I just received an email from the Darcy Burner Campaign and thought I would share it with you:

Thank you for taking the time to write and for your previous contributions.

Sandeep was not speaking for Darcy or for the campaign when he said what he said. If we are going to reclaim our country and right its course, it will take a broad-based movement, including the blogs, working together to get it done. Darcy knows and honors that.

We are truly sorry that a part-time political consultant associated with this campaign said things to a college student which reflects poorly on Darcy and her campaign. Please know that they do not reflect her views.

We hope for you continued support and please feel free to contact the campaign at anytime.

Lynn

Lynn Allen
425.467.1183
Outreach Director
Darcy Burner for Congress

Talk about a lynch mob. Jesus Christ on a Triscuit, give Darcy a chance to speak! I’ve contributed to Darcy’s campaign. I’m anxious as anyone to see Deputy Dave get his walking papers, but this is NO way to do it. You folks turned on her so quick, I felt the breeze here in Seattle.

You read one god damn article! One freaking article! Yes, it was PUBLISHED. Does that make it the word of God? His words were surrounded by prose from the author. They were shaped to send a message to the ‘netroots’ and boy did you guys respond. Pavlov’s dogs got nothin’ on you all.

I’m a voter in her district and a campaign contributer. I will wait to see what she says. In the meantime, I’m going to contact some of the local bloggers to see if we can salvage anything from all of this.

Darcy’s man said some things that in a different context would have been no big deal. They get framed as a dig at the Blogs and FDL wants to drag her out to the town square and string her up.

How are we going to make any change in this country if this is the kind of political Tourrett’s our leaders can expect from us? Who’s going to want to represent us if we fly off the handle at the smallest thing?

Be reasonable, wait for the statement from the campaign but mostly, chill the fuck out.

- This is the opinion of one part-time campaign consultant for the campaign. Has Burner given anyone any other reason to assume she was kicking the netroots to the curb?

- I’ve seen this play before – taking a little bit of information and then flying off the handle about it.

Wake me up when there’s a pattern to Burner’s actions that indicates she’s changed heart. For now, I’m just going to assume that this character is trying to make Mudcat Saunders look like a genius and leave it at that.

Dear Darcy

Recent comments from your campaign (Sandeep) seem to be giving the straight arm (or is it a finger) to the “populist progressive” elements of the blogosphere who have supported you overwhelmingly. Where do you stand? With him, or with us? Is he going for a Sistah Soljah moment?

Awaiting your comment.

Thank you for taking the time to write.

Sandeep was not speaking for Darcy or for the campaign when he said what he said. If we are going to reclaim our country and right its course, it will take a broad-based movement, including the blogs, working together to get it done.

We are truly sorry that a part-time political consultant associated with this campaign said things to a college student which reflects poorly on Darcy and her campaign. Please know that they do not reflect her views.

We hope for you continued support and please feel free to contact the campaign at anytime.

Lynn

Lynn Allen
425.467.1183
Outreach Director
Darcy Burner for Congress

Hello Darcy,

I hope you read the interview with your operative in the UW paper. And follow the reaction in the blogosphere!

Here he is reported to have stated…

“As as pressure group on the Democratic Party, Kaushik said bloggers push their own agenda, and that doesn’t always agree with the party leadership, combining elements of a political movement with the behavior of a traditional constituency group.”

Good God! Why would anybody care what the party leadership wants – they are demonstrated failures and Bush enablers! Why do you think we want you in there instead? I’ll spell it out.

* We want you to go to Congress and change the Party Leadership completely.

Here he shows he does not know the basic history of the Lamont/Leiberman contest:

“He points to Lamont and his candidate’s campaign as examples of the bloggers’ limitations.”

Lamont won the Democratic primary which defeated Leiberman completely. Bloggers helped and they won big time. It was only Bad State Law that allowed Leiberman to run as an Independent (defacto Republican) after losing his race, that made this possible.

And here, it gets even worse…

“Part of my job is making sure people know the blogosphere is not the campaign,” he said.

Which “people” think the blogosphere is the campaign? Nobody with a brain. To that I can only respond:

* As a member of the community who reads blogs because the “real” Media is useless, it is part of my job to Not Give You another Dime again until you fire this idiot.

Best of luck to you – but if you don’t improve the quality of your advisors fast, your campaign will be just as unsuccessful as it was last time.