Saturday, November 26th, 2005...9:25 pm
Housekeeping and Such
I recieved an e-mail from Gretchen Wagenseller, a Democratic Precinct Committeeperson from the Northwest Side. She asked that I add the Friends of Farley blog on my “progressive” blogroll.
I didn’t initially add Farley because I was supporting Nina Trasoff in the primary. Since that’s over now, I guess it’s okay to add him. Since he lost the primary, his campaign website has become more of a political blog, where he comments on local issues. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s always thought provoking.
Also, this means that I took off the campaign sites for Trasoff and Karin Uhlich. Also, I took down the link to Fred Ronstadt’s blog. See, my joke was that he never put anything on there.
I also removed the link to the other Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion (they include that final comma). The site has not been updated since February, so there isn’t much point in keeping that up there.
I will keep the blog roll, but I may ditch the “blogrolling” service. I thought it would be nice to have the tag that tells the user if a site has been updated or not. The presence of the “Updated!” tag seems to only have the most coincidental relationship to whether or not the page has been updated.
I found it odd that Ms. Wagenseller called my list of blogs “progressive,” since it includes Espresso Pundit.
Something funny has been going on over the last few days. Progressive friends of mine have been telling me about how great Jeff Latas is. They point to his military record as one reason why the Republicans would be scared of him. Some of these same people gave me grief a year and a half ago for supporting Wesley Clark.
3 Comments
November 27th, 2005 at 4:08 am
What a difference a year makes. I think that a lot of heads will be turned by Latas. Not only is there there intervening Hackett phenominon, but some Dems see nominating vets as a cheap and easy way to make it appear that we have a cogent foreign policy. And, hey, maybe it wouldn’t hurt.
I still don’t trust Wes, though
November 27th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for including Steve Farley’s blog in your, let’s say, “diverse yet progressive leaning” list of blogs. [GAK! mea culpa–I just now checked out Espresso Pundit.]
Many of us Dems are interested in Jeff Latas’ candidacy. The AZ Daily Star included CD 8 statistics from the Almanac for American Politics–20,000 more Republicans than Democrats; 2004 election–53% for Bush and 46% for Kerry; 19.1% veterans. With these statistics, obviously Latas’ military service is a plus–and the Dems are going to needed a lot of plusses to win this seat.
FYI–I live in P 186–I’m not a PC.
November 28th, 2005 at 5:55 am
I’m sorry, I thought your e-mail said you were a PC in District 26.
Glad to see you are a reader though.
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