TN-09: stealth sabotage by Emily's List?

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Thursday September 27, 2007 · 6:41 PM PDT

2007/09/27 · 18:41

A little over a month ago there was a flurry of interest in the 9th Congressional District of Tennessee, where progressive Democratic state legislator Steve Cohen won the 2006 primary and subsequent general election to succeed Congressman Harold Ford, who resigned the seat to run for the US Senate. Several diarists alerted the kossack community to the fact that one of the sore losers among the candidates who lost the 2006 primary was mounting a primary challenge to Cohen. Serious questions were raised about the motive for refusing to accept the verdict of the voters in the 2006 election in diaries such as this one:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Christopher Walker

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Friday June 22, 2007 · 6:41 PM PDT

2007/06/22 · 18:41

Well, in a way, I did. I'm in Washington for the American Library Association annual conference, or cattle stampede. 27,000 librarians, crowding into all the hotels and restaurants. I was lunching by myself on 6th St. The restaurant was both crowded and noisy, and the tables are so close together they're almost touching. When they seated me I discovered I was across from Senator Lieberman at the next table, this close.

He was chatting up a younger woman with stringy dark brown hair. She may have been a political reporter covering the Presidential campaigns, because that's what some of the conversation was about. Oh, don't look shocked. Of course I listened. I didn't have anything else to do, and besides, he was talking loudly because (as I said) the restaurant was noisy.

What was the theme of his discourse? Do you have to guess? It was Poor Joe Lieberman, of course.

Christopher Walker

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 8:11 AM PDT

2007/04/10 · 08:11

As you all know, before we get to the 2008 general election that (quite rightly) occupies so much of our attention and planning skills, there are a few shorter-term goals to keep track of. There have already been a few special elections to fill open seats at various levels of government, and there will be more. And there are several states with elections scheduled for 2007. Virginia, for one, elects delegates to their state legislature this year.

I've just been contacted by a progressive State Assemblyman who will be facing a challenge in the June 12 primary. He needs help, and money.

Christopher Walker

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Wednesday February 21, 2007 · 9:03 AM PST

2007/02/21 · 09:03

An invitation to the first round of voting for a 2008 Progressive Patriot to receive some cash support from Russ Feingold's PAC is in our "In" boxes today. This first slate consists of Democratic freshmen whom Russ Feingold expects may face stiff challenges.

http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com/

The roster is below the fold.

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Jason Altmire (PA-4)

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Nancy Boyda (KS-2)

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Joe Courtney (CT-2)

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John Hall (NY-19)

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Baron Hill (IN-9)

1 vote

Ron Klein (FL-22)

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Dave Loebsack (IA-2)

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Harry Mitchell (AZ-5)

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Patrick Murphy (PA-08)

9 votes

Carol Shea-Porter (NH-1)

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How to take another 32 seats, next time

Christopher Walker

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 6:58 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 06:58

Step one: DCCC raises money as usual, only even more effectively with a winner's smile

Step two: Instead of pumping $3.2 million into a vanity contest in the fiercely expensive IL-06, just because it's next door to Rahm's home district, take that same money, $3.2 million, and divide it into 32 $100,000 chunks Read More

PA-04 Hapless GOP Congresswoman threatened with Donuts!

Christopher Walker

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 4:01 AM PST

2006/10/29 · 04:01

Melissa Hart, GOP incumbent in Pennsylvania's 4th district, wouldn't, in a normal electoral cycle, be in much danger of losing her seat. True, she's a mini-Me version of Orc-on-Dog Santorum, on social issues, but her constituents, alas, don't dislike that. She's a wholly-owned subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry, and even that would pass muster in her sleepy district... except for the Bush Administration's assault on Medicare prescription benefits (courtesy of Nancy Johnson, CT-05, who wrote the final draft of the legislation, I understand). However, seniors do care about social security and prescription drug coverage.

So she called the police on them.
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New Axis of Evil: Exxon & the Club for Growth

Christopher Walker

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 7:47 AM PDT

2006/10/22 · 07:47

If you've read some of my diaries you know that I try to keep a sharp eye on where Exxon/Mobil PAC's bloated profits go. They always go bad places. But this cycle the Club for Growth seems to be influencing where the Exxon/Mobil PAC spends money, as well.

Exxon/Mobil normally devotes most of their largesse to protecting incumbents (including a few Democratic incumbents, I am sorry to say). Each cycle they do select a handful - less than a dozen, sometimes fewer - of challengers to support. When they do support a challenger or a candidate for a seat that's open, they invariably support a Republican. Republicans who were not yet in office, but who received campaign donations from Exxon/Mobil, have included Jim Talent and some other folks who did get in and turned out to be obnoxious.
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Aragorn son of Arathorn, (D) NY-23 w/POLL

Christopher Walker

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 10:14 AM PDT

2006/10/20 · 10:14

Today is Viggo Mortensen's birthday!

Aragorn! ( Also the star of A History of Violence. )

Do you know what Viggo Mortensen wants for his birthday?
Well, most years, neither would I.
But I happen to know what Viggo Mortensen wants for his birthday, this year.

He wants a new Congressman! Read More

Kansas struggles to Evolve, Round Two

Christopher Walker

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 10:11 AM PDT

2006/10/17 · 10:11

I promised to remind the netroots community, when the general election got nearer, about the last two opportunities in the 2006 election cycle to shift control of the Kansas State Board of Education away from religious fundamentalists. The Board has ten members. Five are up for re-election or replacement in 2006. Only one pro-science member (believes in Evolution) was in that group, and she won her primary.

Two of the Creationist incumbents were replaced with pro-Science candidates in the primaries. But two others won their primaries and are running for re-election. Read More

NY-23 Dr Bob Johnson challenges torture

Christopher Walker

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 4:20 PM PDT

2006/10/01 · 16:20

New York's upstate District 23 is currently represented in Congress by Republican incumbent John McHugh. At the beginning of the cycle, the district did not appear to be in contention. The NRCC was not worried about it, and the DCCC was not interested in it. They were content to let the 23rd remain a red backwater, unaffected by the November winds that are going to sweep all the other Republicans out to sea like the flotsam that floated into the Gulf when Katrina roared through the Gulf region and knocked Trent Lott's house flat as a pancake.

Enter our candidate, Dr. Bob Johnson:

http://www.johnsonforcongress.org/
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TX-17 is dead to me w/POLL

Christopher Walker

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 10:29 PM PDT

2006/09/29 · 22:29

By great good fortune or the luck of the draw, of the 11 Democratic senators and 41 Democratic members of the House who voted the wrong way on torture and habeas corpus, there was only one that I was actively supporting: Chet Edwards.

This is the letter I just sent to his campaign:
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IN-HD-30 Dem candidate injured, needs help

Christopher Walker

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 8:04 AM PDT

2006/09/21 · 08:04

Former state rep Ron Herrell, campaigning to reclaim the House District 30 seat that he lost in the 2004 GOP takeover of the Indiana State house, suffered a broken rib and head and face injuries in a traffic accident Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.idsnews.com/...

A Korean War veteran and a former fire-fighter, Ron Herrell served the district for three terms, 1998-2004. His meat-and-potatoes campaign platform focuses on kitchen table issues that are important in his district: education, jobs, health care, and gasoline taxes:

http://www.ronherrell.com/
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