From an email: [MaDemsForum] Emergency Appeal for Support Tonight! From: mademsforum@yahoogroups.com on behalf of [redacted] Sent: Tue 5/04/10 5:29 PM To: MaDemsForum@yahoogroups.com Folks, There is a candidates forum in Norfolk … [Read more...]
Activist Alert: FEC Comment Period for Volunteer Material Exemptions
This may be of interest to those of you interested in grassroots activism and party-building. From my inbox: New Draft Policy on Volunteer Materials Available for Your Comment. From: Federal Election Commission … [Read more...]
Marie Antoinette Democrats and working-class voters
From James Carville and Stanley Greenberg: The biggest challenge facing Democrats in 2010 after passing health care is getting the economy right - and this is even more important than health care. While economic growth is better than … [Read more...]
Wonk Post: For the cyber-activists, journalists, and attorneys on this list
From an email: A brief note to let you know about a special event on Friday, April 9:The Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Citizen Media Law Project and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School will celebrate the launch of the … [Read more...]
Schadenfreude watch: King Lear Division
As Rupert Murdoch sinks into a pile of senescent goo, News Corporation comes apart at the seams. Read and enjoy. Uh, David, uh, does this count as a personal attack? … [Read more...]
Unpleasant Wonkfact: Tort Reform Won’t Affect Health Care Costs
From the Wonkfile Archives, here's an oldie but goodie link from August. Tort reform (more precisely, restricting patient redress) is just a way of croaking the trial bar for overwhelmingly contributing to Democrats. … [Read more...]
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Wonk Post for Sweat-Equity Folk
James Carville's shop just put out polling and comprehensive strategy memoranda. All polling, analysis, and suggested responses, are downloadable in pdf format. IMHO, a good and dispassonate analysis of the current populist revolt that led … [Read more...]
The Brown victory and progressive culpability
From another post: She had no organic grassroots organization to speak of outside of the tired machinery of old school ward bosses and unions. She did not utilize new media... Actually the "tired old machinery of old school ward bosses and … [Read more...]
Wonk Post: link to the text of the health care bill
Right here. And here's the Manager's amendment. … [Read more...]