Progressive Politics from Memphis
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SCDP – Looking Forward
The past two years have been a difficult time for the SCDP. Despite all the new energy we heard about in the 2008 Presidential election, the SCDP remained relatively quiet and kept a low profile until the ”ballotgate” fiasco just weeks before election day. It would be easy enough to talk about all the problems…
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Doogie Howser Moment #75621
It’s been a rough month or so. My travel schedule has been brutal, my future work prospects, dismal. I’m not crying or anything. I know I’m far better off than the vast majority of people. That said, looking into the near future, I find myself looking down the barrel of large swaths of unbooked time.…
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SCDP – Ward and Precinct – Today is the Day
Get up! Get some breakfast in ya, and get down to Airways Middle School, 2601 Ketchum for the SCDP Ward and Precinct Caucus. Registration starts and 9:00AM and runs through 10:45. Voting on Delegates will start around 11:30 (I got the time wrong yesterday). After all that, you can come to the airport and see…
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SCDP – Race for the Chair – Van Turner
As promised, here is the first set of responses to the questions I posed both candidates running for SCDP chair. They are un-edited and posted in their entirety. Promotional materials follow. Thanks to Van for choosing to participate. 1. Why are you running for SCDP chair, and what is your vision for the Party? I…
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SCDP – Race for the Chair-Prelude UPDATED
For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, we started with 5, Lee Harris, Cherry Davis and JW Gibson dropped out on, or around the Mid-South Community Organizers for Change, Straw Poll. The remaining candidates are Jay Bailey and Van Turner. Last night, I sent an email questionnaire to the two remaining candidates for…
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Still Suffering from the Bush Economy
The Labor Department announced today that 651,000 new unemployment claims were filed in February, raising the national unemployment rate to 8.1%. Unemployment has been on a steady rise since December of 2006. The stock market has lost 53% of it’s value since peaking at over 14000 in October of 2007. The FDIC reports that 43…