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Textbook thank-and-spank action on the health care bill
Submitted Mon Nov 09 2009 17:49:00 GMT-0500 (EST) by Jason Z.E-xemplar: Ways to Make Legislative Campaigns Suck Less
Submitted by Chelsea Mon Aug 06 2007 15:51:43 GMT-0400 (EDT)
My fondness for liberals, smart people, and Wisconsin politicians (not to mention good food) aided in my decision to read the Environmental Working Group's recent email on their Organics Petition.
Even though Development Associate David (no, I didn't realize that was his title until I searched their site) once spent a good amount of a phone call laughing at my Wisconsin accent when I was trying to explain tags, I enjoy working with the EWG.
But even more notably, I enjoy well-crafted campaigns. This action nicely displays a few ways to make them suck less (albeit in the service of an uphill struggle):
Even though Development Associate David (no, I didn't realize that was his title until I searched their site) once spent a good amount of a phone call laughing at my Wisconsin accent when I was trying to explain tags, I enjoy working with the EWG.
But even more notably, I enjoy well-crafted campaigns. This action nicely displays a few ways to make them suck less (albeit in the service of an uphill struggle):
Step 1: Pictures are worth a thousand words.
This video was short, energizing, and provided a terrific visual of the support already behind the bill. It's one thing to be told about an issue, but to see an example of what an organization is already doing is quite motivational.Read more (1 comment)
The Cycle of Netroots Life
Submitted by Jason Sun Aug 05 2007 07:55:10 GMT-0400 (EDT)
At least the healing, back-to-fundraising process can begin in the bosom of YearlyKos, whose namesake shared these observations on FISA capitulation day:
We are a full-fledged partner in the progressive coalition ... with our allies in the labor movement, our friends in the issue groups, and our party leadership. ... [E]arly hostility – based on substantive differences – is now giving way to new respect and trust.We in the club, yo! What's systematic, institutional betrayal if not a call for more and better Democrats?
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Fired Attorney Documents Crowdsourced
Submitted by Jason Tue Mar 20 2007 10:01:12 GMT-0400 (EDT)
Thousands of pages of DoJ documents related to the fired attorneys thing posted on the House Judiciary Committee website have been scattered to the readership of Talking Points Memo for perusal and analysis.
Posted at 12:51 a.m. -- the middle of the night -- the request has generated as of this writing (nine hours hence) 35,900 words* of responses/comments, en route to its imminent canonization to the constellation of "network power rewrites political rules" anecdotes. (Stand by, Sunlight Foundation.) (Update -- we beat their story.)
Mashup Congress for Fun and Profit. Mostly Profit.
Submitted by Jason Tue Feb 27 2007 10:53:30 GMT-0500 (EST)
The Sunlight Foundation is sponsoring a contest for data mashups that display information about Congress for "Sunlight Week" Mar. 11-17.
Click here for the details. Not geeky? Try this out ... they've got their own contest which might score you an iPod into the bargain.
Know Your Place (1997 Edition)
Submitted Sun Feb 11 2007 16:01:08 GMT-0500 (EST)
Atrios uncovers a decade-old column by that scold of Washington conventionality dating to the adolescence of the Internet as a tool of mass communication. Cokie's thrust is summed up by a respondent's sarcastic letter to the editor, "The Internet is nothing but a cyber-sewer, full of smut, cults, and now an even greater danger: easy access to government officials."
The horror!
They also get in touch with each other on public policy issues. According to Love, it's like an electronic town meeting. That analogy makes our blood run cold.
