Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Today, the EPA declared “carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.” This is a huge step forward from the Bush administration’s stonewalling on this issue.
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Posted on January 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President-elect Obama has launched Obama 2.0, otherwise known as “Organizing for America”:
Marc Ambinder notes:
An Obama political aide said that OFA will be housed at the Democratic National Committee, resolving a longstanding debate about whether the entity should be separate.
A press release prepared by OFA calls the organization “the next phase” of the Obama organization, and [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
International Medical Corps won $100,00, with our help, that will assist them in continuing child hunger relief projects around the world. Over 14,000 individual American Express cardholders voted for IMC. Thousands of emails were sent to create a viral impact and 200 blogs, including The Democratic Daily’s article, pitched in to help spread the message. [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Earlier today I posted on Hillary Clinton’s response to the RNC ad using her words against Barack Obama, as reported by Ben Smith on Politico today. Here’s the video clip:
And here’s the official press release:
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The official transcript from “The War Room” is now available. Mickey Kantor “never impugned Hoosiers.”
Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker write: “We would like to respond to some erroneous statements made today about our film, THE WAR ROOM. These statements alleged certain remarks to Mickey Kantor that simply are not true. The transcript of [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Clinton campaign announced on Friday that Rick, Louis, Ben and Bill Bolaños were endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. They were named National Co-Chairs of Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary.
The Bolaños family is the only family in the U.S. to ever have four brothers serve in the Vietnam war at the same time. In 1966, Rick Bolaños joined [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
TPMmuckracker reported earlier that “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) cloture vote failed 48-45,” the vote was “well short of the 60 votes necessary.”
In the end, four Dems crossed over to vote with the Republicans: Sens. Mark Pryor (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) was the lone [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Worthy of mention here… Today, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act, to give more support to foster families, foster children, and young adults transitioning from the foster care system into adulthood. Right now, one-fifth of foster children wind up being homeless adults.
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
TNR has a piece on Ron Paul today that should be a wake up call on “The bigoted past of Ron Paul.” Here’s a quip:
Paul’s alliance with neo-Confederates helps explain the views his newsletters have long espoused on race. Take, for instance, a special issue of the Ron Paul Political Report, published in June 1992, [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I received the press release below from Emily’s List a while ago. Reading through it, I was very impressed with the rather unprecedented effort they put into their GOTV effort for Hillary Clinton in Iowa particularly with women who had no history of caucus participation. This is a very important voting block that is so [...]
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