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links for 2010-10-13
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So would aiding and abetting terrorists to kill US soldiers qualify as behavior unbefitting of a sitting US senator?
On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) secured diplomatic courtesy letters that allowed anti-American Code Pink activists to travel to Fallujah, Iraq. The radicals traveled to Fallujah in late 2004 to donate $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the people who had just killed 51 Americans and wounded 560 more earlier that month. Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah was the heaviest US urban combat since the Vietnam War.
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In the final days of her most difficult reelection bid, California Senator Barbara Boxer is emphasizing veterans issues to deflect criticism of her long history of undermining the US military, a cynical strategy that has garnered an endorsement from the increasingly leftist VFW. At the recent opening of a new veterans' center in Pasadena, Boxer was overcome with emotion as Senator Inouye of Hawaii defended her record of support for veterans and veterans' issues.
Let's review a few facts that Boxer and her handlers hope the voters won't recall.
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Count the National Organization for Women among those unsatisfied with state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown's debate apology for the campaign staffer who called Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman a "whore."
A statement on NOW's website from President Terry O'Neill said Brown's comments Tuesday night did not go far enough.
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Carly Fiorina's campaign launched a new interactive iPhone application and game to engage younger voters and capitalize on the recent trend of location-based social networks.
The "Carly Fiorina Red Zone Challenge" is a location-based app that allows students, fans and friends of California colleges to earn points and compete against each other by "checking in" at locations including rallies, phone banks, and other get-out-the-vote events and activities.
After selecting a California college as their "team," users gain points both individually and as a group as they "check in" to complete actions. This can be tracked via the leader board from within the app. Various incentives -from campaign gear to a meet-and-greet with the candidate– will be available both throughout the challenge, and at the end, with the most significant incentive being offered to the top ten volunteers from the winning team and overall at the end.
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Interesting for GOTV
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Net32 Survey Reveals Dentist’s Online Behavior
Here I am blogging at lunch a few months ago
An interesting survey from Net32.Net32 today reported that it completed a social technographic survey of members of its industry leading dental comparison shopping marketplace, revealing a number of major differences between dentists’ online behavior and that of the US adult online population. For example, dentists identified themselves most frequently as Critics as defined in the social media focused book Groundswell; people who rate and review products and services, contribute to forums, comment on blogs, etc. About 25% of online US adults are classified as Critics while over 40% of dentist respondents identified themselves as such by their interests and activities.
Dentists were also represented strongly as Collectors; people who receive real-time updates from sites that interest them, tag photos, rate websites, and suggest websites. 26% of the dentists identified as Collectors, more than double the 12% US online adult Collectors. In the category of Creators; people who publish blogs, upload video, write articles, etc, dentists identified themselves as this at a 10% level, below the 18% of online US adults who are classified as such.
The fact is that there are not many dentist bloggers and we can us more. There are more each day on Twitter which is a start.
But, dentistry is a demanding profession both physically and mentally. Sometimes with a demanding clinical/patient schedule finding time to write and be creative is just not easy.
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CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer, Countrywide Home Loans and Ethics
Senators Christopher Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut and chairman of the Banking Committee, and Kent Conrad, Democrat from North Dakota, chairman of the Budget Committee and a member of the Finance Committee, received loans from Countrywide Financial through a little-known program that waived points, lender fees, and company borrowing rules for prominent people. (Friends of Angelo Mozilo)
California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Chair of the Select Committee on Ethics has some explaining to do.Public records show that Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Select Committee on Ethics, needs a training class on conflicts-of-interest.
Deeds of trust compiled by Leslie Merritt and Frank Perry of the Foundation for Ethics in Public Service show that the California Democrat and her husband, Stewart, held seven mortgages with Countrywide, the company which gave VIP mortgage discounts to influential customers, including Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT, and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND.
Senate rules prohibit members from accepting deals not available to other borrowers. The loans and properties associated with them are not listed on her personal financial disclosure forms because she deemed them non-income generating, the type exempted from public airing.
Countrywide was once one of the biggest home lenders before the housing collapse, so it is not surprising for the couple to have financed home purchases through the company. But it should raise red flags that she investigated two colleagues for receiving preferential treatment from Countrywide without first disclosing the full terms of her loans, which greatly outnumbered those of the people whose conduct was scrutinized.
Boxer has said she received no preferential treatment and that she paid off the loans prior to the investigation. But even if she did not receive preferential treatment, she should have recused herself from proceedings to avoid the appearance of self-dealing.
Read the entire piece.
Barbara Boxer should really come clean and disclose all of her dealings (the complete terms of the loans) with Countrywide Home Loans and Angelo Mozilo.
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CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer Votes But Declines to State Positions on Five California Propositions
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., fills out her absentee ballot as she votes in her campaign for re-election, at the Registrar-Recorder’s office in Riverside, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010
Say what?Senator Boxer just voted and she cannot state how she voted on them?
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer voted early today in Riverside, and likely cast her vote for a host of statewide propositions on the November ballot.
But after dropping off her ballot, Boxer did not say how she weighed in on five of those measures — propositions 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26. She already has taken a public stance on propositions 19, 20, 23 and 27.
“Well I have taken a position on the major propositions, but we’ll be working on all of those and will be putting some information out on that,” Boxer said at a news conference.Prop. 21 would charge car owners an extra $18 a year to help pay for state parks and wildlife programs. Prop. 22 deals with funds for transportation and local government. Among its provisions, Prop. 22 would prohibit the state from borrowing from funds used for transportation, local government and redevelopment agencies.
Prop. 24 would repeal recent changes to state tax law that allows some businesses to pay less in taxes. Prop. 25 would eliminate the two-thirds requirement in the Legislature to approve state budgets.
Prop. 26 also deals with taxes and fees. If approved, the proposition would treat many state and local fees as taxes that require a two-thirds vote by lawmakers to take effect.
Jeeeeeez Babs – just tell us how you voted.
Or, do you need your staff to prepare position papers for you – AFTER YOU ALREADY VOTED.
I mean, how ridiculous can you be – lifelong POL – Sheesh.Time to retire Boxer.
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CA-Sen: Retire Barbara Boxer Money Bomb Today
The Carly Fiorina Campaign is having a fundraising drive today to retire Barbara Boxer.Go here and donate generously.
Keep those amazing Fred Davis ads pummeling Barbara Ma’am Boxer on air as much as possible.
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Day By Day October 13, 2010 – Bad Witch
Chris, being associated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is toxic this election cycle. Nobody running for Congress wants to be associated with the San Francisco Far Left POL.The Democrats at her helm are even cannibalizing their own. Look at this.A Democratic candidate for Congress accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of pulling its support for his campaign because he said he wouldn’t support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Speaker.
State Sen. Roy Herron (D), who’s running for the opening seat held by retiring Rep. John Tanner (D) in Tennessee’s 8th congressional district, suggested the DCCC’s decision to cancel ad buys in the racerefusal to back Pelosi.
A handful of Democrats have said they wouldn’t back Pelosi to remain asleader of the House Democrats, and several more have been noncommittal. Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) released an ad on Tuesady touting his pledge to vote against Pelosi, and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has suggested Pelosi’s leadership might not be tenable if Democrats sustain heavy losses.So, now the Democrats are running not against their Republican opponents but against their own Democratic Party leaders?
Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose.
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