Vilsack Live at 8:45 AM EST here at DailyKos.com

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Monday February 05, 2007 · 6:41 PM PST

2007/02/05 · 18:41

I just wanted to let everyone know that Tom will be here tomorrow morning to blog and answer questions.

He'll be ready at 8:45 to 9:15 tomorrow right here.

A lot of people started noticing him this weekend -- thanks to his DNC Speech and the CNN Interview.

But you'll find Tom also has a real record to stand on with success in Iowa and a lot of ideas. It may be easy to worry about the horse race so soon and so quickly, but we hope that we can talk about issues and ideas and how we are going to move the country foward.

There are some rumors about attempts to limit forums and exchanges of ideas, but I am glad we can always come here.

See you all tomorrow morning!

Vilsack: "It is Time for Us To End This War"

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Friday February 02, 2007 · 3:53 PM PST

2007/02/02 · 15:53

I am blogging live from the winter meeting in Washington D.C. right now and tomorrow.

It’s been a great day for Democrats -- the excitement and confidence is clear in everyone -- in every campaign -- and most importantly every Democrat I spoke with today.

It’s amazing to think back four year at how far we’ve come. I was talking to KagroX for a while about the speeches today and Tom Vilsack’s appearance tomorrow and it dawned on me how far our party has come in the past 4 years.

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Friday January 19, 2007 · 6:25 PM PST

2007/01/19 · 18:25

I wanted to give everyone an update from the campaign trail.

Tom Vilsack is in New Hampshire today and he was asked about the "troop cap" proposals that are being proposed in Washington D.C.

From the Boston Globe
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On a presidential campaign stop in New Hampshire, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack said he disagreed with the idea of keeping troop levels in Iraq the same ...

"I don't get the capping of troops thing," Vilsack told reporters. "I would clearly begin the process of taking troops out of Iraq. This is not the time to cap and certainly is not the time to escalate."

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Thursday November 30, 2006 · 7:35 AM PST

2006/11/30 · 07:35

I wanted to let everyone know that this morning Tom Vilsack is formally announcing that he is running for President in his hometown of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He will be giving his announcement speech at Iowa Wesleyan College at 10:00 AM.

Last night, we all attended a potluck at Mt. Pleasant Middle School that the community hosted for the visiting press. It has been a special couple days for everyone -- watching the current Governor in his hometown interact with the community where he was Mayor, local attorney and coach. And where Christie Vilsack grew up and later taught middle school.

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 7:05 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 19:05

I live-blogged on HeartlandPACIowa.org and I thought a number of you might be interested in the report. Sorry I didn't get over here sooner, I had to tend to the IA site first.

8:03: Intial impressions. Chet Culver did well against Nussle, making solid policy points and doing better than expectations -- he won this debate and will likely only win the next two by more. The Republicans are already chattering about "all his proposals," but folks it's called having a plan.

As for Nussle, he sounded un-original and DC-like. All of his points were straight out of the Republican partisan playbook. He seems singularly obsessed with lowering taxes above all else, and just like in congress it is likely that he will choose that over funding education, health care, law enforcement, or any of the other priorities he mentioned tonight.

But worst of all he closed with an outright lie: "we've reduced the deficit." Someone in the press needs to ask Nussle what he meant by that or if it was a purposeful deception.

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Rep. Slaughter is challenged by a Dem?!?!?!

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 8:10 AM PDT

2005/09/21 · 08:10

I don't know if anyone else has heard about this article from this morning's Roll Call but apparently our very own dkos conritbuter, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, may be drawing a tough primary opponent who plans on spending $500,000 against her.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_26/politics/10567-1.html

We cannot let this stand. The article goes on to say that on June 30 Slaughter had $390k in the bank but had been focusing more on her work in Washington than raising money from the insider fat cats.

Any money she has to spend now in a primary will certainly come at the expense she would typically do for other good progressives. I mean she was one of the only people in DC to help Hackett raise money and volunteers.

Here is her contribution link: http://www.votelouise.com/contribute Read More

Tell the MSM: Kilgore stays silent on Robertson, takes his money

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Friday August 26, 2005 · 7:47 AM PDT

2005/08/26 · 07:47

Yesterday I posted about the connection between Kilgore and Pat Robertson - and how the republican candidate for Virginia governor, Jerry Kilgore, has remained silent despite the fact that republicans of all stripes have denounced their former presidential candidate. Evidently this is not a new position for Kilgore - he also ducked Robertson's "judges are worse than terrorists" comments by saying: "I don't think they are dangerous per se; I disagree with a lot of their rulings," Kilgore said. "I don't have them on my terrorist watch list." --- hardly a condemnation.

Kilgore has taken $65,000 from Robertson and the attorney general candidate took $41,000 - they need to answer for this.

We need to move this story. Read More

Robertson: Big problem for Kilgore - lets make it bigger!

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Thursday August 25, 2005 · 2:24 PM PDT

2005/08/25 · 14:24

As you know by now, on Monday, former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson called for the US sponsored assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He treid to apologize, but he realy didn't - and lying about what he said on TV in the process.

This mishap raises critical questions about the 2005 races in Virginia.

Strangely silent from the debate in the aftermath of Robertson's comments has been Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore and his compatriot Republican attorney general candidate Bob McDonnell.

You may be asking, "so what?" Well, upon closer inspection this silence is deafening.
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Right-Wing is Already Divided over SCOTUS

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Friday July 01, 2005 · 9:34 AM PDT

2005/07/01 · 09:34

It is important not to lose sight a strategic advantage we have in this Supreme Court fight. Bush is becoming one of the most unpopular Presidents in history over the past few months. He will try and use this to make him popular again as well as get another Scalia or Thomas on the Supreme Court.

But our chance: Show how divided they are.

Republicans are divided. They are fighting over the Supreme Court and we need to make sure that everyone knows it.

Bush is stuck between a rock and hard place and not much room to move - because he has his own party divided over whether they will nominate a John Birch Society member (yeah that's hyperbole) or someone that is not conservative enough.
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FEC not after Bloggers, Just after Thune-like crap

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Thursday March 03, 2005 · 4:53 PM PST

2005/03/03 · 16:53

Many people have been very scared about the FEC restricting free speech on blogs today. They were all scared by hypothetical musing from a Bush appointee. Everyone needs to settle down and do two things: Consider the source and consider what other problems might need top be addressed.

1) Consider the source.
Bradley Smith is a far right Republican who believes we should go back to the days of 1972 and Nixon's Creep with wads of cash and no regulation whatsoever. You can find more about him here.

He is trying to drum up Democratic support for an extremist position. So be wary of his predictions and think about the second angle. Read More

DFA fights against USA Next-Swift Boat Guys

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Wednesday February 23, 2005 · 9:59 AM PST

2005/02/23 · 09:59

A Democracy for America e-mail from Tom Hughes. Help stand up to the likes of USA Next:

The Next Attack
The right-wing fringe has declared war on Social Security -- and this
week they launched their newest attack.

The ridiculous image you see below is the latest from USA Next,
a front group for radical conservatives who want to dismantle Social
Security.

You won't be surprised to hear who they hired to publicize their
efforts: the same team of hatchet men that ran the swift boat smear
campaign against John Kerry. Now they are targeting the AARP, a group
that millions of seniors rely on to defend their interests.

We must stop these people... now.

Sign our petition to stop these dishonest, bigoted attacks from
spreading any further:

www.democracyforamerica.com/StopUSANext

kmthurman

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Saturday February 12, 2005 · 11:05 AM PST

2005/02/12 · 11:05

Over $14,000 has been raised from the blogs through ActBlue, and the excitement is overunning their site. So you can now contribute through the DNC:

https:/www.democrats.org/support/blogosphere.html

Now is the time to show your support. If can't get through to ActBlue donate to the blogosphere page:

https:/www.democrats.org/support/blogosphere.html

Three cheers for our party.

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