Ratigan has this guy on his show and they’re having a serious discussion of whether corporate America is brainwashing us into a culture of shoe-wearing.
Illinois Republican Party chairman Pat Brady tells TPM that the state party is in fact teaming up the Republican National Lawyers Association to train “voter integrity” squads for the midterm elections. But he says they’ve been doing this for years and are not targeting minority precincts. This comes after the RNLA’s executive director insisted to TPM that the “RNLA does not perform ANY operations. We merely train lawyers on how to ensure elections are open, fair and honest.”
Hmmm. Last we checked, Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller was saying he was required by the local middle school to bring a security detail to the school for his event. But now it turns out they say that’s not true, they didn’t require him to bring a security detail. And at least two of the ‘security’ guards Miller brought with him (and who detained one journalist and threatened to detain two others) were active duty members of the military — apparently moonlighting without permission from their superiors.
Given that Miller yesterday said we should look to the example of the former East Germany as a model of effective border security, I feel like we’re starting to get a clearer picture of what Miller’s all about.
Meet Jimmy McMillan, the founder and gubernatorial nominee of the three-person official New York state political party named The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party.
McMillan got a chance to participate in last night’s gubernatorial debate, and as Rachel Slajda puts it, he “stole the show with his one-liners, remarkable facial hair and black gloves.”
I mentioned earlier the Dem Aqua Buddhist movement coalescing around Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway. Not Conway seems to trying to build on the movement momentum. Here’s the lede grafs from a fundraising email he just sent out … Read More
ICYMI: Vote suppressors in Nevada decide to just come clean: run ads telling Latino voters just not to vote.
Late Update: Our Brian Beutler interviews the guy behind the ad.
It seems Joe Miller’s personal security team threatened to ‘detain’ other reporters too. See the video.
Rasmussen’s had Conway real far back all year. But he just released his new poll and it shows Conway moving from 11 points to 5 points back in three weeks.