The Abramoff 53 = BIG GOP Trouble. And you can Help!
I've been swimming in corruption. I've been reviewing old Jack Abramoff files, documents and news clips. Not surprisingly, the number of Republicans with ties to Jack Abramoff and the Slush Fund behind...
View ArticleThe Abramoff 64 + 34 Competitive Races = BIG GOP Trouble
Perhaps Jack Abramoff said it best:"Any important Republican who comes out and says they didn't know me is almost certainly lying," he says. Such lies are not just, well, lies, but dumb to boot, he...
View ArticleOH-18: Momentum Building for Zack Space; Bob Ney's Hand-Picked Successor Worried
The excitement is palpable tonight at Zack Space for Congress headquarters. We have had volunteers in and out of the office all day. The sound of their voices making calls, typing away at keyboards,...
View Article(OH-18) Joy Padgett Can't Find Any Friends
Short diary. Forgive me, but I wanted to flag this Washington Post story for the community: Joy Padgett, the GOP's new congressional candidate in Ohio, has been in a jam when it comes to finding a...
View ArticleACTION: How to use Abramoff to WIN in November (See CA-04)
It is a big news day, so it is the perfect day for the White House to release another snippet of their endless contacts with Jack Abramoff and support for his clients, whims and wishes. Now there are...
View ArticleMy Daily Donation | E-36 | $20 to Zack Space
Every day until the election I'm making a contribution to a new candidate, announcing it here on Daily Kos, and encouraging you to join me. If one person matches my contribution on my ActBlue page,...
View ArticleOH-18: $1,684,477.62 Updated
That's right $1,684,477.62 spent as of 10/9/6 by the NRCC. A Congressional District that Tom "I know nothing, but look at all these kids" Reynolds described as A ruby red Republican district. According...
View ArticleOH-18 Ney should resign Friday, every DEM can mention it
Story from the Hill below the fold. Ney's court hearing is Friday. Republican leadership knows he is guilty but has allowed him to keep his seat. Why he is still on the TAXPAYER payroll, at a cost of...
View ArticleWhy a Poor College Student Would Part with Over $1,000 (First Time Diarist)
I am a 20-year old college student. I eat ramen. I work full time despite the fact that I am a full time student because I need the money to pay for school costs, rent, utilities, etc. So.....what...
View ArticleOH-18: NRCC $2,393,514.60 and counting...
Last tuesday, I typed up a litle diary noting that the NRCC had dumped $1,684,477.62 into the race against Zack Space since september. The NRCC have been dumping money into this race so fast, in fact...
View ArticleHOUSE: 3 Weeks, 6 House Candidates to Support!!!
I put together the following list of Dem House candidates that I think the online netroots community at DKos and beyond should support in these final 21 days before the election, based on two criteria:...
View ArticleNon-partisan Vets Group Endorses mostly Dem Candidates (w/poll)
Monday, October 16, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NATIONAL CONTACT: Matt Cary, President Tel: (202) 841-1687 president@vmfp.org 21st Century non-partisan,...
View ArticleBringing the Blind Pigs of the GOP to Market
There's a great story in the Albany Times Union today about John Sweeney (NY-20) and his work to help Jack Abramoff and his sweatshop owning patrons on the Mariana Islands. There is a lot in the story,...
View ArticleOH-18th Need Volunteer's Now until the Election (An Open Thread)
The Ohio democratic party is looking to organize volunteer lists for the next three weeks in and around the 18th district. If you or someone you know would like to canvass or volunteer with us in the...
View ArticleOH-18: NRCC $3,153,072.33 and counting
268,420 is the total number of voters in the 2004 race for OH-18. $3,153,072.33 is the total spent by the NRCC in OH-18 as of 10/25/06. When we put the two numbers together we see that the NRCC has...
View ArticleWhy I'm NOT boycotting Victoria's Secret
Here's a rumor around flying Ohio today (I got it in two different emails):The Republicans have chosen the Mary Jo Kilroy, Zach Space and Bob Shamansky races as their National GOTV Firewall efforts....
View ArticleOH-18th Open Thread
Zack Space and Joy Padgett just debated on a local AM radio station. The 18th was the district now filled by Bob Ney. This is an open thread.
View ArticleOH-18: Republicans Lie?? R. Novakula
With some good news coming out in the last few days like the NRCC is pulling funds from the district AP and todays poll showing Zack Space at 58% vs Padgetts 33% Washington Post I came across what was...
View Article"I don't trust their morals"
Those words will echo in my brain for eternity. I was making Calls for Change earlier this evening. We in the Cleveland office were fortunate to be calling on behalf of Zack Space, running in OH-18. So...
View ArticleTop Ten Endangered House Freshmen
They aren’t even sworn in yet, and the handicappers are ready to write their political obituaries. So goes life in Washington, I suppose. And, truth be told, here on Daily Kos, too. Chris Cillizza of...
View ArticleFundraising for Freshman Democrats: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Hill published an article highlighting some of the fundraising efforts of freshmen Democrats in the House. Apparently, many are doing quite well. David Loebsack (IA-02) has raised about $71,000....
View ArticleRahm Emanuel Tells Dems to Stay Off Colbert (no joke)
If this doesn't prove the idiocy of DLC Democrats like Rahm Emanuel, nothing will: Emanuel is telling Dems to stay off of the Colbert Report.Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the Democratic Caucus chairman,...
View ArticleRove Roving Brings Him to FLA
Of all the place you'd expect to see Karl Rove pushing the company line, you probably wouldn't guess the Best Western in Punta Gorda, Florida. But that's exactly where Bush's Brain was on Saturday...
View ArticleThe Freshman get Unruly
A large group of Freshman Democrats know that one of they keys to their election in 2006 was changing the meaning of "business-as-usual" on Capitol Hill, whether that meant ending the Bush rubberstamp...
View ArticleMoyers features freshmen on ethics
The excellent "Bill Moyers Journal," thankfully back on PBS, had a segment on Congressional ethics Friday that featured three freshmen who may not be in the House today, but for the disgraceful ethical...
View ArticleDEFUND CHENEY: dem reps who voted against
rahm emanuel's amendment to the appropriations bill (HR 2829) failed by a vote of 209-217. had five of the twenty-four democratic representatives below voted differently, it would have passed.Melissa...
View ArticleRepublicans swift boating Rep. Zach Space(OH-18)
Republicans are already out with a swiftboat style attack on Freshman Democrat Zach Space of OH-18. They are attacking him for allegedly switching his vote from Yes to No on a ridiculous Republican...
View ArticleGOP chaos now extending to the House (OH-18, GA-8, GA-12, VA-11, CA-4, CT-4)
Senate Republicans have not been doing well for a while now. But the GOP's disarray is now extending to the House! The series of Republicans congressmen (Pryce, Hastert, LaHood, Peckering, ...)...
View ArticleObama Campaign Pictorial (2006)
Washington Post, 11/7/06: The popular senator from Illinois, who has barnstormed the country on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial and congressional candidates, is one of the A-list political...
View ArticleFocus On...OHIO!!! (New Series: Every State, Every Race)
Every State. Every race. Right here.This is number eleven in a planned series of 50 entries between now and November, looking at each of the 50 states in terms of every race on that state's...
View ArticleNews from the Opening of Obama's office in OH-18th
Last night we attended the Grand Opening of the Obama office in New Philadelphia, the Ohio 18th Congressional District. There was about 200 people. Congressman Zack Space spoke and had some very...
View ArticleWOW! I Just met the next President!!!
I am so excited, Barack just held a Q&A after some short remarks at the New Phiadelphia, Ohio campus of Kent State University. We were so excited that he chose to stop by enroute to Dillionville,...
View ArticleObama in Chillicothe & Columbus (mega pics)
Here's a collection of my photos of two Ohio Obama rallies in one day today, the first at 10am in Chillicothe and the second in Columbus at 1:30. Chillicothe is 60 miles south of Columbus & was the...
View ArticlePalin Goes Non-Nuclear in Chillicothe, Ohio
Sarah Palin spoke to a chilled crowd in Chillicothe, Ohio, this afternoon, on the very same courthouse steps where Barack Obama addressed a somewhat larger and far more diverse rally, about three...
View ArticleSenate 2010: Ohio
This is the first in what will be a series of diaries previewing the Senate seats that may be competitive in 2010. This is the last cycle that we will be on "offense" before we need to revert back...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Voinovich Officially Retires
Christmas is coming a little late for DSCC Chairman Robert Menendez:Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio will not seek re-election in 2010.Voinovich said in a statement Monday that the challenges facing the...
View ArticleOhio Rep Chased by Koran-Burning Extremist & Fox News
What in the world happened in Zanesville, Ohio yesterday? In one evening, this town of 25,000 saw a Tea Party, an entirely separate protest with a 70 foot hot air balloon and a Koran-burning extremist...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Room is a Democrat: The Troubles in Ohio
If you're not wondering what's going on within the Democratic Party of Ohio, you're not following the news. A spectacular series of corruption scandals in the most heavily Democratic counties --...
View ArticleFrom Hope to Hold Your Nose: An Appalachian Manifesto on Health Care Reform
We have heard from every side on the Internet. We have not heard from the side of those not on the Internet, those who need health care most, the poor. I am tired of hearing about how competing...
View ArticleWhat Massachusetts Means for Ohio
Many important races will be decided next November, but as our old state slogan goes, "Ohio is the Heart of it All." (It's a triple play on the shape of the state, it's central location, and Ohio's...
View ArticleBREAKING: Zack Space (D-OH) to vote NO
Finally, after all the waiting and hedging, the once Blue Dog champion of the public option betrays us all. I worked on him hard. I will now be working for his Republican opponent OK, that was out of...
View ArticleOH Labor to Blue Dog Space: "We're not gonna take it"
Yesterday, over 100 grassroots labor activists from OH 18 gathered in Newcomerstown OH to send a message to Zack Space (D OH 18) about being the lone Ohio Democratic to vote against health care reform....
View ArticleCongress Hinges on Ohio and Ohio is Coming Unhinged
If control of the House and/or Senate flips to Republicans narrowly, it will be because of lost seats and lost opportunities in Ohio. Five of Ohio's ten Democratic Representatives are in...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 9/21
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •MA-Sen: In case you missed it, Public Policy Polling released a stunning...
View ArticleDaily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Kentucky Democrats unveil two...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •KY Redistricting: Kentucky's been one of the laggard states when it comes...
View ArticleDoubling the House: Ohio
For any who may be reading one of my diaries for the first time: this is a thought experiment where I try to see what would happen if the size of the House of Representatives were doubled to 870...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Nevada Democrats beg Danny Tarkanian not to throw them into...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: 'The fix is in': Bitter charges follow GOP's choice to...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Check out our roundup of 1Q 2021 fundraising reports for the...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
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