On 12/5/05, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > This was a press release designed to get hacks to come to the
> announcement
> > event. But the URL for the website was there, complete with contrib and
> > volunteering links:
> >
> >> A list of Tasini's positions can be found at
> >> <http://www.tasinifornewyork.org> the campaign's website.
>
> Fair enough. The only mistake then was to forget to make all his friends
> link to it so it would show up at the top of google. (Or buy "tasini")
>
> > Hillary sucks, and it'd be a wonderful blow to her presidential
> ambitions
> > (and a fine example to pro-war Dems) if she got badly bloodied in the
> > Senate primary.
>
> That would be good for everyone, even the most conventional Dems, because
> Hillary can never be president (because she's not from the South. Until
> the Dems change the political geography of the country, it's no accident
> their only presidents have been Southerners).
>
> But what would be even better was if a strong Tasini showing drove her and
> other Democratic notables to the left. Not only would that be a good
> result, but it would give us a replicable model of how to do it again. It
> would offer a medium term answer to what is to be done with that party.
>
> Michael
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