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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SCDP – Ward and Precinct Meeting

    On Saturday, the SCDP will begin the process of reorganizing with its “Ward and Precinct” caucus at Airways Middle School, 2601 Ketchum. This is the first step in selecting a new Executive Committee and Chair for the SCDP. Since the 2006 County re-organization, the SCDP has devolved from somewhat relevant organization, to a state of…

  • Corporate Events and the Bailout

    Today over at Huffington Post there’s an article about another bailed out bank spending scads of money on corporate junkets. I understand the outrage. As a Democrat, it’s hard to square the idea that a financial institution, who received financial help from taxpayers, would then turn around and use money, whether it came out of…