Like Doug, I'm enthused by Jonathan's run. La Clinton has never been challenged from the left, and this could be the moment. Jonathan is not the most likely of opponent, but then it takes an unlikely challenger to go up against dreary politics as usual. Plus, I've already told Tasini I need a Triple X Tee shirt. I'm much too busty in anything smaller. <div>On 12/5/05, Michael Pollak <<a href="mailto:mpollak@panix.com">mpollak@panix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > 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 >> <<a href="http://www.tasinifornewyork.org"> http://www.tasinifornewyork.org</a>> 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 ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote></div> -- ________________________________________ `And these words shall then become Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again -- again -- again-- `Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many -- they are few.' --------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy: Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]