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Eldridge Campaign Launches Jamie TV

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It’s cool when a candidate takes a chance and bucks the traditional in order to talk to voters. Today, the Eldridge campaign launched its first weekly episode of Jamie TV, a You-Tube, rough-cut, off-cuff Jamie in front of a raw camera talking about the campaign and the issues he’s running to support. You can tune in any Wednesday for new episodes.

In the first episode, Jamie talks about health care (and he gets in my favorite line, in reference to his opponents, “I’m not running for Congress to accept political reality, I’m running to create political reality.”). He sums up nicely what the differences are between himself and the other Dems in the race. He also lists some new endorsements, including Progressive Democrats of America.

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  1. Every time I see Jamie, I’m more convinced that he’s the right candidate for the district.  He ended asking people to volunteer – here’s this week’s schedule of volunteer opportunities:

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    This week we have many volunteer opportunities to get involved in the campaign, please contact Neel Chaudhury (neel@jamieforcongress.com) or David Emer (emer@jamieforcongress.com) to get involved.

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    CANVASSES

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    Wednesday 7/11 4pm – 9pm
    Canvass Methuen
    Meet at Acton HQ

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    Thursday 7/12 5:30
    Canvass Acton
    Meet at Woodlawn Cemetery parking lot Acton

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    Thursday 7/12 4pm – 9pm
    Canvass Andover
    Meet at Acton HQ

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    Saturday 7/14 11am
    Canvass Carlisle
    Meet at home of Bob Wallhagen
    64 Timothy Lane, Carlisle

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    Saturday 7/14 10am
    Canvass Concord
    Meet at home of Pat Hart
    97 Minot Rd, Concord

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    Saturday 7/14 2am
    Canvass Ayer
    Meet at Ayer train station parking lot

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    Saturday 7/14 10am
    Canvass Littleton
    Meet at home of Jane Chrisfeld
    22 Mill Lane, Littleton

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    Saturday 7/14 11am – 2pm
    Canvass Billerica
    Meet at Market Basket
    496 Boston Rd, Billerica

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    Sunday 7/15 11am
    Stow/Maynard/Hudson regional canvass
    Meet at home of Kate Hogan
    36 Hastings St, Stow

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    PHONEBANK

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    Wednesday 7/11 6:30pm ? 8pm
    Campaign HQ
    136 Main St, Acton

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    Thursday 7/12 6:30pm ? 8pm
    Campaign HQ
    136 Main St, Acton

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    Boston Phonebank
    Every Thursday – 6pm – 8:30pm
    Metropolitan Boston Real Estate Office
    297 Newbury Street Suite 301
    Boston, MA

  2. I am a strong support of Jamie and think this is a great idea and well executed. Thanks for the post.

    • Why is it called Jamie TV when it isn’t on TV?

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      …you can get to youtube.com by typing in the new Internet domain designation “tv” instead of “com.”

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      What’s your next kvetch?

      • are you saying I can get to youtube.com or youtube.tv using my television?  If I can then it would be fine to say JamieTV because I could get to it using my TV.

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        Will Jamie be following up with messages sent by Blackberry?  Then we can have JamieBlackberry too.  Or how about JamieBeeper?  Better yet, JamieHam for those people who still use ham radios.  In the North End Jamie could have JamieYellingoutTheWindow.

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        JamieTV – what will he think of next?  He has leadership written all over him.

    • I don’t know if you are just posting this to be a jerk or if you truly wanted to know. Check any candidate, Mitt, Patrick etc. it’s the standard naming of videos posted for a candidate.  It’s basically what it’s called.  Kind of like asking why to they call a refrigerator a refrigerator.

  5. …this is an interesting development.  But I wonder how long youtube will allow people to basically advertise for free.  Maybe they will have to institute a “stale date” after which posts are deleted, since storage is not exactly free.

    • all the progressive ads.  The progressive ads are filled to overflowing with absolute fact and logic based information while the GOP ads are filled with propaganda brainwashing and false advertising.  Everyone knows it.

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      In fact we should make a law that changes the name of YouTube to BlueTube and allow only videos that denegrate Republicans.  How sweet would that be?  I would spend all my time in the fuzzy warm blanket of truth known as BlueTube.

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      We can make Deval Patrick the King of BlueTube and force children to watch videos dealing with gay/lesbian sex issues while eating Trans-Fat free french fries.  I know that sounds harsh, but we have to wash their little brains clean of all the evil right wing mindcontrol that has gone on at their homes and churches.  Anyone that tries to post a video that mentions God would be sued and imprisoned – and beaten.  To make room at the prisons we can let out all the victims of racial profiling that have been arrested wrongly over the years – you know, like Ben LaGuer.

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      I think I like posting at BlueMassGroup.  It’s progressive.

      • Your name may have changed, but you’ll always be massgop.news to me. 

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        Maybe to you, it is censorship to delete a 4-year old video of Danny’s Little League game that nobody has watched in 3 1/2 years, uploaded on an account that hasn’t had a log in in 3 years.  To most of us, that would be good business sense.  Computer memory isn’t quite free, yet.  Personally, I hope they don’t delete some old Republican clips, of Romney denouncing his party, Giuliani ranting against ferrets, or Trent Lott or George Allen throwing racial slurs.

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        But if you got a hankering for censorship, you can’t go wrong with Conservapedia.com, or qubetv.tv , both unintentionally hilarious sites managed by conservatives keen on stifling expression.

        • …Conservapedia.com exercises some idiotorial supervision over their space, unlike Wikipedia.  Unfortunately, for Conservapedia, it shows what idiots they are. 

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          In a perverse kind of way, I wonder if they are being intentionally inane.

          • They are transparent about their goals, especially lately.  I remember at the outset, the front page was a bland copy of Wikipedia.  Now, with their Bible quotes, Fox News headlines, and self-branding with the American flag, it’s pretty clear to which version of reality they’re linked.

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            Randomwiki.com is a great site that deals with Conservapedia, and is the hq for, what some would term “online direct action” against them. 

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            • …As I’ve long posted (not only here recently, but elsewhere long ago) follow the money.  I really do believe that.

        • Trust I am no longer gopnews.blog.  I have not only changed my handle, but changed my political affiliation as well because of George W Bush and his moronic ideas about letting 20 to 30 million illegal immigrants invade our country without recourse.  Of course, the impotency of the state party helped as well.  In my departure from the GOP, after 26 years no less, I never gave the Democrats a single second of consideration.  I think Democrats are enemies of this great nation.

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          As for censorship, we are staring into the face of it with the move by Democrats to regulate talk radio because the conservatives have a lock on it.  In typical liberal fashion – when your not competent enough to compete then you must regulate.  Soon enough we will listen to the unbridled drivel of liberal loonies spewing their venomous socialist plague on the taxpayer financed airwaves.  The government that was built to protect my liberties is planning to take my money in order to finance radio shows that will tell my children what a horrible land we live in and how we need to give more money to socialize children to become progressives.

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          As for YouTube clips, my favorites are of Ted “last call” Kennedy calling Barack Obama – Obama Bin Laden. 

          • Which one is it: “The conservatives have a lock on it” or “when your [sic] not competent enough to compete then you must regulate”? I’ll answer for you: the first. And it’s not that the content of conservative talk radio is better OR more profitable. In Columbus, there’s a perfect example. The Clear Channel station there (WYTS) became MORE profitable when they switched to progressive talk, and LESS profitable when they switched to conservative talk. But the management (the Bush-friendly Mays family) is willing to lose money by staying with the same old conservative gas-bags as long as it furthers the Republican party. So you’re right — they DO have a lock on it. Smartest thing you ever did was to abandon that party. There’s hope for you yet.

      • That’s hilarious… warped, but hilarious! (Still dithering whether to rate 3, 6, split the difference, or just let it go….)

  6. is that dirt or turd under his nose?

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    And he let’s Michael MOORE SPEAK FOR HIM.
    I AM NOT IMPRESSED

    • That was gripping.  I really liked the part when he moved a little and showed emotion.  What a leader he is.  That is the kind of get-up-and-go that we need to replace marty meecham.  Now, I don’t mean to imply that during the video he got up and went anywhere, but nonetheless.

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      We should call him the great communicator.  Ronald Reagan doesn’t deserve that title anymore because he is dead.  I think we should make a law that once you are dead you can’t have a nickname anymore.  Somebody get on that right away.

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      I can hear it now – Jamie Eldridge: Congressman.  Hey, can we start his presidential exploratory committee now?  I want to be on the list of volunteers now that I can help once a month.

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      I like that he didn’t try to impress us by dressing up, combing his hair or washing his face.  That shows that he is a  man of the people.  No stuffy Republican presentation filled with waving flags, trumpet songs or renditions of “God Bless America”.  Afterall, we hate America, don’t we BMG buddies?  Let’s meet tomorrow for a we hate America rally at Deval Patrick’s house.  The one in Milton, not the estate in the Berkshires.

      • a candidate for union rep at the local post office. not congressional at all.
        He has a little too cool for school in him.

  7.   Wow, I love how a guy tries to express his views through a free medium on his on website and you bash him. Its insanity, I mean then you people come on here and complain about how politics is awash in money. Candidates spend millions of dollars to convince the sheep that the American Voter is to vote for them and you hate that but when someone tries something different you bash him too. You wonder why congress is polling at 18%, we are in debt up to our eyeballs, our government lies to us on a daily basis and there is no change in site. It just amazes me. So lets keep electing more of the same. Niki is a Reagan Democrat, Barry is a conservative yes man to business, and Eileen is no leader, but it’s ok. Lets elect people with no experience or a strong position, hey that works for me as long as they are gone in 2012, but then it might be McGovern because he has a progressive record so we may want to get rid of him.

    • he comes off like an intern making a home movie. i don’t mind the medium he usues. he just sucks at it. in my opinion.
      the last thing he looks like is a congressman.

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      boo hoo hoo, the other candidates didn’t come to my movie night. The Michael Moore candidate

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      and BTW jamie is the name for little boys and smokin’ chicks. Not men, and certainly not congressmen. In my opinion

      • You’re right. He should run as “Jack” Eldridge.

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        BTW, Deval did the same kind of thing on his video clips, speaking in the campaign office with signs and clutter behind him. He’s governor now — maybe you noticed?

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        What does a “congressman” look like? Maybe this guy?

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        Great hair. Handsome. Good name — though maybe he should change it to “John”.

      • As someone who has come to support Jamie recently, I found this video to be adequate, but I would have liked more. I appreciate the substance, and I think Jamie’s personality is his personality. But there was something about it that wasn’t ‘like, wow, I’m going to forward that onto all my friends so they can see how great Jamie is.’ If I was trying to raise money for him, it’s not what I’d link to.

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        They need to do something more exciting, more interesting, more engaging, that gives people the idea of why he’s the best candidate. This didn’t quite do it.

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