im supposed to be finishing another story tonight but ive just come from darcy burners primary night party...and i have in front of me the results of the important races tonight in washingtons newfangled top two primary. it is unfair to extrapolate the results of elections in the peoples republic of washington directly onto a national map but as i look as these results it seems fair to say th...
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almost every tuesday is primary day somewhere it seems and today wyoming and washington state get the honors. the most hotly contested primary race of interest is the republican race in wyomings atlarge u.s. house district where republican barbara cubins retirement has created an exciting openseat race. orange to blue democrat gary trauner is the democratic nominee while four republicans two of th...
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today is primary day in the great state of washington and one of our endorsed candidates is on the ballot.darcy burner is everything we could want in a candidate progressive committed to bold and transformative change curious intelligent the next generation of congressional leaders. darcy burner is right on the issues.the first one listed on her issues page is on upholding the constitutionevery m...
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while darcy burner is unopposed in her primary election tomorrow the race will still provide a bit of a preview for november. washington state has adopted a ridiculous toptwo primary system with every candidate listed on the ballot and their party preference indicated rather than a real party identification. the top two vote getters from tomorrows primary will advance on to the general electionin ...
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darcy burners strong campaign and phenomenal fundraising has the republican incumbent reichert and his gop buddies more than a little concerned. which has led them to a really not politically smart effort just before the august recess a group of wellconnected young republicans calling themselves club 218 attempted to make up the difference arranging a fundraiser for reichert according to news repo...
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surveyusa. 72730. likely voters. moe 3.8 618 results reichert r 50 51 burner d 44 45 just some float within the moe this thing remains tight. independents split 4545 while 16 percent of democrats still support reichert. bringing those voters home will be important for burners chances of victory and to do that shell need cash to deliver her message to her districts voters. its the end of the mont...
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big news on the ad buy front today as the democratic congressional campaign committee announced more ad buys today including 2.7 million for ad buys in ny25 ny26 and ny29. the fixs chris cillizza has the story.moving quickly to capitalize on their massive financial advantage the democratic congressional campaign committee has reserved television time in nearly two dozen more house districts bringi...
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this is congressional candidate annette tadeo and darcy burner. tadeo is running for congress in floridas 18th which represents the florida keys and south beach among other areas. her opponent ileana ros lehtinen is a reliable republican notable for her strong relationship with scientology. ros lehtinen has promoted legislation for the church and is a large recipient of funds from a scientology af...
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dick cheney is coming back to town on august 1 to raise money for jeff sessions and other republican congressional candidates. i note hes going to a slightly snazzier venue this time shoal creek rather than the club but hes cut the asking price in half. last time those luncheon tickets were 1000 each but this time you can see him for the bargain price of 500. or 2000 if you want to have your pi...
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it would be impossible to write a diary every time i learn something interesting in texas that might come in handy back in new jersey. but ive taken notes as the day is progressing and im happy to sharestate legislative candidates in new jersey can now use actblue to raise money. it used to be that actblue found our elec rules too byzantine to bother with and nj was one of the few places unable to...
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tuesday was a bad day for wa08 candidate darcy burner. her house went up in flames. she and her family barely escaped before the raging fire engulfed just about all her possessions and unfortunately killed her cat. the family dog somehow managed to survive despite being caught inside the house while it burned down.that afternoon while visiting the seattle times web site i came across this front...
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as you may already know darcy burners wa08 house burnt down yesterday morning.i could tell you how darcy has been a progressive leader who has fully embraced the netroots how her defeat by the slimmest of margins last cycle was one of the only sour notes of that time how she is running strong again and has been a leader on a responsible plan to end the iraq war.but the shirt shes wearing in the ph...
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one of the most amazing candidates running for congress this is year is darcy burner in washington states 8th congressional district. she was the one who with the help of retired generals and national security experts put together a responsible plan to end the war in iraq which has been endorsed by over 50 democratic congressional candidates including jill derby. she has been on the forefront on a...
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netroots hero and candidate for wa08 darcy burner lost her house cat and possessions to a fire in her home last night. her family and dog are safe but a call to support her campaign has been issued by the washington blogger goldy. while darcy puts her attention towards some more important things lets make sure that when her attention returns to helping us in dc she has the resources she will need....
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this it the tshirt darcy was wearing when she ran out of her house. though she had what i know is a fantastic fundraising quarter darcys not going to be doing calltime for some time so lets help her out.her letter to her supporters is here.and please leave your wellwishes in the comments and ill send them to darcy.......
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it is the end of q2 fundraising and three washington democratic challengers for congress will be looking to report strong totals with your help darcy burner in the 8th george fearing in the 4th and mark mays in the 5th.please make a donation today of even the smallest amount if you can.......
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today is the final day of the quarter and as such this is the last day of our mad orange to blue fundraising scramble well at least for a while. weve already met the goals of 350 donations to each individual candidate currently everybodys over 400 except for scott kleeb and im sure we can get there by the end of the day and of 1000 total contributions. were now shooting for 1250 contributions and ...
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conventional wisdom holds and for good reason that incumbent representatives or senators who have survived a few decent challenges will be better equipped to fend off further challenges in the future. on the face of it this conventional wisdom makes sense. it seems logical that out of the candidates targeted for defeat by an opposing party those who were superior campaigners would be the ones m...
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a break from bruno watch is necessary so why not take a look at the recently released netroots nation agenda first let me thank everyone who voted for me and supported me in my pursuit of a democracy for america scholarship to go to netroots nation. i am looking forward to austin and i have been assured by phillip that is a great town. the list of speakers for netroots nation is a long and disting...
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