Comments on: Meet Anthony Woods, Progressive Candidate For Congress In The Bay Area Special Election http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:44:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920424 Teddy Partridge Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:07:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920424 <p>Thank you for devoting some time today to answering our questions, sir.</p> <p>Good luck — we’ll be watching, and I bet some of us will stay in touch as well.</p> Thank you for devoting some time today to answering our questions, sir.

Good luck — we’ll be watching, and I bet some of us will stay in touch as well.

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920423 Raven Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:01:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920423 <p>Hooah!</p> Hooah!

]]> By: AnthonyWoods http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920422 AnthonyWoods Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:00:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920422 <p>Thank you everyone. </p> <p>I’ve talked about accountability and staying connected to those who send you to Washington. If you’d have me, I’d love to continue doing this from time to time both as a candidate and in Congress. </p> <p>I meant what I said about “crowdsourcing” ideas. Please send thoughts and ideas you think will be helpful to the campaign or beyond. </p> <p>Please stay in touch through <a href="http://www.AnthonyWoodsForCongress.com" rel="nofollow">www.AnthonyWoodsForCongress.com</a> and continue to follow the campaign on facebook and twitter. </p> <p>Off to a block party with former Obama volunteers. Thanks for your time today!</p> <p>Anthony Woods<br /> Candidate – California’s 10th Congressional District</p> Thank you everyone.

I’ve talked about accountability and staying connected to those who send you to Washington. If you’d have me, I’d love to continue doing this from time to time both as a candidate and in Congress.

I meant what I said about “crowdsourcing” ideas. Please send thoughts and ideas you think will be helpful to the campaign or beyond.

Please stay in touch through http://www.AnthonyWoodsForCongress.com and continue to follow the campaign on facebook and twitter.

Off to a block party with former Obama volunteers. Thanks for your time today!

Anthony Woods
Candidate – California’s 10th Congressional District

]]> By: Howie Klein http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920421 Howie Klein Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:59:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920421 <p>Thanks for spending the time with us today, Anthony. Let’s stay in touch so we can follow the progress of this race.</p> <p>I also want to remind everyone that <a href="http://www.actblue.com/page/healthcarechoice" rel="nofollow">Blue America’s first fundraiser of 2009</a> is going on now. Jane, Digby, John and I are trying to raise some money to blanket the Arkansas airwaves with TV spots so that the voters there are 100% aware of Blanche Lincoln’s opposition to health care reform– and about her relationship to the Insurance Industry. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, who’s making the spots this week, said that Digby’s scripts are Academy Award quality. Remember, even $5 and $10 donations are welcomed– and very much appreciated; that’s how we’ve managed to raise the money to go forward so far.</p> Thanks for spending the time with us today, Anthony. Let’s stay in touch so we can follow the progress of this race.

I also want to remind everyone that Blue America’s first fundraiser of 2009 is going on now. Jane, Digby, John and I are trying to raise some money to blanket the Arkansas airwaves with TV spots so that the voters there are 100% aware of Blanche Lincoln’s opposition to health care reform– and about her relationship to the Insurance Industry. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films, who’s making the spots this week, said that Digby’s scripts are Academy Award quality. Remember, even $5 and $10 donations are welcomed– and very much appreciated; that’s how we’ve managed to raise the money to go forward so far.

]]> By: AnthonyWoods http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920420 AnthonyWoods Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:55:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920420 <p>Teddy - we’re developing a policy paper on this right now. Any information you can send on this would be helpful. I think Congress should seriously consider a temporary moratorium on foreclosures, smart changes to refinancing regulations, and limits on mortgage resets. People need to understand the tremendous cost to the entire community when neighbors are forced into foreclosure. Taxpayers are now paying hundreds of billions because of the breakdown in the financial services sector and the faulty mortgage products that were sold.</p> Teddy – we’re developing a policy paper on this right now. Any information you can send on this would be helpful. I think Congress should seriously consider a temporary moratorium on foreclosures, smart changes to refinancing regulations, and limits on mortgage resets. People need to understand the tremendous cost to the entire community when neighbors are forced into foreclosure. Taxpayers are now paying hundreds of billions because of the breakdown in the financial services sector and the faulty mortgage products that were sold.

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920419 Teddy Partridge Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:48:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920419 <p>There’s a whole other mortgage crisis coming, too, as ALT-A loans reset to higher rates in the next year, just as people’s work hours are cut or one breadwinner gets laid off. The rosy “green shoots” discussions in DC and Wall Street are wishful thinking — there’s more pain coming, and our national legislature is the captive of the banks, as Dick Durbin said. We’ll need more help, especially mortgage cramdown authority for bankruptcy judges (who already have that authority for second homes, why not first homes?) </p> <p>Very few people are paying attention to this coming wave, or to the escalating defaults in commercial paper, but Duncan Black (Atrios) and Calculated Risk are trying to sound the alarm. Of course, they were right in predicting the size and scale of our current disaster, so no Very Serious People are paying attention to them now.</p> <p>What additional steps do you think Congress will need to take to actually help affected people in the next wave, and not simply bail out Wall Street again?</p> There’s a whole other mortgage crisis coming, too, as ALT-A loans reset to higher rates in the next year, just as people’s work hours are cut or one breadwinner gets laid off. The rosy “green shoots” discussions in DC and Wall Street are wishful thinking — there’s more pain coming, and our national legislature is the captive of the banks, as Dick Durbin said. We’ll need more help, especially mortgage cramdown authority for bankruptcy judges (who already have that authority for second homes, why not first homes?)

Very few people are paying attention to this coming wave, or to the escalating defaults in commercial paper, but Duncan Black (Atrios) and Calculated Risk are trying to sound the alarm. Of course, they were right in predicting the size and scale of our current disaster, so no Very Serious People are paying attention to them now.

What additional steps do you think Congress will need to take to actually help affected people in the next wave, and not simply bail out Wall Street again?

]]> By: AnthonyWoods http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920418 AnthonyWoods Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:46:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920418 <p>Valley Girl - Thank you so much. I really appreciate everything you’ve done and all that everyone else has done. This has been a really great experience for me today.</p> Valley Girl – Thank you so much. I really appreciate everything you’ve done and all that everyone else has done. This has been a really great experience for me today.

]]> By: AnthonyWoods http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920417 AnthonyWoods Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:44:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920417 <p>Teddy - Tauscher has already endorsed State Senator Mark DeSaulnier. However, the DCCC and others appear to be sitting this one out. But, its early still and we’re working hard to build up netroots support and so far we’ve got more actblue contributors than all of the components combined and are also focusing on social networking.</p> <p>If you’re on facebook, you can join us there: </p> <p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503078722&ref=profile#/Woods.Anthony" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/profil.....ds.Anthony</a></p> Teddy – Tauscher has already endorsed State Senator Mark DeSaulnier. However, the DCCC and others appear to be sitting this one out. But, its early still and we’re working hard to build up netroots support and so far we’ve got more actblue contributors than all of the components combined and are also focusing on social networking.

If you’re on facebook, you can join us there:

http://www.facebook.com/profil…..ds.Anthony

]]> By: Twain http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920416 Twain Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920416 <p>Can’t imagine Rahm not pushing Garamendi who has fed at the public trough and run for every office forever.<br /> He’s not very bright.</p> Can’t imagine Rahm not pushing Garamendi who has fed at the public trough and run for every office forever.
He’s not very bright.

]]> By: Valley Girl http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920415 Valley Girl Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:42:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/20/meet-anthony-woods-progressive-candidate-for-congress-in-the-bay-area-special-election/#comment-1920415 <p>Anthony, let me say that I’m one of those people who doesn’t have a lot of extra $$. And, even as much as I respect Howie, I am fairly picky about the BA candidates I donate to. But, I feel really good about my (sorry so tiny) donation to you. It’s a gut instinct thing. It’s been a pleasure reading your responses. Thanks.</p> Anthony, let me say that I’m one of those people who doesn’t have a lot of extra $$. And, even as much as I respect Howie, I am fairly picky about the BA candidates I donate to. But, I feel really good about my (sorry so tiny) donation to you. It’s a gut instinct thing. It’s been a pleasure reading your responses. Thanks.

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