The department heads and faculty were e-mailed Monday and Tuesday, the hall was arranged by a former mayor and the college president and there are no faculty or students here.
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At FSU Bill Gunn event
Posted: September 23, 2010 by datechguy in elections, personalTags: bill gunn, ma-1
Off to the Bill Gunn event at Fitchburg State University…
Posted: September 23, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, local stuff, politics, tea partiesTags: bill gunn, fitchburg, local, ma-1, ma01
Here are details:
7 p.m.
Fitchburg State University
Conlon Building Kent Recital Hall
Corner of North St. & Ross St.
Fitchburg
Parking available across the street.
Hope to see you there
Voices of the Voters: Rich Howley
Posted: September 8, 2010 by datechguy in congress, elections, politics, short films/interviews, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, bill gunn, election 2010, ma-1, voices of the voters
Rich talked to me just before the start of Bill Gunn’s Townsend town hall last night:
I was pleasantly surprised to find out he is the uncle of my friend Paul Howley owner of That’s Entertainment two of the best comic and hobby shops you will ever find in the Massachusetts
Yes Plouffe is trying to spin at 70, but they were spinning at 50 too
Posted: September 8, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, politics, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, bill gunn, congress, david plouffe, election 2010, just deserts, ma-1, spin
Today on the Hill Obama partisan Plouffe is trying to set unrealistic expectations to give the left the chance to say: Republicans fell short.
White House senior adviser David Plouffe — Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign manager — said that a bevy of races were in play, from the national to local level.
“There are a lot of competitive races out there. There’s going to be at least 70 House races in play, about 15 competitive Senate races, a couple dozen tough gubernatorial races,” he said in a video to supporters of Organizing for America, the president’s political arm.
Plouffe painted a picture of a dire electoral landscape in which, if Democrats were to lose the majority of those races, their losses would be massive.
Plouffe is trying to scare the troops into action and paints the most dire picture you have ever seen. Glenn Reynolds (by who I first saw the story) asks if he is inflating. The answer is he THINKS he is. Certainly on the senate side 15 is unrealistic, but the dynamics are very different.
For example Ma-1 is not on a lot of people’s radar, but Sitting congressman John Olver has challenged Bill Gunn to 3 debates. Think about that a second. A sitting congressman with nearly two decades in the house has been reduced to challenging a political newcomer to debate him on the issues in MASSACHUSETTS. And the 1st district includes the Berkshires, I guess the ‘Bama redneck area is now extending to the mountains.
This is likely being repeated all over the country. Plouffe is trying to spin but once people believe they can win they work harder. Once people are convinced they can make a difference it gets them off their rears and into the fight.
Plouffe is trying to reset what a “win” is just as the media and democrats. He is instead creating a self fulfilling prophecy it’s isn’t just money candidates need but willing workers. This speech is going to provide workers for republican candidates all over.
Remember congressional democrats, you did this to yourself.
memeorandum thread here
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