This community understands the importance of speaking out in support of candidates who make their campaign's for office about reform and accountability. Karen Carter is doing just that in the Louisiana 2nd congressional race. Our friend Tim Tagaris is covering the race for MyDD, so if you want a clear picture of what's happening, he's a great resource.
BranfordBoy set up an ActBlue page in support of Karen - please make a donation today. So far we've raised $380 from 6 donors on ActBlue for Karen; I'd love to see us add four new donors and get over $500 today. Every little bit counts.
Lastly, as I am a new Facebook junky, I'd recommend people go join the Karen Carter for Congress!! facebook group. There's only nine members now and I'm sure we can bump that number up. I don't know much about Facebook organizing, but I know the more people we get talking about Karen's campaign, the better.
From what I can tell, the Connecticut blogosphere is one of the leading fronts in support of Karen's campaign. It's heartening for me to see people in this community continue with their commitment to support reform-minded, progressive candidates far beyond Connecticut's borders.
I am again posting this link to call your attention to the incredible links someone sent to Tim Tagaris with his first diary from NOLA.
I am so moved by the images, the feelings, the events contained in these blogs. The link above is utterly graphic and no holds barred in its anger. Underneath it all, I bet there's exhaustion and pain and frustration and loss, not the least of which is loss of faith in what our country stands for, and what promises our government stands behind.
I took the time to step into another world and witnessed through these blogs what is going on in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, today. I don't have any agenda about how you should or must feel, but these diaries are powerful and hard to just walk away from. I encourage people to take a few minutes to know them.
Hat tip to joejoejoe for these interesting links. Tim's latest report from NOLA has additional links. http://mydd.com/comm...
UPDATE: DO NOT MISS the absolutely riveting blog links in this post. This is blogging at its best, it is the experience of New Orleans that will not be delivered any other way.
We're hiring Tim Tagaris from the Lamont campaign to head down to New Orleans and cover the LA-02 race for MyDD, somewhat as he did for Paul Hackett in OH-02 though with more of a journalistic focus and with a video camera. Corruption in the Democratic Party has its roots in local machines, and there's no more colorful or weird machine than that of William Jefferson, a DLC Congressman caught with $90k in cash in his freezer. A progressive Democrat, Karen Carter, is challenging him, and we've already endorsed her. But there are two other important themes that Tim is going to cover when he's down there. One is race, which is inescapable in Louisiana and in this election. The second is Katrina, which is also inescapable in this election.
We are committed to progressive change and to a progressive agenda. A post-Katrina New Orleans is the domestic symbol of the conservative movement. Not only did underinvestment in a poor and largely black city lead to a devastating disaster, but the promises of the Republican Congress and Bush, the promises they made in our names as American citizens, the promises to rebuild the city, these are promises that we have not kept. Tim is going to New Orleans to remind us of the compact we have as citizens, and as a country. He's going to cover an election because that is how our political dialogue takes place.
How he could leave Chrissy is beyond me, but there you have it.
Who? Karen Carter. You know, the real Dem who's locked in a runoff election in Louisiana against the phenomenally corrupt Rep. William Jefferson (he of the 90 grand in his freezer).
Look, I've often said that My Left Nutmeg is all about replacing Republicans with Democrats and bad Democrats with better Democrats. Here's a chance to put a little bit of money where our principles are.
If the Dems are going to "clean House," we cannot coddle corruption in our midst. Don't look to Lieberman for help. Don't look to the DLC. This is a perfect opportunity for us progressives -- the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party -- to take the lead.
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