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PUMA POWER, so Far

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »

As Darraugh Murphy said, We ARE the ones no one was expecting! 

Riverdaughter articulated the idea well with her inaugural article in June:

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/monday-puma-power/

If accomplishments and events are markers for our life, it seems like this weekend is a good time to put a few together in one list.

Puma PAC and coalition members have assembled in Denver. Activities and links to other groups can be found on the I Own My Vote, Just Say No Deal, Puma Pac, and The Denver Group websites. Offices are set up, and media in the ready, on site bloggers are active NOW. The organization of these groups, assembled since June, is testament to real grassroots, and not the Obama AstroTurf to which we have been subjected the last several months. (more…)

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones Dies

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2008| 2 Comments »

Our thoughts are with her family.

Representative Jones was a strong supporter of Senator Clinton. She was in a tough race to retain her Ohio seat. Her intelligence and thoughtfulness served her well in her career. She will be missed.

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones Passes Away

By Tim Grieve

Aug 20, 2008

(The Politico) Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) has died in a Cleveland hospital. 

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SFGate and Clinton’s Name

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Hey Look at us, we’ve got street cred on the West Coast! As of 7:55 AM PDT, 68%  think Clinton’s name should be placed  in  nomination!

Tell them JUST SAY NO DEAL!! GO PUMAs!!!! Read the article and pump up the poll on the side of the page! (more…)

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Hillary’s Chat

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 8, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Although I had a dental appointment and missed it, it appears from Hillary’s website that a fine light, but strictly scripted web chat was had. Any public chat is not going to produce the words that most PUMAs would love to hear. We can’t know the details or what is really going on in “negotiations” in preparation for the Convention. (more…)

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Clinton as a Catalyst of DNC Reform

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes Things Turn Out Unexpectedly

“Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past and future, while reality is confined to the present.”

Jean Paul Richter

 In the late seventies, due to economic changes and events in my family, we found ourselves in a small town in Eastern Washington, where my husband had obtained a job. It was a fragile time. I had left college again as a consequence of this necessary move, just as I had nine months prior, left work in order to go to back to school. Our daughters had left their friends and community roots. My husband, after working as an urban planner, took a job as laborer’s foreman at a nuclear power plant. (more…)

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Buzzz!! Part Three

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2008| 1 Comment »

TOPIX

In March I wrote this on a Topix Blog site:

[No- no! We must have this fight with those who bring them, the racist, sexist, religion bashing, money questions, who did what in the 90’s, who did what in Chicago, who’s hiding what where? All these words, these attitudes that we hold onto, dregs of the last century, must go into the fire we are building. Two candidates are going into the fire. While I think the phoenix rising out the ashes will have a female head, whoever it is will not resemble the original. We must leave no stick, no leaf for the Republicans to burn.

This is the Democratic transformation that will occur. Do not be faint of heart!]

At the time I wrote this exhortation, I was still imagining that the Democratic Party understood that the years of right wing tripe to which we, the public have been subjected, regarding the Clintons, was an attack against the whole of the Democratic Party itself. Ultimately then, fighting the fire of the right wing by stepping into the blaze was the good fight. Little did I know that instead of stomping on the flames, or forging a stronger animal, the DNC would instead attempt to cure the problem by cutting off it’s own body and bleeding all over the kindling. (more…)

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