Blogged by Brad from the road and on the fly!…
Just a quick post to say thanks to all who have been covering for me here, in particular Winter Patriot who has been thawed out and called up for duty to allow me some much needed time away.
I’m traveling across the country, and not getting as much down time as I’d like for the moment, as I’m in touch with folks in re: the Busby/Bilbray election fiasco and their plans for announcing several new initiatives to call for accountability there shortly. As well, working on several related issues via the phones etc.
I’ve not been online at all since last Thursday night, and only on briefly today. So forgive me if I’ve not been able to answer your email, or otherwise report on so much of what is going on right now. We’ll see more and more Guest Bloggers here in the coming days and weeks to cover much of that in my absense, which I hope you continue to understand. I really need to find some time away, even if I’m unable to get away 100% in the bargain for now.
Thanks also to John Gideon and David Edwards for keeping up the battle here, and I hope you’ll welcome some of the new names (like Emily Levy, etc.) that you’ll be seeing here over the next several weeks. Please offer them all the support you can!
If you haven’t noticed, the disinfo campaign down in San Diego by Registrar Mikel Haas and his compatriots in the media is now in full swing. Haas is lying left and right, and his friends at the Union-Tribune and elsewhere are all too happy to help! Please feel free to let such media outlets know the truth about what’s going on where you can in my absence.
This unsigned editorial today in the U-T was simply incredible! According to them, we’re “Internet conspiratorialists” again. Someone please let them know that if we are, so is CA Sec. of State Bruce McPherson whose own office confirmed dozens of ways that Diebold voting machines could be hacked, along with NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice who detailed more than 120 security threats to E-voting security, and even the Washington Post who declared that a “Single Personal Could Reverse an Election”.)
So much disinfo from the liars and scoundrels in San Diego who are entrusted to run the people’s elections, so little online time (for me at least) to counter it all. Thanks in advance to those of you who can continue to do so in my absence! And thanks for your understanding over the next several weeks while I continue to be gone!
(Note to Winter Patriot or John Gideon: Feel free to add links to any of the above text as you are able or inclined!)
A great way to get involved in the battle for Democracy (besides giving to BradBlog and commenting here) is to join the Election Defense Alliance. Just go to http://www.electiondefensealliance.org, sign in, join a working group and let’s get down to it. We can expect no less than a full out battle for Congress, and we know from experience we’ll face a totally anti-democracy, anti-majoritarian effort in full force just as in 2000 and 2004. Let’s get ready. We will not let the country go fascist without an all out fight. Join today and let’s get rolling. Brad, continue to lounge!!! Everyone else, we have 107 days left. What are your plans? By the way, another great national strategy group is http://www.dfalink.com/electionrescue
Join this group to help me and other DFA leaders to develop a powerful EI strategy for DFA.
Just another online conspiratorialist democracy extremist,
Ginny Ross
Democracy for Oregon
Election Defense Alliance
Please someone post the telphone number and email address for Letters to the Editor of the UT. To fax letters dial: 619-260-5081 and send.
FURTHERMORE, If the SAN DIEGO Union Tribune is so cock sure that the “Challenge to County Procedures are Unfounded”, they should pay for a manual recount of the Busby-Bilbray race to prove their point. OTHERWISE THEY HAVE NO POINT AND ARE NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDISTS WHO HAVE NO RIGHT TO PRETEND THAT THEY PRINT TRUTH.
I wonder if this “mystery editorialist/propagandist” is Ruben Navarette, and if he’s getting “revenge” on us for booing him during Al Franken’s show at Democracy Fest a week ago. How incredibly LAME that mess is!
OT:
Lou Dobbs slams Bush on signing statements… Breaking…(Raw Story)
Go get em Lou!!!!!!!!!
Machine Vote-Flipping Claimed in McKinney Primary
http://www.atlantaprogressivene...news/0072.html
Brad
Kick back, take a break, and for god’s sake – find somewhere cool! Prudhoe Bay comes to mind!
Just get at least ten hours’ sleep every night and I won’t have a cow. 😉
He looks like he has lost about 20 lbs in the last 60 days.
Brad is a “stress seeker.” It goes with the territory here, but we need you around, Brad. Get some rest, please!
oldturk is RIGHT! Eat, chow down, pig out, and then sleep at least ten hours a night.
I second the above advice. 🙂
I am new to the bradblog but it has quickly become my favorite site. Things are tight right now but I promise to send some money to support my new favorite site as soon as I can.
As far as I am concerned there is nothing as important as votes being counted, that is the first step and without it everything else is irrelavent.
Thanks for all of your hard work Mr. Freidman, take it easy, have a few beers, eat some good food, get some rest and come back ready to kick ass!
Agent99
I hope you’ve got Max milking that herd!
Heck, ‘bear2, Max has put up a milking barn with all the machinery, all the bells and whistles. Turns out my entirely too regular bouts of ire are making us rich in the dairy products industry. Tanker trucks full of milk pull away from here two times a day. I should probably start having them on the desk in the Oval Office, instead of my own. More effective.
Welcome, and hello, Megadave!
99,
I’ll have to go talk to Robt. Mondavi, see if we can lease a corner of the warehouse I conditioned for him.
We can make some mean cheddar and tangy swiss.
Remember, I was a cheesehead before I became a baked potatohead!
CHEESEHEADS PHOTO LINKS
Link I
Finegold : Link II
Dean : Link III
Bush bitch : Link IV
Bush the Fascist : Link V
I nominate a theme song (“Series of Dreams“) for American elections:
(Series Of Dreams, Bob Dylan).
Peace and rest to you Brad. You are held in such high esteem by so many. There was a guest person last night on air america starting at 7pm. He called Haas’s(hope I got the name right) office in San Diego on air and got the run around. Says he will continue to call on air .This guy is great..calm and courteous …may be on all week,since he says he will keep calling back. Nice to hear someone on air america radio giving the problem time and attention.Go RFK Jr.
Old Turk #17
Thanks for the cheese! LOL
#V Don’t Diss the Swiss!