials from across the State of Texas. (There will also be a number of parties and hospitality suites for fun.)
If you wish to help those preparing your local Senate District Convention, please contact the individuals listed below.
Senate District 2 meets at Teamsters Local 745 Union Hall, 1007 Jonelle Street, Dallas, at 9 AM. Contact Steve Tillery at 214-821-8331 or email to SD2convention AT gmail.com.
Senate District 8 meets at Northaven United Methodist Church, 11211 Preston Rd., Dallas, at 8:30 AM. Contact David Griggs at 214-244-5979 or 214-244-5979 or email to texvol AT aol.com.
Senate District 9 meets at Ruthe Jackson Center, 3113 South Carrier Parkway, Grand Prairie, at 9 AM. Contact Shirley Layton at 817-320-9126 or email to laytsh1 AT gmail.com.
Senate District 16 meets at Thomas Jefferson High School, 4001 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas. Contact either David Bradley at 214-213-1994 or email to dwbradley AT sbcglobal.net; or Teresa Daniel at 214-327-4424 or email to tmdan34 AT aol.com.
Senate District 23 is still awaiting confirmation on their location (likely to be held at a Dallas high school). Contact Lorraine Birabil at 469-212-2542 or email to sd23convention AT gmail.com.
Tarrant County Democrats The 2010 Senate District Conventions will be on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:30 A.M.-4:00 P.M. The March 20, Senate District(SD) Conventions are rapidly approaching. If you would like to get involved in helping to make them a success click here mabranic@sbcglobal.net if you are in SD 9 to email Marvin, here cozzl@earthlink.net if you are in SD 10 to email Linda or here lee@tylnet.com if you are in SD 12 to email Lee. Volunteers Are Needed!!!
from now until the Senate District Conventions we need your help!! with data entry and phone calls. To help with this process the office will be open from 9:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. M-F and 9:30A.M.-4:30P.M. Saturday. If you can help out please let us know. sph@tcdp.net Collin County Democr ats
Democratic Party of Collin County
1715 Avenue K. Ste. 201 · Plano, Texas 75075 · (972) 578-1483
D. Shawn Stevens - County Chair
(214) 537-8959 - cell
(972) 479-0293 - home
WHO: Open to the public, of special interest to Democratic voters
WHAT: 2010 Collin County Democratic Convention
WHEN: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:30 a.m. - c. 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Plano Centre / 2000 E. Spring Creek Parkway
Plano, TX 75074 / (972) 941-5840
SPEAKERS: Local, regional and statewide Democratic candidates, live and via video
Additional speakers on selected topics
COST: No charge for admission or parking Additional costs for concessions, souvenirs
FMI: www.CollinDems.us Democratic Party of Collin County - (972) 578-1483
The Democratic Party of Collin County will hold its 2010 County Convention Saturday, March 20th beginning at 100 a.m. at the Plano Centre in Plano. Representatives from election precincts throughout the county will hear from local and statewide candidates, elect delegates to the Texas Democratic Party's State Convention June 25 - 26 in Corpus Christi, approve resolutions and learn how to help elect Democratic candidates.
Rockwall County Democrat Convention
When: Saturday, March 20, 2010 - Sign-In begins at 10:00 AM
Where: Rockwall High School Cafeteria - 901 Yellow Jacket Lane, Rockwall, TX 75087
What: County Convention!
All Rockwall County Democrats are ecouraged to join us for the 2010 County Convention!
If you did not become a Delegate or Alternate at your Precinct Convention on March 2nd, you may still attend as a non-voting observer.
We have plenty planned for all attendees, including a video message from our 2010 Democratic nominee for Governor, Bill White, so we hope to see you all there!
| | | | | Slush Fun :At least one Texan has benefited from Rick Perry's Enterprise Fund. | | | For the past six years, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has lorded over a controversial stash of taxpayer money known as the Texas Enterprise Fund, dispensing huge sums-$345 million and counting-to large corporations, ostensibly to spur job growth. Critics call it the governor's slush fund. "He takes from us so that he can play with his corporate slush fund and award his friends' businesses," said Debra Medina, one of Perry's two challengers for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, at a recent candidate's debate.
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Frank Rich | The New Rove-Cheney Assault on Reality
Frank Rich, The New York Times | The opening salvo, fired on Fox News during Thanksgiving week, aroused little notice: Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, declared that "we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."
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| | Neil Durrance for Congress | | 
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26the Congressional District of Texas
-Keep American jobs in America
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-Increase Pell Grants and decrease tuition
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| | Dallas Sierra Club -TRAIL REHABILITATION AT CEDAR RIDGE PRESERVE | |
MAR 20 (SAT) TRAIL REHABILITATION AT CEDAR RIDGE PRESERVE, 9:00 - 11:00 AM Volunteer to help remove non-native plants, restore trails, and work in the butterfly garden at Cedar Ridge Preserve, 7171 Mountain Creek Parkway, Dallas, TX, 75249, phone 972-709-7784 if you get lost. Time: 911 AM. We'll provide snacks, water, pruning shears, shovels, and work gloves. All you need to bring is sun screen and bug repellent. Questions for the preserve? Contact info_CRP@yahoo.com. FREE Wine probable if you show up! HA. See you guys and gals there. Really, we gotta do this, its so cool. Call Ginger at 469-223-7902 for details. Leader: Ginger Bradley 469-223-7902(C)
| | House party screening of Crude , the movie Chevron doesn't want you to see. ! | |
From Peggy! Environmental Friends, I'm hosting a house party screening of Crude on March 27. This is the movie Chevron doesn't want us to see. I wanted to invite
you to the screening. Crude is a gripping documentary about the humanitarian
crisis caused by oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
To attend a screening go to HERE and find my event in Garland.
| | Tarrant County Senate District Convention Gala | | Please join us for an event to support the Tarrant County Democratic Party.
2010 Senate District Convention Gala Featuring live music and dancing. Come and Help Support Our Senate District Conventions and Our 2010 Campaign Efforts
Individual Ticket: $80.00 Questions? Please email Jace@tcdp.net or call 817-335-8683 to RSVP BUY TICKET HERE Fri Mar 19 6pm - 10pm Central Time
Hilton Hotel, 815 Main St, Fort Worth 76102
| | The New York Times | Antitrust and Your Vote | | When the nation's largest voting machine manufacturer, Election Systems and Software, acquired the voting machine business of Diebold, the nation's second-largest manufacturer, it set off alarms for anyone who cares about election integrity. The combination meant that 70 percent of the nation's voting machines would be provided by just one company.
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| | Karl Rove Protest Monday and Tuesday in Dallas and Ft Worth | |
Join many of the Pinks and other Peace and Justice advocates and protest Rove book tour visit to Dallas and Ft Worth
Rove in Dallas Monday/15 and Fort Worth Tuesday/16. Luncheon starts at noon in both places, but registration for guests starts at 11:15. We have the orange jumpsuits and the  usual banners & signs: TORTURE IS ILLEGAL; NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW; JUSTICE, PLEASE; THE AUDACITY OF WAR CRIMES, etc., and I can get some "ARREST ROVE" and "GIVE ROVE A FAIR TRIAL" and any others you can think of printed up. How 'bout "ROVE PROUD OF TORTURE!" or "TORTURE IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF!" The trick is to get enough people there to hold them.Leslie says they will be in front of the Hyatt at Reunion at 11 a.m. on Monday. Join us?Email Leslie here if you can attend Karl Rove event
| | The Errington Thompson Show | | 
Do you want to hear a great Progressive Talk Radio show ?
Listen to Dallas native Dr. Errington Thompson on Revolution 880 from Asheville, NC live Saturdays 3-4pm cst
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| | Franken comic book biography coming soon | |
It's hard to remember, but there was a time when Al Franken was just a comic and writer. Today, though, he is a rising political star.
Franken is also set to become the latest subject in Bluewater Productions' Political Power line of biography comics. Political Power: Al Franken will be released to comic shops across the country in May 2010.
Franken made history in 2008, when he defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to become the junior U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Of course, this victory did not come easily. In a race that was decided by a razor-thin margin and involved a recount and several appeals, all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which ruled in Franken's favor. Franken was finally sworn in on July 7, 2009 after Coleman declined to take the controversial case to the U.S. Supreme Court and instead conceded after a hard-fought, eight-month ordeal.
Political Power: Al Franken will trace the Senator's rise from Saturday Night Live writer, a position he often used to skewer politicians, to radio talk show host to viable Senate candidate.
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** also on Obama, Limbaugh etc
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| | Keith Olbermann's Father Dies | |
Keith Olbermann's Father Dies
Keith Olbermann: "Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010 My father died, in the city of his birth, New York, at 3:50 EST [Saturday] afternoon."
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| | Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress, | |
*** NOTE the Republicans are winning with the use of Social Networking tools
"Beginning with the widespread use of e-mail by Congress in the mid-1990's, the development of new electronic technologies has altered the traditional patterns of communication between Members of Congress and constituents. Many Members now use e-mail, official websites, blogs, YouTube channels, and Facebook pages to communicate with their constituents--technologies that were either non-existent or not widely available 15 years ago
Read report here
| | TurboTax announces Glenn Beck ad pull via Twitter | |
Glenn Beck is a performance artist of the highest order. Whenever I have happened upon a little clip of him online, I feel that he has studied just about every successful TV evangelist. He seems to mimic their hand gestures, their little eye rolls. And just like the finest TV evangelist, he also seems to succeed in making a lot of money.
But for how much longer can his act be lucrative? Tax-preparation software company TurboTax on Wednesday became the 120th company to take its ads away from Beck's variety show on Fox.
Companies such as Kraft, Mercedes, Geico, Verizon, and AT&T have already decided that Beck's invective can tend toward the objectionable and therefore should not enjoy their advertising. TurboTax decided to announce its decision in a tweet on Twitter.com/turbotax
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