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Monday, February 12, 2007
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Here's a long article from the Atlantic about Tim Gill and the efforts of gay people around the country to effect local politics. From the article, "A tough loss can be hard to swallow, and plenty of defeated politicians have been known to grumble about sinister conspiracies. When they are rising stars like Danny Carroll, the Republican speaker pro tempore of Iowa's House of Representatives, and the loss is unexpected, the urge to blame unseen forces can be even stronger -- and in Carroll's case, it would have the additional distinction of being justified. Carroll was among the dozens of targets of a group of rich gay philanthropists who quietly joined forces last year, under the leadership of a reclusive Colorado technology mogul, to counter the tide of antigay politics in America that has generated, among other things, a succession of state ballot initiatives banning gay marriage. Carroll had sponsored such a bill in Iowa and guided it to passage in the state House of Representatives, the first step toward getting it on the ballot."
Read the whole article, there is a lot of good detail. Thanks to Colorado Lib for the link.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:43:16 AM 
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Here's a report on last weekend's Roots Camp from the Denver Post. From the article, "This past weekend, Fawcett was among a few hundred bloggers, politicians and political insiders who attended Rocky Mountain Roots Camp, a local gathering of Net-savvy progressives, to listen, learn and make connections. 'Netroots' - an amalgam of 'Internet' and 'grass roots' - also has momentum in other pockets throughout the country, notably New York, Ohio and Virginia, where bloggers are reshaping the tempo and tenor of political campaigns. With next year's Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado's netroots community is attracting national attention. 'I think Colorado is becoming a bellwether for emerging trends in the progressive blogosphere, and it's the result of the confluence of lots of developments,' said Nancy Watzman, investigative- projects director for Washington-based Public Campaign and a frequent poster on local blogs Colorado Confidential and Square State, the national blog Daily Kos and her own blog, Muckraking Mom. 'I joke that Colorado is the political center of the universe now, with all the changeover in the elections and eyes on the West,' she said. Western Democrat blogger Kari Chisholm called Colorado 'the linchpin of the entire Western strategy for the Democrats.'"
Coyote Gulch did not attend but we should have.
Category: Denver November 2008 Election
6:05:20 AM
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