Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura says that MSNBC canceled his cable program "Jesse Ventura's America" back in 2003 because he was opposed to the Iraq war. According to the former professional wrestler, the network continued to pay his salary despite his termination in order to prevent him from speaking his antiwar views elsewhere. Such was reported by the Los Angeles Times in an interview...
Doug at Balloon Juice has a point: I can't think of a reason why Sarah Palin is good for conservatism either . But the notion that the GOP will lose membership to a Ross Perot/Jesse Ventura style third party is also wrong. The Teabaggers don't want a third party. They want to take over the Republican Party and kick out everyone who is not a Teabagger . They figure once that happens, moderates will...
Progressive Majority is an organization that has been winning LOCAL elections in key swing states. Minnesota is home to many of the 20th century's most progressive leaders and most civic-minded citizens. Progressives from diverse backgrounds such as Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarty, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison have represented Minnesota. Yet, counter to that progressive...
Eric Pusey called the other day and told me not to put words like ******** and **** in my stories here. But when I read the piece on Michele Bachmann turned in by TW Budig of the ECM newspaper chain... It's as if Budig did a piece on Mussolini in 1922 and the theme was: "My, this hometown boy is certainly becoming a national figure, isn't he? Look at all the voters who showed up for that March...
Thursday was a busy day in the New Jersey governors race. Not only was it the day of the last debate between the three main contenders, but we were also treated to three new polls in the race*. The take-home message from those surveys? Corzine and Christie have deadlocked just below the 40% mark, and at least today, independent Chris Daggett has consolidated much of the rest. Across the three polls...
The chatter around the New Jersey gubernatorial race this Tuesday three weeks before the election centered on whether independent Chris Daggett could actually win the election in the Garden state. 77% of the new Quinnipiac survey's respondents thought not, but that didn't keep the good folks at NBC News' First Read from wondering aloud about the possibility. Well, at the very least it didn't prevent...
First Read notes that "11 years ago, almost to the day, a new poll came out in the Minnesota governor's race showing third party candidate, Jesse Ventura, sitting at 15%. At the time, just like here in New Jersey, all the buzz in Minnesota was about how Skip Humphrey and Norm Coleman were beating each other up, while the national climate, by the way, wasn't good for either party as we were in...
On Fits And Starts by digby The Politico has written a somewhat unenlightening article about Alan Grayson's floor speech, but I can't help but be a little bit tickled by a quote of his, which is also used in the headline of the piece. He said: “We cannot run this institution on the basis of Republican hissy fits. The title is "The pros and cons of hissy fits." I'm please by this because...
By Matt Hawes At long last, I'm proud to announce that today marks the official release of the Rally for the Republic DVD in the C4L store ! Here's the official product description: "Freedom brings people together." -Congressman Ron Paul On September 2, 2008, the Rally for the Republic brought over 10,000 activists to the Target Center in Minneapolis to proclaim their steadfast belief in...
CNN has a story on Silicon Valley bigwigs moving into the political arena. They are tracking former eBay chief Meg Whitman in her race with Steve Poizner for the Republican nomination for California governor in 2010. Poizner also has a few high-ranking, high tech jobs on his resume, including selling his company SnapTrak to QualComm before becoming the state's insurance commissioner. The CNN story...
Can Meg Whitman move from a successful career in Silicon Valley to the world of rough-and-tumble politics? FULLERTON, California (CNN) — Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger have both done it. So did astronaut John Glenn and basketball great Bill Bradley. Even Jesse Ventura was able to capitalize on a wrestling career as a way to leap [...]
Progressive Majority is an organization that has been winning LOCAL elections in key swing states. Minnesota is home to many of the 20th century's most progressive leaders and most civic-minded citizens. Progressives from diverse backgrounds such as Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarty, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison have represented Minnesota. Yet, counter to that progressive...
This is basically a heads up on a diary I saw at Daily Kos this morning by someone who actually attended last night. The video above is from the Norwich Bulletin, "Emotions run high at health care talk in Woodstock" . Here is a bit of what ShadowSD wrote at DailyKos: GO TO THESE TOWN HALL MEETINGS AND CALL THEM OUT, using the same type of language, including the "insurance companies...
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