Comments on: Blue America Needs Your Ten Bucks!

By: danielgoldstein

danielgoldstein — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:01:11 +0000

Thanks for this post. Nice Job.

I also want to make a plug here for Dennis Shulman. He’s running in NJ-5 against Scott Garrett, an extreme Republican ideologue that is way out of touch with his moderate constituency in the district. Check him out and spread this word. Shulman is the type of candidate that makes me proud to call myself a progressive.

By: glennmcgahee

glennmcgahee — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:28:28 +0000

Whats a KOS?

By: neurophius

neurophius — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:24:53 +0000

Hardball (second showing) just showed tape of Bush getting booed at the ball game…LOL…

I wonder if he had armor on under that Nationals jacket…

By: neurophius

neurophius — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:23:34 +0000

Thanks, Jim.

Hope he turns out to be a good one.

By: JimWhite

JimWhite — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:15:17 +0000

Running against Republican Cliff Stearns. He’s one of the worst Bush rubber-stampers around. He has strong ties to the telecom community, so I’d love to see him attacked on retroactive immunity and warrantless wiretapping. The district has a lot of rural conservative people, but I think they will understand privacy issues. It also is home to the University of Florida, so there are a number of professionals in the district, too. About the only time Stearns has come into the national spotlight is when he joined a few other wingnut congresscritters in chastising PBS when Sesame Street in South Africa came out with an HIV positive character.
I knew the site was under construction, but I just wanted to get the name out there. I know nothing about the candidate but did email to the info address to ask for position information. A quick note in the Gainesville paper this week about him attempting to qualify for the ballot misspelled his name.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:13:59 +0000

FWIW, I’ve found that if I attempt to reply while the site is processing/loading, the reply doesn’t always take.

By: neurophius

neurophius — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:07:36 +0000

That comment was in response to 34 above. I’m having trouble with my “replies” not showing up as “replies.”

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:05:27 +0000

Wow, OldDog! Glad you “de-lurked,” and we hope you’ll not be a stranger.

By: neurophius

neurophius — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:04:57 +0000

Running against whom, Jim? (Your link leads to a site under construction)

By: Valley Girl

Valley Girl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:04:33 +0000

Boo- Blue America is one of many sites under the larger site http://www.actblue.com/ So any credit card problems you had (I did the same thing once, too) have nothing to do with BA per se, rather with the way Act Blue is set up.

And, btw, the tip goes to Act Blue, not Blue America. Act Blue sends 100% of the $ to the candidate, and the tips go to keep the site up and running, and to pay their staff.

Blue America does not get tips. Howie and everyone else who works for BA does it on a totally voluntary time-donated basis. If you google around you can find the FEC reports that Howie has filed. At one point he had to EXPLAIN to the FEC why BA had no costs and no overheads. Quite unusual!