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.
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
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
TPM Reader AM responds to the question of whether Christine O’Donnell bungled the Establishment Clause in today’s debate by laying down some serious theo-political history:
Nice citation of Jefferson in your article this a.m. — #Conlawfail? Indeed Jefferson did cite the separation between church and state in his letter to the Danbury Baptists. But he wasn’t the source. He borrowed from Rhode Island’s Roger Williams who, in 1644, decried the deleterious effects of the world on the church:
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