Need to Sell Netroots Nation 2017 Registration, paid $295, asking for $275
Short & sweet, I bought this registration last fall but I’m not going to be able to use it because I can’t afford to take the time off to travel to Atlanta. Please contact me at hpark4@aol.com if...
View ArticleLots of Love for Jimmy Carter today in Plains, Georgia
Today was the 21st annual Plains Peanut Festival and Parade and besides Mr. Peanut and Buddy McNutty the guest of honor was former President Jimmy Carter. Every year the script is pretty much the...
View ArticleJimmy Carter wants to go to North Korea; "Sunday School" in Plains, GA
This morning I got up at 5:30 AM to go to church. That doesn’t happen often.I traveled to Plains, GA this past weekend to attend the Plains Peanut Festival, the annual Carter Political Items...
View ArticleLet Jimmy Carter go to North Korea, Why Not Give It A Try
Jimmy Carter published an Op-Ed today in the Washington Post about North Korea. Essentially his message was like another icon of the 1970’s, John Lennon, Give Peace a Chance!It’s no secret that Carter...
View ArticleOh, Mighty Trump, Be the Dealmaker of All Time and Let Jimmy Carter Go to...
SARCASM ALERT!Oh Mighty Trump, greatest American since Lincoln, it’s time to at least start the process leading to the greatest deal for the greatest President in the greatest great country in this...
View ArticleJust Got My Health Insurance Letter: Up about 30%, also I'm being Evicted,...
I just opened my health insurance letter and its up about 30% next year, over $1,000 per month for a single person. I’m a single male, 59 years old who lives in Washington, DC. Thanks to rising rent...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Robbie Mook, What happened to us? Let's learn the lessons of...
Way back in early 2004, right after the collapse of the Dean campaign, I met Robbie Mook. I attended a Dean meet-up in Washington, DC at the Hawk & Dove put together by the late Mike Shor — a...
View ArticleDo Field Operations Really Matter? We will find out tonight!
It’s been a question for wonks for decades. Political scientists and operatives constantly debate if field operations really matter. We know what the data drones who ran the Clinton campaign think....
View ArticleMy Mom's reaction in the Hospital Emergency Room when the Doctor asked about...
In brief, my Mom, 83 years old, is a proud lifelong proud liberal Democrat who marched on Selma twice in the 1960’s and also passionately supports Planned Parenthood. She was a Sociology Professor in...
View ArticleGet Well Rosalynn Carter!
Yesterday, one of my heros, Rosalynn Carter, age 90, had surgery at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta to remove scar tisue from her small intestine. All indications are that she is doing well...
View ArticleDoes your College partner with hotelplanner.com and the NRA?
www.hotelplanner.com is a major company which handles group reservations for a variety of organizations. They are also closely allied with the NRA. HotelPlanner doesn’t just offer discounts to NRA...
View ArticleAffordible Housing Under Attack in Washington DC, Council Votes on March 6
Washington, DC — the local government — is generally progressive. However, money talks and increasingly renters have no other option but to walk, and are being forced out of the city. The latest...
View ArticleAttack on Affordable Housing in DC: Will Progressive Councilmembers Betray...
Money talks and increasingly renters are forced to walk, and are being forced out of the nations’ capitol city. The only winners are Donald Trump and the top 1%. The latest attack on affordible...
View ArticleThanks Dad, for bonding through Baseball, not Guns
During the last real conversation I had with my Dad, who is now literally on his deathbed, I thanked him for NOT introducing me to guns. We never hunted. He didn’t want to run around in the woods...
View ArticleSouth Sudan/Carter Center announce Eradication of Guinea Worm Disease in...
The Government of South Sudan and the Carter Center announced today that there have been no cases of Guinea Worm disease in the country since Nov. 2016, i.e. the last 15 months. Because the Guinea...
View ArticleListening to talk radio on a drive from Louisville to DC - Gays, Israel,...
Today I drove from Louisville, KY to Washington, DC and here are a few of the things I heard on talk radio:*Plastic "noodles" such as the things kids play with in a swimming pool may cause the children...
View ArticleRANT: My cancer patient friend is being denied medical mariajuana.
I just found out that a 30 year friend has pancreatic cancer. This one sometimes strikes very quick. He has an extreme weight loss. The only thing that seems to ease his pain and stimulate his...
View ArticleSupport Progressive Change in the DC Dem. Primary, Tuesday, June 19 - Lazere...
This Tuesday, DC voters will decide if they want to continue the progressive gains of recent years and fight the rapid decline of affordable housing in the city.Mayor Murial Bowser is without serious...
View ArticleMissouri: A Great Week for Progressives, Wes Bell, Jason Kander for KC Mayor
It’s been a rough decade or two for progressives in my one and future home state of Missouri and it’s leading city, St. Louis. The Michael Brown case ripped the scab off of the scars of racial...
View ArticleHappy 94th Birthday Jimmy Carter!
Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter!I had the pleasure of seeing Jimmy & Rosalynn at the Plains Peanut Festival last weekend. This man is great and good. HE LOOKED FANTASTIC! Animated with the full smile...
View ArticleHappy 71st Anniversary Rosalynn & Jimmy Carter, C'mon Down to Plains!
It’s a joy to congratulate this wonderful couple on the anniversary of their marriage, 71 years ago. This year I was fortunate enough to see the Carters in Plains during the annual Peanut Festival,...
View ArticleO'Malley Endorses O'Rourke for 2020
Part of an Op-Ed from today’s Des Moines Register:“The challenges we face will not solve themselves. Building an economy that works for all of us, reversing climate change, passing immigration reform —...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Martin O'Malley
To most of you he’s just another politician. A white male. The guy who peaked at about 2% on the polls when he had the audacity to challange Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination in 2016....
View ArticleInformal "focus group" 5 70+ Dem women, St. Louis suburb: wide open but...
Today I “conducted” a very informal focus group type exercise among 5 retired women in a upper middle class suburb of St. Louis MO about 2020 Dem. candidates. All 5 had voted for Hillary in 2016. None...
View ArticleWhat goes around, come around, for Sen. Gillibrand
Tonight I got a typical fundraising e-mail for Sen. Gillibrand, a candidate for President. The e-mail focused on her successful effort to remove her colleague, Sen. Al Frankin, from the Senate because...
View ArticleJimmy Carter should be invited to speak at the 2020 Dem Convention
As a Democratic past president, Jimmy Carter was allowed to speak at Democratic Conventions until 2008. That year, Carter prepared a speech to be delivered in Denver but at the last minute, for...
View ArticleThe 2020 story so far, only Mayor Pete stands out
He’s still not necessarily my first choice but credit were credit is due. When we look back at the very early stages of the 2020 race no one will remember the hair sniffing allegations against Joe...
View ArticleGood Vibrations go out to Jimmy Carter, recovering from broken hip Monday AM
MSNBC reported that Jimmy Carter, age 94, is recovering from a broken hip this morning. I also heard this from a Georgia friend.Heaven can wait! We need Carter’s humble wisdom, courage and experience...
View ArticleJimmy Carter released from hospital, continues Sunday teachings in Plains, GA
Thursday, May 16, 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THE CARTER CENTERHEALTH UPDATE ON JIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTERPresident Carter was released from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center today and will continue to...
View ArticleMy ancestor didn't give his life for a US President to fall in love with a...
Element removedKOREANWAR.ORGKorean War Death - 1LT Warren Webster IiiKorean War Death - 1LT Warren Webster IiiYesterday, I spent a few minutes remembering my father’s cousin, Warren Webster III of...
View ArticleLet's Demonstrate Against Trump on July 4 in DC
July 4 in DC is a unique opportunity for us to show Donald Trump what we think of him, pappy Putin, bombs away Bolton and his whole illigitimate, corrupt regime. Presidents almost always avoid mass...
View ArticleHappy 73rd Anniversary, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter!
July 7 marks 73 years when Naval Academy Midshipman Jimmy Carter married sweetheart Rosalynn Smith. Wow...the changes they have seen! Throughout it all, thier love has lit the world from Rosalynn’s...
View ArticleRandom thoughts from NN, Ed Rendell, Philly and Presidential Winnowing
I was happy to attend part of the 2019 Netroots Nation, the conference for progressive bloggers and activists. It was held in Philly, one of my fave big cities to visit. I first attended NN (then...
View ArticleGet Well Willie Nelson!
As you may have heard, Willie has canceled the rest of his tour citing “breathing problems.” That ‘ol tour bus is probably a very smoky place. Everybody with even a twang of love for music is rooting...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Rosalynn Carter!
Happy Birthday to a remarkable woman, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter! Forever the first lady of the best of the American heart and spirit!Rosalynn is 92. I saw her about a year ago at a book signing...
View ArticleConversations from the West Virginia State Fair
A week ago, driving from DC to St. Louis, I stopped in at the West Virginia State Fair in lovely Lewisburg. Amidst the food and animals there was politics and I dropped by the booths for the Democratic...
View ArticleC'mon down to Plains,GA for the Peanut Festival on Sept. 28. President Carter...
In brief, the annual Plains Peanut Fest will be on Sept. 28. Festivities begin with a 5k run in the morning (Jimmy presents trophies to all), a cool Parade at 11 am, a book signing by the Carters in...
View ArticleJimmy Carter Honored for Support of DC Statehood and Voting Rights
On Saturday, 9/28 I was honored to present Jimmy Carter with birthday greetings from the Citizens of Washington, DC, our Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council. The occasion was the Plains Peanut...
View ArticleFranklin, Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson agree, IMPEACH TRUMP!
Conservative legal types, like some of the professors I had in law school, have been whining ever since FDR’s New Deal about liberals who dare to suggest that the meaning of the Constitution changes...
View ArticleJill Schupp kicks off campaign in MO-2, running against ghost Rep. Ann Wagner
This afternoon, State Sen. Jill Schupp announced her candidacy for the House of Representatives before a crowd of 500+ in suburban St. Louis. The DCCC has named this one of the top 12 House pick-up...
View ArticleThe Progressive Champion in MO-1, Rep. Lacy Clay
St. Louis voters go to the polls Tuesday. It’s a no-brainer for Progressives to support Lacy Clay for re-election. Clay has led on police reform, writing parts of the Democratic bill that Moscow...
View ArticleBoycott Hawley/Edward D. Jones Financial
OpenSecrets.org publishes a list of top corporate contributors to Sen. John Hawley. The list details companies which made direct PAC payments to Hawley as well as individual contributions (over $200)...
View ArticleMeet Lucas Kunce, MO-Sen, Wed. April 28 in St. Louis
MEET LUCAS KUNCE - Democrat - US SENATE - 2022 - MissouriYou are invited to meet Lucas Kunce, Democratic candidate for the open US Senate seat in Missouri and the worst nightmare ever for Eric...
View ArticleHow LBJ would have handled Joe Manchin
How would the Master of the Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson handle Joe Manchin? Years ago an LBJ aide from the mid-1950's told me how his boss handled a Manchin type. Johnson was the Majority Leader in the...
View ArticleA Missouri Democrat at Netroots Nation
A Missouri Democrat at Netroots NationGreetings from Pittsburgh and the 16th NN conference. What is Netroots Nation? It's the closest thing that Democrats have to CPAC, the Trumpist/Conservative...
View ArticleMarkos is RIGHT ON!
At Netroots Nation tonight in Pittsburgh Markos Moulitsas did a fantastic job of framing the 2022 election — the next 70 or so days — and a strategy for success. “We are the Freedom Party.” The...
View ArticleKos "Democrats Arrayed", Netroots Nation 2023 and the promise of unity
In the dog days of summer 2022 I attended the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh. I remember being surprised, and pleased when political blogger Markos Moulitsas "Kos" made an optimistic...
View ArticleJosh Hawley is the most vulnerable Republican Senator. Lucas Kunce can beat...
www.lucaskunce.comTo keep control of the US Senate we need a pickup unless Dems completely run the table. IF, and it’s a big IF, we keep Senate seats in Montana, Nevada and Ohio AND we keep the Vice...
View ArticleYes! We Can Beat Josh Hawley in Missouri
xxYouTube Video Josh Hawley is the least popular incumbent US Senator. Only 43% of Missourians approve of his scampering sophistry. He excels only in jerkness, even more than overturning elections,...
View ArticleLucas Kunce raises $5.4 million in '23, unites Labor, to send Josh Hawley...
In the fourth quarter of 2023, Lucas Kunce raised $1.54 million, bringing his 2023 total to a whopping $5.4 million raised for his campaign to defeat Josh Hawley, the most unpopular Republican...
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