Once in a while, I come across a name I recognize from my far flung political past. In the growing scandal over Republican operative James O’Keefe (he of the now discredited “ACORN Pimp” video) breaking into Senator Mary Landrieu’s office for reasons unclear, one of the people being quoted is Louisiana Democratic State Chairman [...]
Durring my years with the Young Democrats of America, I used to run with a guy named Rickey Cole. In addition to his exalted position within the YDA, Cole served as chairman of his county’s Democratic Party.
Back in 1998, Cole was doing election day organizing for Ronnie Shows, the Democratic candidate for congress in his [...]
Kevin “LD” Bondelli has a post over at Future Majority about his frustrations about youth inaugural activities being focused on young staffers rather than youth organizers and activists. There is an online colloquy between him and fellow Arizonan Stan Williams. It is worth reading.
Another symptom of the same problem was the silliness that happened at [...]
This hit my e-mail box mere moments ago…
May 8, 2008 (Washington, DC) — MrSuper.org is a website which was created in March to debunk myths, offer insight and answer questions about the 2008 Democratic nomination process for President. The author, who has been posting under the pseudonym “Mr. Super” will announce his identity today.
The site [...]
Years ago, a couple of us worked the U of A to register voters. I knew that one of the candidates that year had a program where they contacted newly registered voters. I thought it would be helpful to give them the names of the folks that we had registered that day, 110 of them.
Instead [...]
I relent.
My friend Sisto Abeyta is running for President of the Young Democrats of America. He’s been unsubtly asking me “where is the love?” since, unlike many of his supporters, I haven’t put him in my MySpace “Top Friends.” Who is he suggesting I bump off for him? Lalo Guerrero? The Furious Truckstop Waitresses? Amy [...]
Even though I don’t fit into any known “youth” category any longer, I still recieve missives from the various youth arms of the Democratic Party. I ran across this one from the College Democrats of America:
Dear College Democrat,
It is with great pleasure that I announce the one and only Senator Hillary Clinton will be joining [...]
I know that us liberals are supposed to be spectacular whimps compared to the oh-so-manly men that lead the Republican party. I mean, not one Democrat has ever shot a friend in the face while hunting captive quail.
But there is a strain of conservative commentary that makes them look like simpering three-year olds: the strain that [...]
I sometimes post on Daily Kos, and usually regret it.
If I have a post on here that I think has national interest, I’ll “crosspost” it to Daily Kos. I have to admit that part of the reason is to drive traffic over here. Kos likely has more readers in Arizona than I do. Every time I [...]
A bit of a followup to something I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. At this weekend’s DNC meeting, Young Democrats of America. The YDA, which officially has three at-large members on the DNC, has been demanding that state parties be directed to recognize goals for recruiting young delegates, just as they are directed [...]
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