"Democrats really are in more of a roll out the tumbrels sort of mood this year; might be nice if they could be a bit more careful about not trying to throw other Dems into them." Amen. I wouldn't be disappointed if the debate tonight lacks "drama" (food fights)
I like Cory, and I think he is an important voice in the Democratic Party and the country.
But mostly, this news pisses me off for a different reason - we haven't even had a single fucking primary, and we've already seen quality candidates with great ideas and passion and energy fall by the wayside... not because voters didn't vote for them - that's how it's supposed to work - but because they couldn't put together enough financing to get them through the YEAR of running BEFORE the running begins. And yet, while Harris and Booker and Gillibrand and Castro and Swalwell and Inslee are all out, two billionaires bought their way in.
When he was Central Ward Council Member, he staged a sleep-out at the Garden Spires housing project to draw attention to its problems, sleeping by night in a camp cot under a tent. By day, he brought in experts to work with the tenants. During the night. He also fasted.
The event got a lot of ink, and he and then-Mayor Sharpe James ended the "Camp Cory" by climbing a city cherry-picker to cut sneakers from a phone line to symbolize unity and commitment to defeating drugs, but:
1. Sharpe and Cory didn't get along.2. There was a huge mobile Police Command Post right there to make sure nobody stole Cory's stuff or killed him while he was snoozing there.
Like Marc Zuckerberg.
Or Jeff Bezos.
He also lacks the will to take on corporations.
"Democrats really are in more of a roll out the tumbrels sort of mood this year; might be nice if they could be a bit more careful about not trying to throw other Dems into them." Amen. I wouldn't be disappointed if the debate tonight lacks "drama" (food fights)
I like Cory, and I think he is an important voice in the Democratic Party and the country.
But mostly, this news pisses me off for a different reason - we haven't even had a single fucking primary, and we've already seen quality candidates with great ideas and passion and energy fall by the wayside... not because voters didn't vote for them - that's how it's supposed to work - but because they couldn't put together enough financing to get them through the YEAR of running BEFORE the running begins. And yet, while Harris and Booker and Gillibrand and Castro and Swalwell and Inslee are all out, two billionaires bought their way in.
That's just fucked up in every possible way.
When he was Central Ward Council Member, he staged a sleep-out at the Garden Spires housing project to draw attention to its problems, sleeping by night in a camp cot under a tent. By day, he brought in experts to work with the tenants. During the night. He also fasted.
The event got a lot of ink, and he and then-Mayor Sharpe James ended the "Camp Cory" by climbing a city cherry-picker to cut sneakers from a phone line to symbolize unity and commitment to defeating drugs, but:
1. Sharpe and Cory didn't get along.2. There was a huge mobile Police Command Post right there to make sure nobody stole Cory's stuff or killed him while he was snoozing there.
He's an interesting guy.
Yeah, but it still makes for some entertaining television. That is, of course, if the fuckin' fate of the country wasn't hanging on by a thread...
I was all-in for Williamson but now hoping for a brokered convention with a Gwyneth Paltrow/Vaginal Egg ticket as the result.
I've got my "Gwynny/Egg - Steaming Hot!" bumper sticker and everything.
Wanna bet they both wind up in the next Cabinet?
God, I hope so!!!!
Thank you for showing class, OHJB.
I heard Booker speak just last Tuesday (sob!) and he had a whole running joke about the security threat posed by Trudeaus luscious locks.
finally the guy who scheduled 1980s teen idols Haim and Feldman to be on talk shows can have some rest
It is not easy to get yelled at.
Next time take the PAC money, Cory.
Thanks, Dok. I really like Booker.