Coyote Gulch

Sunday, July 10, 2005

A Cunningham Connect the Dots Game
Talking Points Memo is running a connect the dots game around Randy Duke and his wealthy friends. There are prizes for the best network diagram. Marshall writes, "If you'd like to enter the contest and have the chance of winning not only the soon-to-be-released TPMCafe t-shirt but also the new TPMCafe mug, download the worksheet. Then fill it out in a way that gets as much information on the page while also making it as clear and as easy to understand as possible. Entries will be judged on the basis of content, aesthetic excellence and general mockery and schadenfreude. Entries should be returned in a scanned image or pdf format and will be accepted through the 15th. Winners will be announced at TPMCafe."
You gotta love the Internet.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
3:46:08 PM

Blogher
Dan Gillmor: "I wish I wasn't going to be out of town on July 30. Otherwise I'd be registered for the BlogHer conference in Santa Clara, which is shaping up as one of the best events of its kind this year. The organizers have put together a fantastic program. But the name of the conference has led some to think it's a women-only event. Far from it, as Lisa Stone and Chris Nolan, two of the organizers, have been reiterating to anyone who'll listen. Again, I wish I could be there myself. If you're interested and can go, do it."
Ms. Stone herself contacted Coyote Gulch via email asking if I was attending. Alas, I was one of those that considered the conference women only and now have conflicts. I hope they do well and blog the hell out of the conference. I'll be reading.
From the Coyote Gulch archives.
8:38:58 AM

Western Strategy?
More on a Western strategy from the Western Democrat, "In 2004 we heard a lot about battleground states. Let us consider 'Democratic presidential opportunity states,' critical states that look winnable in 2008. The first pass on finding such states is to list all those states Kerry failed to win that were carried by any Democratic presidential candidate in the last quarter century. These fall into three main groups: five in the West totaling 32 electoral votes (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Montana), three in the Midwest totaling 38 electoral (Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio), and six in the South totaling 76 electoral votes (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana). Further east there is also West Virginia (5 electoral votes)."
The Moderate Voice: "We're now in a world war and the terrorist enemy wants to obliterate western civilization. That's the message of Efraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service who until recently was head of the Israel National Security Council and national security adviser to the Israeli prime minister."
Coyote Gulch reader Owen Burnett sends this link via email:
Des Moines Register: "Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo said in Iowa this week that he will run for president in 2008 if no top-tier Republicans pick up his call for stricter immigration law enforcement. Tancredo, a congressman from suburban Denver, is calling for border control by the U.S. military. He also supports sending all undocumented immigrants back to their homelands, a measure intended to reserve jobs for those in the country legally. Opponents say the idea is unworkable and that it would hurt Latinos already working in the United States. The four-term House member met Thursday evening with members of the Christian Coalition of Iowa in Davenport before making similar stops in Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls on Friday. He planned to leave Iowa today after a morning event in Dubuque."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
8:29:47 AM

Questions for Supreme Nominees
Ed Quillen lays out several questions for potiential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court in his column in today's Denver Post [July 10, 2005, "Questions for a nominee"]. Quillen writes, "We should quit speculating about possible nominees. We may or may not be surprised when the president makes an announcement, just as the president may or may not be surprised by a judge's rulings after confirmation. Instead, we should push for some better questions at the hearings. Granted, it wouldn't be prudent for the Judiciary Committee to ask questions about specific cases, but there are some general questions that could tell us what we need to know about a prospective justice."
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
8:09:39 AM

Cross Creek
Support is being sought to designate Cross Creek a Wild and Scenic River, according to the Denver Post [July 10, 2005, "Eco-activists push to protect river"]. From the article, "Although the river flows through a federally protected 118,000-acre wilderness area, Cross Creek may still be at long-term risk if municipalities exercise their water rights, say a pair of activists advocating for a congressional wild and scenic river designation."
Category: Colorado Water
7:59:40 AM

Referendums C and D
The Democratic State Executive Committee voted to back Referendums C and D yesterday, according to the Denver Post [July 10, 2004, "Partisan taint feared as Dems back Refs. C, D". From the article, "The state Democratic Party's executive committee backed on Saturday the budget referendums slated for the November ballot, lending the measures a boost but creating what some committee members believed will be a partisan taint. The endorsement gives proponents of Referendums C and D access to one of the state's two largest grassroots political networks, but the other one is already out of reach. The Republican Party has already indicated that it won't endorse the measures, Sheila MacDonald, campaign manager for 'Yes on C and D,' told the meeting in Fort Collins."
Fred Brown takes on the subject of defining a tax increase in his column from today's Denver Post [July 10. 2005, "Tax foes invent a definition"]. He writes, "There was an interesting exchange a couple of weeks ago between Gov. Bill Owens and former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey over what constitutes a tax increase. Armey, now co-chairman of a tax-fighting group called FreedomWorks, argued that it's a tax increase if the government spends more taxpayer money than it did before."
Category: Denver November 2005 Election
7:53:45 AM

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