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Stacy McCain continues to beat the Bushes to find the details in Pa-12 and some of these seem to be familiar:

While I was at Burns campaign HQ Friday, I interviewed a registered Democrat from Fayette County who stopped by the office to pick up a yard sign. This was a blue-collar working man who had voted for Murtha in the past, but who has no use at all for the agenda currently being pushed by Obama and Nancy Pelosi.

Again we have a situation where a district was comfortable with a longtime member of congress and perhaps looking the other way on certain things because he brought home the bacon and had power, but now that he’s gone people will now vote their own interest.

Where have I seen this before?

I was kinda busy this weekend so I missed Robert Stacy’s & Roxeanne’s suggestion concerning PA 12.

I don’t mind doing the drive down there although the election is on my Birthday so the family might be a tad annoyed, but if the time to panic is at hand any kind of thing that generates income is welcome.

So if you want to the DaTipJar to send me to PA 12, that’s great. (Specify PA-12 in the comment) Stacy’s calculations leave out any kind of Hotel or place to sleep but we are talking 10 hours down and ten hours back. Assuming I can get a cheap hotel for $50 a night. If I can Get $500 by the end of the week to DaTipJar then I’ll head down. If by the 8th I have said $500 I’ll pick a day to head there. For every extra $250 a day that comes in I’ll add an extra day. (That covers hotel plus my fee).

It’s all up to you guys. Should I stay or should I go, or to put it another way: Is what I do here worth it to you? Excitable Andrew actually managed to raise $80k a year to blog independently from his readers before he got his Atlantic gig. What would this on site reporting be worth to you?

Just called in my unemployment and was informed I had no more weeks left. This seems to contradict what I was told back in January. Monday I will be running to the unemployment office to find out for sure. If this turns out to be correct then to say I’m in huge trouble is an understatement. I’ll cut what I can from the budget (there isn’t much left to cut) but from this point we start burning savings and selling off stuff.

The examiner gig so far has paid about $30 a week based on hits. That leaves $510 weekly to try to make up for Unemployment or $770 to make up from my old pay.

I’ll of course keep up my various plans that I’m trying to put into place but unless anyone is dying to hire a blogger/writer at once it’s pretty much going to be come hermit time or massive telethon time a-la Andrew Sullivan before he got his Atlantic gig. And of course anything I can grab I will but I don’t know how much George Bailey I have in me.

…it looks like she might have finally turned the corner! It is a real relief to see her making any breathing improvement.

Very busy today

Posted: April 25, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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Spent the morning cooking at the church with the youngest and will be off to a Knights of Columbus ceremony this afternoon.

I have a couple of reviews scheduled today to go up, I’ll try to get something new up this evening depending on when I get home.

Meanwhile around the blogroll to keep you busy, Barbara has something on the changing tune of John McCain, The Camp of the Saints proves a woman doesn’t have to be size one to make a man want to sin, The Lonely Conservative breaks philosophical , the other mccain and