Enough Talking. Do Something. Flip the Senate.
Kari Chisholm
The good folks over at Onward Oregon (like MoveOn, but for Oregon), just dropped this excellent analysis/action item in our inbox:
Our government in Salem would be funny if it weren't so sad.
The House is run by anti-government "leaders" who fiddle with wacky statutes while our schools fight fires. Our best hope is to make sure that our Senate is not controlled by the same crew as the House. Lucky for us, a Senate majority is up for grabs.
We've identified 3 tight-but-winnable Senate races:
1. Alan Bates, Oregon Senate - Dist. 03, Ashland Area - (541) 482-1427, AlanBates.net
2. Joanne Verger, Oregon Senate - Dist. 05, Coos Bay Area - (541) 267-5197, Verger2004.com
3. Laurie Monnes Anderson, Oregon Senate - Dist. 25, Gresham/Troutdale - (503) 667-3909, LaurieMonnesAnderson.com
Wins here should ensure that Republicans are in the minority, unable to dictate the agenda.
The action item? Buy a $5 raffle ticket. The big prize is a great-looking quilt, volunteer-crafted for Onward Oregon. (Now, I'm personally not a quilt guy, but $5 multiplied by thousands of BlueOregonians can go a LONG way...)
Help keep Oregon Blue. Buy a raffle ticket here. The drawing is October 15.
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Oct 12, '04
The rapidly evolving tactics made by internet coordination for campaigns, political and otherwise, is a sight of wonder. Here coordinating three senate races by one raffle proceeds. Dem's creativity always was a winner against Rep's mastery.
I want to piggyback my favorite charity donation on top of the five bucks here for a great quilt, (I know from quilts). Everybody: Pitch some pay to the piper KBOO 90.7 FM and, streaming, www.KBOO.org
This Portland radio station, (with repeaters up the Gorge and down in Corvallis), is an institution. The oldest pledge - volunteer - non-commercial station on air, in the country. (Since 1968, I think -- pre-Woodstock, for those who need some bearings of the times.)
And they are having a miserable pledge week. Really suffering since AirAmericaRadio came to town. People, KBOO is our peeps. Potter for mayor hinted his administration could maybe resurrect the BOO Ball public Halloween party thing, (for neo arrivistes, the BOO Ball is a good ghost to resurrect). The Ball was the mainstay promo hook the station hung its recruitment on for years.
Pass it around. Tax deductible. $20's for KBOO. All you out there on the internet around the world -- you can listen, too, and send $upport. $hare the love.
The radio programming has my favorite parts weekdays, call-in talk radio, 7:30 am - 9:00 am PacTime, (15:30 - 17:00 GMT), and might say it has elected a few blue senators too. Before the rightwing midday minarette monsters get out of bed.
The mighty 'BOO. Blue through and through. Pay its due.
<h1></h1>Oct 12, '04
Here's the NY Times' erudite pastoralist doing Thurber on web browsers, apropos of my earlier comment about rapidly evolving internet facility and the tactics it can accomplish.
To flip the state Senate, or the House, and a lot else, just find a common comfortable link between the people involved, communicating on the internet.
(I just like Klinkenborg's wording words.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/opinion/11mon3.html?pagewanted=print&position=
[full article deleted as a copyright violation. -ed.]
Oct 12, '04
Kari is so totally a quilt guy. I don't believe him when he says he isn't.
7:34 p.m.
Oct 12, '04
Yeah... Look, if I win it, I'm donating it somewhere.
9:29 p.m.
Oct 12, '04
Rorovitz wrote: Kari is so totally a quilt guy. I don't believe him when he says he isn't.
Then Kari responded: Yeah... Look, if I win it, I'm donating it somewhere.
LOL. C'mon K, really? Not a quilt guy? ;-) OK, OK, in your defense, you're really not a quilt guy. Try as I might (and believe me, I did - for a whole 30 seconds), I just can't put you in the "quilt guy" category - not even for fun.
Should you win, you could use it as a doggy blanket or something... of course I'm sure the quilt's crafters might take offense to that. Maybe your mom would like it. One Christmas gift down... ;-)
Oct 13, '04
Sure Kari. ;-) I believe you. Really. No, really I do.
Oct 13, '04
Kari, can you get that audio clip from the Randi Rhodes Show on Air America Radio? Liars Larson called-in to Rhodes, on-air, and she has a clip of the call, with Liars saying 'what's the problem?' and Rhodes saying, 'the deal is you are gone, I'm here now -- bye-bye.'
It is the best thing you ever heard if you ever wanted to hear Liars cut off with the dump button. I'm mad I missed the original airing, (must have been last Thur or Fri), and all I heard is a snippet she is using in a promo for Rhodes' show.
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