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Brown must be feeling confident to be coming to a rural corner of the state on the home stretch. Hopefully no false rumors about press bans this time.
I hope he’s going to try to boost some local progressive candidates. Could make a difference in any photo finish on Tuesday.
From the Humboldt Democrats:
Join Jerry Brown at the Samoa Cookhouse Sunday morning
Huge rally will be open to the public
Eureka – The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee is excited to announce that the next governor of California, Jerry Brown, will begin his final campaign swing in Humboldt County. Brown and his campaign will be at the Samoa Cookhouse this Sunday morning, Oct. 31, for a Get Out the Vote Rally, from 8 to 10 a.m.
The main event will be held inside the Cookhouse’s banquet room, which has seating for 175 people. The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee and the Central Labor Council of Del Norte and Humboldt counties have asked the Brown campaign to not reserve all the seats in the room, so that there will be about 75 seats available for the general public on a first come-first serve basis Sunday morning. This will be strictly controlled via a number system. Line-cutting will not be tolerated.
The Cookhouse’s main dining room will serve as an overflow room. This room will accommodate another 150 people. It is right next to the banquet room where Jerry will be. It will be wired for sound and we will have at least three TVs in the room so the overflow crowd can watch and hear the action that is going right in the next room. The Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee is hosting Cookhouse biscuits and coffee in the overflow room, and for those outside participating in the rally.
At the same time, the Central Labor Council will stage a large rally for Jerry Brown in the Cookhouse parking lot, which will also be wired for sound so participants can hear Jerry speak. The Central Committee and the Brown campaign will supply Jerry Brown rally signs to anybody who wishes to join in.
In addition, those who want to participate in the Democratic Central Committee’s Get Out The Vote campaign on Saturday have an opportunity to get a reserved seat inside the banquet room with Jerry. This will require six hours of work on Saturday, and this opportunity is limited to 30 people.
For more information, please call the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee office at 707 445-3366.
The ad is entitled “echo.” I have no idea of the contexts of each statement echoed justify the implication, and this may be a total cut and paste clusterf–k. But this ad is a work of art, and I hereby recant all of my slamming of Brown’s non-campaign over the summer. He’s got a team of professionals, and they know how to win! I’m thinking that Brown’s silence during the 120 million dollar barrage of ads from Meg over the summer was some sort of Zen thing he took from his Tibetan journey back in the 1980s. It’s working.
Addendum: As Sally notes in the thread, there is a newer version. Personally, I like the first one better. You don’t have to enhance the material. It speaks for itself.
A very hostile debate tonight. The cameras left before I could be sure, but it didn’t look like they were going to shake hands.
Jerry messed up the whore issue. Meg continued to mess up the maid issue.
Meg is actually an intellectual match for Jerry, but her angry facial twitches and sarcastic smiles while he was speaking probably didn’t earn her points. Maybe she didn’t realize the camera was on both simultaneously, but it’s a serious turnoff for jurors when attorneys and parties make faces while the other side is presenting. I suspect the impact during a televised debate is similar.
Some of Brokaw’s questions were stupid, but he did a pretty good job as moderator.
It’s not a transcript, but a pretty good summary at Kos.
I guess in an effort to ration his money for the fall stretch, Brown has until now campaigned almost nil. Meg Whitman has spent something like a hundred million on ads pounding Brown all summer, and in this climate, quite frankly, I think it’s miracle he isn’t 20 points behind. But he’s averaging only a point behind with the largest poll deficit being seven. Have Whitman’s ads actually hurt her?
In any case, Brown aired his first ad today. It’s a feel-good piece aimed at younger voters who may not remember the governorship which ended tarnished by inexplicable blame for the medfly crisis. All of the wind farms were of his creation, and the technology he boosted is just now paying dividends. Moreover, we benefit from the satellite communication system he envisioned which earned him the “Governor Moonbeam” slam at the time.
It’ll play well with younger voters. But will younger voters come out this time? Ironically, Brown may benefit from turnout generated by the very Proposition he opposes.
Jerry Brown announces tomorrow – online. Is he the first to do so? Is it a good idea? He seems pretty casual as his chief opponent has spent nearly 40 million already (albeit some of it seemingly wasteful if not counterproductive).
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Condi Rice has endorsed Whitman. Again, I think Whitman is out of touch with California. Or I am. I’ve been wrong before. But I just don’t see what she gains from this endorsement.
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One of the chief banes of health care reform so far has been Democratic Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln. Progressives have been pushing a strategy to “primary” the conservative Democrats and Blue Dogs, which I really think is a good idea. You win, you send a message to Dem pols. You lose, and you’ve actually helped the Blue Dogger appear centrist for the general. Anyway, the netroots is already on board with Lincoln’s progressive primary opponent. Well, now the big boys are jumping in too.
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Last week I mentioned Jim Bunning’s one-man filibuster (for which he complained that he had to miss a basketball game). The Democrats are jumping at the opportunity to make hay. Bunning will be their poster boy for awhile. It has not only unemployed thousands of workers, but it will result in a 21 percent Medicare fee cut for physicians.
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Tea Party – meet the Coffee Party.
Maybe the Greens should start a Chai Party!
Serious memo to Coffee Party leadership – a decent enough concept, but too many words! Focus. Clarity. Don’t come across like John Kerry.
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Once again McCain rewrites his voting history.
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Obama doesn’t have FDR’s mojo. But then, as Nate Silver points out, he doesn’t have FDR’s majority either.
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Lastly (for now) the national media has caught up with the “Mexican Cartel invasion” of public lands.
Heraldo is reporting that a certain local monetary figure has made a sizable donation to Whitman’s campaign for Governor.
I spent the past couple of days in the Bay Area on business and she is already plastering her anti-welfare recipient ads all over the radio airwaves. I have to wonder about her strategy. KGO is one thing, because it’s listened to all over the state with conservative demographics who might be receptive to the 1980s era war-on-the-poor rhetoric. The ad basically accuses welfare recipients of being lazy and proposes putting them to work. Not very original, and certainly not very well conceived for the very liberal Bay Area market; which is why I wonder why she is airing the ads over the city’s classic rock stations and KDFC, the classical station whose listenership consists almost entirely of PBS pledging upper middle class liberals who may or may not have some smug class attitudes but certainly do not respond well to Reaganesque talking points about social programs.
Anyway, maybe she’ll prove me wrong.
A quick scan of net news revealed only a poll a few months old showing a dead heat between Whitman and Jerry Brown. With Gavin Newsom out of the race, Brown is sailing smoothly towards the nomination, which is probably freaking some of the older state residents out. I wonder if Whitman will fall into the trap of trying to revive the old Governor Moonbeam label; considering that he was vindicated (he earned the label by suggesting that satellite communications was the wave of the future).
Whitman meanwhile is being accused of “bullying” her Republican opposition. She is way out in front of him.
Jerry Brown maybe trying to reingratiate himself with old NAM members? The title quote comes from Antonio Gramsci, a communist. If you’re going to quote a communist, it might as well be Gramsci whom I believe to be among the Marxist tradition’s very few truly bona fide intellectuals. But it’s kind of weird.
The article improperly attributes the quote to Hegel. Morons.
Pretty much guarantees that Jerry Brown will win his third term as California Governor. Boggles the mind.
But Bill Clinton endorsed Mayor Gavin Newsom for governor a few days ago, over current front runner Jerry Brown. Lots of history between Clinton and Brown.
Sohum Parlance II 
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