I'm very excited to announce that Swing State Project has upgraded Josh Zeitz's vigorous challenge to Republican and anti-choice House caucus chair Chris Smith. The NJ-04 race has now been dubbed a 'Race to Watch' by the well-respected site.

Blue Jersey has also reported on the upgrade.

In NJ-4, Josh Zeitz got some welcome news as his race has been added to the list of Races to watch. This will certainly be good for the Zeitz campaign as they try to keep up the momentum they've been building.  It's also good to see the continuing expansion of the playing field.

We at the campaign are hopeful that you'll join in the momentum (Josh-mentum?-just kidding). Please come to Josh's website and consider making a contribution. You can also contact ian_at_joshzeitz_dot_com if you want to volunteer.

hris Myers is the GOP candidate in NJ-3rd Congressional district.  Given his lackluster fundraising thus far, you can forgive him for being a little cranky.  But his outright contempt for the progressive Netroots even caught me by surprise.

One of my favorite Disney movies as a child was Beauty and the Beast. From a child who was born with a thrill for taking ugly, mean things and making them beautiful (I was really into painting old furniture), you could see the appeal: a stubborn and self-serving beast was transformed into a sweet, giving prince through the healing power of love. Oh, if only real life was this idyllic.

Unfortunately, in the real world, wealth and power don't magically yield to justice and conscience, even if it's presented as such on the surface. Take oil tycoon and bill-footer of last election's Swift Boat crusade T. Boone Pickens. Pickens has been on a $58 million publicity tour to promote his plan to erect wind turbines in the Midwest.

Well, we have recently been told that McCain is not whining about the media.

Maybe that is so.  

Maybe it is because he doesn't have to bother, since he has Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee to do it for him.

Not only is "Mike" Duncan whining about the media, he is whining about you: "the Democrats and their leftist allies".  Your "radical groups" connected with "Big Labor" and the "liberal Media".

This is what good-ole Mike thinks of you, as of about three minutes ago when it hit my Inbox:

If John McCain is hoping to pick up a running mate from the exorcist/snake handler wing of the Republican Party, it will not be Bobby Jindal. According to Faux News, Jindal has taken himself out of the running.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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No, I'm pretty sure that John McCain has control of his faculties.  My question is really about the American people.  Hello?  Are you watching, gang?  Do you see this?

How can this avoid your field of view?  How can you possibly miss this?

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Francis L. Holland,  Esq.
Afrosphere Action Coalition (AAC)
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July 23, 2008

Dear bloggers:

RE: Widget Action:  "End Police Pre-Trial, Extra-Judicial Electrocutions and Executions" (Tasering)

Please consider placing one of these anti-taser widgets (various sizes available) at your blog, in preparation for a day of blogging against police pre-trial,
extra-judicial electrocution and execution of members of the public.

The widgets lead readers to a new "Electrocuted While Black" blog
(by African American Political Pundit and me), where we will link to all of the blogs that have notified us by e-mail that they have joined the anti-electrocution (taser) campaign by adopting one of these widgets.

Subsequently, the Afrosphere Action Coalition (AAC) will call for a day of blogging on the issue, and then issue a press release
including the names and links of the participating afrosphere blogs.

In spite of police claims that electrocuting Blacks and other members of the public is necessary and normally harmles, research reveals that 600 pound bears and
one thousand pound moose are often treated by game wardens with greater care for their wellbeing and integrity than are members of the public when confronted by police officers armed with electrocution/execution devices.