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Oct. 22nd, 2008 12:48 amEl Tinklenberg
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El is running for Congress against Republican neo-McCarthyite Michele Bachmann. A great chance to to not just flip a seat, but, leaving ideology aside, remove someone who doesn't understand that her attacks about "anti-American" figures are far more anti-American than anything her targets could do or believe. Like the line about Pat Buchanan a number of years back -- she seems afraid that America might be taken over... by Americans!
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Darcy Burner
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Darcy is whip smart, and easily able to handle the technology of the 21st Century. And I'm not just saying that because she's been known to lurk here and send me email. :) She's running locally in suburban Seattle for Congress against incumbent ne'er-do-well Dave Reichert, who seems to regard being in Congress as a way to take an 18 month vacation each term, and then spend 6 months convincing the electorate they should send him on another 18 month vacation. This wouldn't be so bad if he was a small-L libertarian, and campaigned on the platform that better he should be warming his seat and not doing a damned thing than putting it in the hands of someone who'd be well-meaning but a bit of a buttinsky... But, no, he generally tends to make the Carswell defense if pressed on this. Reichert became famous by running the investigation for the Green River Killer, but according to this report, "(Frank) Atchley, another supervisor (in the King County Sheriff's office), said Reichert "actually was more of an impediment to the investigation (of the Green River killer)."
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Barack Obama
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Our last, best chance to maintain a constitutional republic in this country.
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El is running for Congress against Republican neo-McCarthyite Michele Bachmann. A great chance to to not just flip a seat, but, leaving ideology aside, remove someone who doesn't understand that her attacks about "anti-American" figures are far more anti-American than anything her targets could do or believe. Like the line about Pat Buchanan a number of years back -- she seems afraid that America might be taken over... by Americans!
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Darcy Burner
Donation page
Darcy is whip smart, and easily able to handle the technology of the 21st Century. And I'm not just saying that because she's been known to lurk here and send me email. :) She's running locally in suburban Seattle for Congress against incumbent ne'er-do-well Dave Reichert, who seems to regard being in Congress as a way to take an 18 month vacation each term, and then spend 6 months convincing the electorate they should send him on another 18 month vacation. This wouldn't be so bad if he was a small-L libertarian, and campaigned on the platform that better he should be warming his seat and not doing a damned thing than putting it in the hands of someone who'd be well-meaning but a bit of a buttinsky... But, no, he generally tends to make the Carswell defense if pressed on this. Reichert became famous by running the investigation for the Green River Killer, but according to this report, "(Frank) Atchley, another supervisor (in the King County Sheriff's office), said Reichert "actually was more of an impediment to the investigation (of the Green River killer)."
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Barack Obama
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Our last, best chance to maintain a constitutional republic in this country.
