Kay Brown, Communication Director for the Alaska Democratic Party, has, almost single-handedly, steered that party in a more progressive direction on a par with Democratic Party organizations outside of Alaska. She spearheaded efforts there to attempt to get accurate information from the Murkowski - and now the Palin - administrations on details of discrepancies between hand-written precinct information, Division of Elections published data, and the embedded information on the 2006 election held as proprietary information by the Diebold Company, the maker of our two most widely used electronic voting machines.She has been a hallmark of stability at Dem HQ, while party chair Jake Metcalfe used party resources to prepare to launch his US House campaign, and, most recently, while current Party Chair Patti Higgins looked around for better office space for US House candidate Ethan Berkowitz.
More than anyone else, Kay Brown has been the motivator behind the Democratic Party's efforts to make the upcoming Super Tuesday Party Caucuses a success with meaning, one that will help to build the Party here. I predict that, because of the efforts of Kay and others at the state and local levels in organization of the caucuses, we may make national news regarding the high number of people turning out to caucus.
Caucusing seems pretty retro compared to electronic balloting. But, even given the lack of privacy involved in caucusing, at least we can be sure our vote counts. As comparison, here's what Californians can look forward to on Super Tuesday:
MAYHEM EXPECTED IN CALIFORNIA ON SUPER TUESDAY, ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS!
Sheesh! Along with Kay Brown, the Alaskan to make the shortcomings" of electronic voting an important issue for us, is KUDO's Shannyn Moore. She has interviewed both Brad Friedman of Bradblog, and muckraker extraordinaire Greg Palast, on the perils of electronic voting on her late morning talk show. She commented here the other day that she hopes to be able to interview FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on the air soon. Some of Shannyn's recent work at KUDO seems to validate my post here back in December, titled The Arrogance of Pat Dougherty.
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I agree that Kay is a great lady and we are in her debt, but can you provide one iota of evidence to support the comment: "...party chair Jake Metcalfe used party resources to prepare to launch his US House campaign..."? Your implication is clear, and it's scurrilous.
I suppose that you, as a blogger, have no legal obligation to tell the truth, but one would think that some commitment to veracity should guide your efforts. Guess I'm just naive.
While I was helping on the prep for the launch of the "dropdon.com" site, Jake was clearly taking advantage of his position as chair to further HIS prep to announce for the Dem primary from DC. I predicted he would announce for the seat three weeks before he did, based on my observations of the way he appeared to be handling his party chair job.
After Jake announced, he ran his campaign from the IBEW office in Anchorage for a little over five weeks - August and the first week of September. You could call IBEW and ask for his campaign office. I did, and got through.
Since then, he's been on the up and up, but the way he started his campaign riled a lot of Democrats.
And that's the gospel truth....
When you have "progressives" for friends, who needs enemies?
Regarding the Daily Snooze: since Dahr Jamail first went to Iraq his Alaska friends have been urging, begging, threatening you name it to get the ADN to publish his articles. We have gotten nothing but an arrogant brush off from them. Dahr's reporting has been picked up by overseas services and alternative radio and TV such as Pacifica's FlashPoints and Democracy Now. His award winning journalism is the kind of work our country needed to make us aware of the disastrous lies that W and junta have been feeding to an eagerly compliant main stream media. You can read Dahr's work at
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/
Alaskans 4 Peace and Justice will be showing a DVD of a book talk that he and Jeremy Scahill gave in NYC this coming Feb 20th at Cafe Felix in Metro Music and Books on Benson in Anch. at 6:00pm
Dahr will be visiting Juneau, Anch and Fairbanks in mid March.
Our website http://www.alaskans4peace.org/
will give an update toward the end of Feb.
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