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It was an honor to meet Blue America candidate Darcy Burner last night, seen here in this blurry iPhone pic.
Darcy was touched to hear that FDL folks wanted to know how she was after her house was destroyed by fire and said netroots support is what helped her keep going. She lost all her possessions, had to put the campaign on hold for several days to buy clothes and basic provisions.
Her speech, amazingly enough without either note cards or Lieberman tapping on her shoulder to give corrections, covered the gamut from the current financial crisis to Iraq to global warming.
When asked her opinion of Palin, she spoke of her own medically dangerous pregnancy, with gratitude that the choice to continue on and bear her son was a decision that was hers without government interference. She noted that she "couldn’t be more different from Sarah Palin" in honoring a woman’s right to choose in such difficult and personal matters.
Darcy spoke on the restoring some kind of sanity to the Department of Justice, a matter close to the heart of folks in Washington State since fired U.S. Attorney John McKay grew up and served there. She affirmed that DoJ needs to be a neutral, independent referee and not a branch of the Republican Party.
The audience included a lifelong Republican who said he recently registered as a Democrat because his party had gone off the deep end, clearly a painful decision for him. I often speak theoretically about welcoming such folks with a blanket and hot cocoa. These are hurting people who are acting with courage to try something new, because the old way isn’t working any more.
People show courage in a variety of ways. I hope all of us will rise to the occasion on November 4.
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Darcy!
ZED?
Oh WELL
Hey pups! Darcy was awesome. Hope you all have a chance to meet her and learn what she’s gonna to for us in Washington.
thanks egregious
Just my take here is SoCal…more and more people are pissed at the whole concept of McPain.
wow, eg, i can say i knew you before …
thanks for the interview and for sharing it with us
Wow There are all of five of here!
Make that six
EG that was a great interview and I am happy we have some one in Washington who WILL look after our interests and not the BIG BUCK Corporations and the rich!!
egr!
I got an invite, but couldn’t attend. I would have attended if possible. I like Darcy just fine.
Go Darcy!!!
She makes me proud to be from Wa. Unlike Dave Rightwing,er,Reichthart,oh,however you spell Bush’s good buddy’s name.
We think of him as Mr.WTO, master of the Seattle police violence fiasco.
Egregious, Did Marcy say anything about the Bailout?
Oops, That’d be Darcy…!
You’re welcome — it takes the whole team to make this work.
DIGG is Open!!
dugg
Marcy had multitudinous things to say about the bailout. We spent pretty much the whole time going back and forth between giggling and having rants. It was fun.
good night firepups. sleep time
Heh, you slipped up, too… ! ;-)
pain free sleep wishes tex
Aloha, Tex! Pain-Free Sleep Wishes!
eg, is marcy still bunking with you?
Darcy Burner had my vote locked up last year.
We REALLY need some down to earth people like her in the next cycle, I am just sad that not everyone can cast a vote for her like I can.
BTW, anyone that lives in Washington state should be pouring their derision for Dino Rossi out onto the public media.
I am working on one for good old “Dino the Missing Soprano Rossi”.
mr i’m not a republican, i’m a g.o.p rossi is a forking idiot
thankks yall
need to get over this head cold i got frm my kid
Marcy left yesterday. We had such a blast. We both have a midwestern sensibility with coastal snark, understand each other pretty well.
Evening, all…
This is such an important point. Can’t demand retribution…”prodigal son” style acceptance is what is called for here….can’t grab’em by the shoulders and scream, “WHAT WERE YIOU THINKING?”
No matter how much one may wish to.
yeap – admitting one’s belief system in politics is wrong is a very bitter pill to swallow. hot cocoa and a warm welcome instead of jeering derision is the antidote.
Sarah of Arc getting some heat in Alaska….Seems the local folkals are getting a tad peeved at Big Washington Mccain’s campaign flacks running her show now.
Link.
-G
late late nite upstairs
Tell ‘em to have some cocoa and STFU.
I agree. Though pouring my derision cost me a couple of long time friends recently. Their Dino signs were more than I could take. Had to break the unspoken “rule” not to talk politics.
I may have been out of line in suggesting that those signs made them appear to be tools of the very system that was sucking our Constitution dry. Though I prefaced that with complimenting them on their Ron Paul signs,i.e. defending the Constitution….
oh,well. Unfortunately, there are lots of folks in our neck of the woods who proudly maintain their ignorance and put up whatever signs the neighbors say they should put up. Republican by birth…not by knowledge of the issues.
Yea Darcy!
I was there, too! (You sat next to me, egregious) It was wonderful meeting a a heroine of mine. She’s geeky and cool and isn’t shy about being an antiwar liberal. And she can talk Unix. If elected, she might be the first geek to serve in Congress.
I really liked the discussion towards the end about what voters respond to. I now know why I always see political fliers where the candidate poses with their dog. I can only hope that that’s just the teaser. Once they see the golden retriever, they’ll want to know Darcy’s position on Iraq, the govt bailout/giveaway, education, the environment (yay polar bears!), and energy.