To save my friends in the GOP time.

Thanks for the letting me know, as a couple of you put it, “They got to teach our kids and they can not do simple math”, about Art Dolan’s mail in support of Chris Marr. Now that I have checked my mail box, yes, in the second paragraph of the letter Art incorrectly stated that Laurie Dolan was “600 votes short” in her 2004 campaign. By checking the Spokane County election records for 2004 you can see that Senator Brad Benson (R) got 33,312 (51%) votes vs. Laurie Dolan’s (D) 32,104 (49%) votes. Yes, according to my simple math that is a 1208 vote difference NOT 600.

I also will note, yes indeed, Art send this from a Spokane PO box, even though he no longer lives in Spokane. This also brings up the old issue of Fairfield not being in Washignton State’s 6th Legistive Distircit and the governor’s press release of January 7, 2005 and The Spokesman Review Story, “Gregoire names staff members; Fairfield’s Laurie Dolan will direct” In the governor’s press release the following was stated, “Laurie Dolan of Fairfield as director of the governor’s Executive Policy Office”, so many of you asked me why was Dolan running in the 6th LD saying she lived on the South hill. As I said before, you need to ask her that. But yes, I do know that Fairfield is not in the 6th LD.

To save everyone’s time in the future, there is no need to contact me over what Art and/or Laurie Dolan are/aren’t doing. I ‘ve barely seen them since the headed over to Olympia. I also know that the letter had a poorly scanned signature, but it was not paid for by Doug Dobbins. It was paid for by the Chris Marr for Senate Campaign. For what it’s worth, other than donating some new and used “H” frames for yard signs that probably have a value of a couple hundred dollars, I have not been involved with the Marr for Senate Campaign. And yes, I know that Marr might want to think twice about using the Dolan mailing list since there were a lot of Republican supporters of hers on it tht may not be so willing to support his campaign. I also remind those of you who are not supporting Mr. Marr that he will no doubt raise a bunch of money for this campaign so your efforts will probably be better spent working or donating to Senator Brad Benson to beat him rather than contacting me over campaigns past.

Technorati Tags: Laurie Dolan, Art Dolan, Chris Marr, Brad Benson, Senator Brad Benson, Washington State, Spokane, Fairfield, Christine Gregoire, Governor Christine Gregoire

Vote/Share/Bookmark

As discussed in today’s Daily Source Code, a new company called pod2mob is inserting advertising in their mobile streams of podcasts, all podcasts, without the owner’s consent. Like Curry, I’m hoping lawyers won’t have to be called in, but all podcast producers should be defending their copyrights against this commercial usage of their property.

Technorati Tags: pod2mobile, podcasting, Adam Curry, Daily Source Code

Vote/Share/Bookmark

For the smile clan:

Sen. John Edwards will be speaking at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies at 1:00pm CST. The theme of the talk is, “Restoring the American Dream: Fighting Poverty and Moving More Americans into the Middle Class.” You can watch the webcast here It will be in Windows Media Foramat

The Senator will also visit the Center for Economic Progress in Chicago at 6:15 pm CST to discuss the importance of helping low-income families get the tax refunds they deserve and using the money to start building assets for their families. Representatives from Citibank will be on hand to help many of these families open a bank account.

Technorati Tags: Chicago, John Edwards, Harris School, University of Chicago, Center for Economic Progress

Vote/Share/Bookmark

From AdWeek
By Steve McClellan
March 02, 2006

Former vice president Al Gore launched his keynote address at the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ Media Conference here this morning by promising not to do a commercial for his new cable network, Current TV.

And he didn’t.

Instead, he urged the media industry to contribute airtime to an upcoming public service campaign alerting consumers to the dangers of global warming. Gore spent most of his 20-minute presentation detailing the heavy toll that global warming is taking on the earth’s ecosystem.

He said that a new coalition, to be announced soon, comprised of environmental, labor, religious and other groups would be raising money to make “major ad buys over the next three years” to address global warming.

Gore then asked the media industry to step up with a “dollar for dollar” matching contribution for that campaign. Gore said he was contributing the proceeds from a book and a documentary on the subject (both to be released later this year) to the coalition.

“The climate crisis is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever faced,” he said.
Technorati Tags: Al Gore , Gore, Current TV, Climate Crisis

Vote/Share/Bookmark