Nov. 5th, 2002

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Right at this moment I can't bear to watch.

if you feel the same way, or if you want some history (sections on Jeb and Bob Ehrlich in Maryland) or you just haven't heard enough cute stories about my kid or my cat or my (ow) foot or you want a peek at 9/11 from one New York perspective or to check out the blogroll, I put together a rough history list here

I'm still updating it, but there's plenty there.

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edit: it's from this

.. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
A medley of extemporanea
And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Roumania.

Off with your heads. By the way.

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edit again: oh, for crying out loud.

yes, you have to vote first. no archives until you vote.

damn slackers.
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Please, please, please go to The Election.

Pandagon, Eschaton, Daily Kos, Hauser Report and MyDD have joined up to post all the really egregious voter suppression news. Go take a read. It's a horror story.

The latest: gaybaiting pushpolling in New Hampshire.

I'm going to mail them the stories I found so there's somewhere central for folks to go.

Election2000 - vote against politics as usual

Election2002 - vote against politics as usual in a banana republic


No kidding. Make your vote count this time or you, and an awful lot of other people, may not get another chance.

If you don't vote, or if you use your franchise on a 'conscience' vote in a close race, this stuff is what you're voting _for_

I'm going to let these guys do this and back off, because it makes sense, and because all I can really say at this point is that

if it didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to keep you from doing it.

vote for the people who won't be allowed to.

I suspect your conscience will let you sleep very nicely afterwards.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead

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Who put the benzedrine in Mrs. D'Orleans' oatmeal?

Body and Soul: taking no prisoners since first thing this morning.

all of them, really. just go look.

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Eric Alterman isn't taking a whole lot of prisoners today neither.

Sample quote:

Atrios reports that NBC is using Rush Limbaugh as an election analyst tonight. I guess it’s affirmative-action for the kinds of guys who think it’s funny to use their TV programs to call 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton a dog. Congrats, guys. And congrats to the folks at CNBC for the balance, perspicacity and intellectual openness to invite the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal to be their regular political analysts. I guess the problem here is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco really is dead, and CNBC wanted the Next Best Thing.

He also has a few words about third party voting (which, mirabile dictu, I did)

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off all things: voting machines in Florida are registering Jeb votes if you vote for McBride.

via Lean Left

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get donkey! with the news so far (voter turnout was pretty high in my little NYC precinct, considering that everyone's still at work, fwiw)

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I know we could have thousands (here) if we just had a memorial service," said U.S. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Sugar Land. The comment drew hoots from those who recognized DeLay's reference to the funeral of U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., which critics contend resembled a Democratic political pep rally with 20,000 attendees.

Two Tears in a Bucket has the contact information for the honorable gentleman, as he is counterintuitively known to his colleagues in the House due to the lack of forethought shown by our founding fathers in this area.

She also has some local races.

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Why I personally (just) voted third party this year, and why other progressive New Yorkers should too, as explained by Ruminate This.

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The Road to Surfdom tells us how it all looks from Australia, not gently.

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Oh, Mr Pitt did Mr Webster no favors at all by attracting regulatory attention to him, says Mr Newman, and he makes an interesting case for it.

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Note: you have the right to keep your vote private.
You have the right to bring your six year old into the booth with you.

These appear to be mutually exclusive rights.

Hiss. Spit

Nov. 5th, 2002 04:41 pm
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# Looking for ways to defray the costs of the White House's permanent campaign mode, the administration billed the Office of Family Assistance $210,000 to help pay for five trips in which Bush promoted welfare reform at official events, then made fundraising stops for Republican office seekers, according to the Washington Post. In all likelihood, the White House scheduled Bush to make brief speeches about welfare reform in cities where he already had fundraisers scheduled. That way the Republican Party, which has to pay for fundraising activity, would not have to pick up all of Bush's travel costs. According to available records, Clinton also billed government agencies to share the cost of domestic trips that had a political agenda, but at nowhere near the rate Bush does. During his final four years in office, Clinton billed Health and Human Services $243,862 for 45 presidential events. By contrast, Bush has already billed HHS $210,000 for just five trips in six months.

from Salon

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