{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} 40 days from today - on May 18 - we will see two HUGE primaries for U.S. Senate. Even though these races aren't in Massachusetts, they impact Democrats across the country and, well, the … [Read more...]
PA-Sen: Netroots Overwhelmingly Support a Draft Sestak Effort
{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} As many of you know, over the last five days, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, in partnership with a number of progressive organizations and blogs including Senate Guru, asked those … [Read more...]
Yearly Kos, Senator Kerry AWOL, and Our Constitution
In many ways, "netroots" really is confrontational and does hold politicians accountable. In the 1960's and 70's large numbers of people just showing up for a demonstration was a statement. At YKOS more than 1,500 people showed … [Read more...]
Arrogance!
I love Jon Keller because he always knows how to press my buttons, God bless 'im ... First, I'm sure YearlyKos attendees David and Bob would be amused to hear themselves called "The ideologues who flock to the most polarizing, … [Read more...]
Campaign kickoff today
Today is the official beginning of my campaign for Congress. I will be speaking at five different locations across the district: 8 am -- Lancaster -- Sandee's Restaurant, 162 Main Street10 am -- Concord -- Emerson Hospital, 133 Old … [Read more...]
www.JamieForCongress.com is LIVE
I wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that my campaign website was launched yesterday: www.JamieForCongress.comIt is a work in progress, so I welcome feedback from the BMG community on ways to make it as informative and useful as … [Read more...]
Join the Lefty Blogger Coalition on Deval’s New Website
Cross-Posted at Ryan's TakeI've been testing around Deval Patrick's new website - having loads of fun. Seriously, it's FUN.Anyway, I realized it makes perfect sense to have a coalition on the site with members who read, write and otherwise … [Read more...]
The campaign for our country
I wanted to call attention to the staff recruitment blogad that John Kerry has put here on BMG and a lot of other progressive blogs. We are putting together a internet team that will be based in Boston (probably on Portland St. or … [Read more...]
Live Blogging at Civic Engagement/K-12 Working Group Meeting
I will be liveblogging from the meeting in Millbury this evening. My blogs will be in the comments because it's easier then editing this post. 6:55 PM Lynne and myself, along with designermama (Barb) rolled up to the high school in Milbury … [Read more...]
Observations on the role of local committees in the election
I'm delighted of course, that Deval Patrick and Tim Murray won the election, along with our other democratic candidates but I am very disappointed that Deval and Tim (and our democratic candidate for State Rep.) lost in my town, and the … [Read more...]