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A Legion of Black Women Voters
Since we have officially embarked upon the campaign season, this Wikizine will focus on the presidential campaign. Included will be thoughts, ideas, articles, and updates on what's happening as we get closer to November 08. The... [more]
Since we have officially embarked upon the campaign season, this Wikizine will focus on the presidential campaign. Included will be thoughts, ideas, articles, and updates on what's happening as we get closer to November 08.
The Wikizine is intended to as a political venue with a focus on African-American women voters. It has been said by CNN, ABC, FOX, CBS, and print media as well, that our vote could very well determine not only the Democratic nominee for president - but the President of the UNITED STATES. That is an awesome challenge - but a challenge that we are no doubt up for.
This Wikizine is also a tribute to the African-American women who fought and even died to make our vote count and possible. Like Sojourner said over 100 years ago "Ain't I a Woman?".
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November 30, 2009Atlanta, GA --- Georgia Independent Voters held a press conference on Mondaymorning, November 30th, on the eve of the December 1st city runoff election formayor. Before taking questions, GIV members gave a brief statement. Here is atranscript of the statement:Murray Dabby: “Good morning. Thank you all for coming. As representativesof Georgia Independent Voters (“GIV”), part of a grassroots network ofindependents around the...
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Georgia Independent Voters (“GIV”) – a state-based association of independent voters will hold a press conference announcing endorsement of Atlanta mayoral candidate Kasim Reed. Monday, November 30, 2009 - 10:00 a.m., Atlanta City Hall, 68 Mitchell St SW, Atlanta, GA.Independent voter organization, Georgia Independent Voters (“GIV”), screened mayoral candidates over the summer and endorsed Kasim Reed who won a spot in the runoff election with...
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Media discussion of a return to 90s "angry white male" profile of independent voters BIG OMISSION -- the face of independents is increasingly black, Latino, Asian, female, and progressive.... but let 'em rant! [See section 6 of Jackie Salit's How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right] Whoever independents are, Mark Silva got it right -- they dislike both parties. Independents don't like partisanship. Period... ****** Discussion of...
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CT: John Mertens challenges Chris Dodd on the Lieberman line, to what end?ME: Independent Gov candidate Alex Hammer speaks for small business and Obama's party dilemmaDon Campbell thinks it's time for independents to 'rise up'NC: Repubs vote to keep open primaryAL: Alabama Files Brief in 11th Circuit in Ballot Access Case (Ballot Access News)PA: Partisan redistricting helps pols elect themselvesGA: Kasim Reed certified as Atlanta's mayor...
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Rasmussen's fictional "Tea Party candidate" bested the Republican in a recent survey...If Abel Maldonado is confirmed as California's lt. gov., he will put people ahead of party...Walter Moore, former independent candidate for mayor of LA talks about voter turnout and partisanship...Repubs in Virginia's 5th CD decide on primary over convention...
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Atlanta Mayoral candidates Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed fight for Tuesday's African American, gay and independent vote. Utah is 39% independent. And the New York "All-The News-That-Money-Sees-Fit-to-Print" Times chooses to report the NYC Independence Party's 150,000 vote in the mayoral race on Nov. 3 in a Sunday editorial yesterday about NY state campaign finance laws... Go figure! Oh - plus, NY press continues to go after the WFP...ATLANTA...
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Must read on Redding News Review -- Lenora Fulani explains why she did not support Bill Thompson in November's mayoral race in NYC.... ******* With more than 40% of the country being independent, opening up the primaries is an important democratic (small "d") electoral reform that would promote non-partisanship and allow independent voters access to the first round of voting. Californians will vote in June 2010 on a "Top Two" version of open...
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I just got an email from Moveon endorsing the House version of healthcare reform:
Unfortunately, the Senate bill was badly weakened by conservatives. It doesn't have a public option, doesn't do enough to make insurance affordable, and doesn't create real competition for insurance companies.
The House bill is much better. So as the two bills get merged, we need House Democrats to insist that the best pieces of the House bill are...
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We've had the same logo since 2000, so I thought it might be time for a new one. Do you like any of these new designs? It's a simple concept: turning the familiar "@" sign into a "d" for Democrats. Click each one to see it larger.
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For Immediate Release: December 3, 2009
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Three progressive Democrats who are running in primaries for Congress today declared their support for Jobs Not Wars.
The candidates are Jonathan Tasini, who is challenging appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); Regina Thomas, who is re-challenging BlueDog John Barrow (GA-12); and Marcy Winograd, who is re-challenging BlueDog Jane Harman (CA-36...
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Democratic leaders - including President Obama - are telling progressives we must accept LieberCare or give up on healthcare reform for a generation.
They're wrong.
We ended up with LieberCare because Joe Lieberman is the 60th vote to end a 40-vote Republican filibuster.
If there were 39 Republicans, and Lieberman was the 61st vote, he'd be irrelevant.
So the real choice for progressives is whether to accept LieberCare or make...
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We support President Obama, but we cannot support the escalation of George Bush's war in Afghanistan. Congress, not the President, decides how our tax dollars are spent.
After 8 years, nearly 5,300 U.S. lives, and $3 trillion, it's time to bring our troops safely home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tell Congress to vote against any funds for these wars, except to bring our troops safely home.
http://www.democrats.com/jobs-not-wars
We have...
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At the moment, the debate over LieberCare is dominated by LieberCrats: party-line Democrats who appear willing to swallow everything Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson want to force down our collective throats. In the blogosphere, the most aggressive LieberCrats are Ezra Klein and Nate Silver.
So here's a challenge to the LieberCrats: is there anything you won't swallow from the insurance and drug companies in the name of "reform"?
This is not...
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Javier David: "Jesse Jackson's Race-Baiting Is Doing The President No Favor"The conservative writer in New York City, USA opines about Rev. Jackson's attack on Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against government-run health care, stating against the moderate Democrat: "You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man": "With those impolitic remarks, Rev. Jackson set a new low in the already controversial debate over...
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A round-up of the most recent stories over the past week or so reveals a heavy emphasis on the performance of independent voters in the Gov races in NJ and PA and a striking omission of the election of the first independent mayor of New York City on the Independence Party line. Clearly organized independents, such as the NYC IP, are a danger to the status quo, so much so that almost all the media, including the blogosphere, is ignoring them...
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Terry Hurlbut comes closer than most to capturing the true character of independent voters, if from a conservative view (tipoff -- he talks about NY 23, but not the election of NYC's first independent mayor on the Independence Party line), and questions the major pollsters' analysis. Independents, organized, is what will give independent voters more say in politics and policy... One stop on that road is open primaries, on the ballot in...
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You'll never see what happened last Tuesday looking through a two-party microscope! Nope. You need an independent historyscope to get this one! I had the pleasure of hearing independent strategist Jackie Salit give her analysis of the November elections on Sunday night on her regular national conference call which is attended by around 150 activists around the country every six weeks. Jackie is a long-time independent activist based in New...
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Continued wrap-up commentary of November elections with the addition of some of those wonderful non-partisan independent voices from New Hampshire. Up-tick in self-financed campaigns. Rhode Island has a serious independent candidate and a new third party for 2010. New York's fusion election shows media ignoring NYC Independence Party's 142,817 votes (double the 2005 vote) -- in an election where Dem and Repub votes went down -- and going after...
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ABOVE THE FOLDIndependents are a Sleeping Giant (By Alex Hammer, The Moderate Voice) Twenty-six per cent of Mayor Bloomberg’s re-election votes in New York City this past week — well over 140,000 votes — came on the Independence line and not on the Republican line. Think about that for a minute, and why the national media keep it “hush hush". [Alex Hammer is an independent candidate for Gov of Maine]PHOTO: NYC Independence Party members Ramon...
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OPEN PRIMARIESThe parties will continue to open or close their primaries depending on what they stand to gain or lose in the next election based on media polls. That's why we need national policy that supports a primary voting system that allows independents the right to participate.NC Republican Party Could Limit Primaries -- Move Could Close Primaries To Independents (WXII 12)Republicans consider closing primaries (By MARK BINKER, News...
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Chatter continues about where independent voters are in the countdown to the 2010 midterm elections, this week's theme being the subjective/emotional "state" of independents -- indies are angry, frightened and turning right, say the pundits -- oh, yeah, and anti-incumbent. Poli-Tea started a very interesting and I think important dialog in several posts last week about the impact on independents of the rules the major parties enact to prevent...
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I've decided to give out grades today on the media coverage of independent voters.John Fund gets a D for his midterm paper. While he recognizes that independents are in revolt, he simply regurgitates Repub spin about independents' lack of support for Dems and draws a questionable conclusion: But independent voters are clearly swayed by arguments that the Obama administration and Democratic Congress are moving too far to the left too quickly...
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Thanksgiving is this week. Time to clear out the leftover stalks from the harvest. All those dried leaves from the NJ and VA gov races and the NY-23 congressional race... And the pods from the NYC mayoral (by the way, the final count including paper ballots is 150,000 votes on the Independence Party line). Do we pile them up, burn the field, or mulch and wait? Some of the most interesting things in the field right now are the roots...
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Georgia Independent Voters (“GIV”) – a state-based association of independent voters will hold a press conference announcing endorsement of Atlanta mayoral candidate Kasim Reed. Monday, November 30, 2009 - 10:00 a.m., Atlanta City Hall, 68 Mitchell St SW, Atlanta, GA.Independent voter organization, Georgia Independent Voters (“GIV”), screened mayoral candidates over the summer and endorsed Kasim Reed who won a spot in the runoff election with...
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USA: Steele Speaks Out Against Litmus TestsIn his first comments on an effort to impose a conservative purity test on Republican candidates in the 2010 election, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele stressed the counter-productive nature of litmus tests. The moderate-conservative chairman attempted to play down the controversy of another rift between moderate and conservative Republicans."Litmus tests as a rule are not good, and I think...
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I don't know about you, but I've had it with "BlueDog" Democrats.
They claim to be "fiscal conservatives," but they voted for George Bush's trillion-dollar tax cuts for the rich, which turned President Clinton's $6 trillion projected surplus into Bush's $5 trillion added debt.
They voted for Bush's trillion-dollar invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and spend billions more every month getting our soldiers killed to protect dictators.
And...
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Republicans want to make the 2010 election about jobs.
So what's their plan to create jobs? They will simply repackage their disastrous policies of the past 3 decades: (1) tax cuts for the rich and (2) business deregulation.
Bush's tax cuts for the rich in 2001 and 2003 created the greatest wealth inequality since the Gilded Age, destroyed jobs, and turned President Clinton's projected $6 trillion surplus into $5 trillion in new debt...
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