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Going to see Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? over the holiday.

It’ll be at Facet’s Cinematheque from Friday to the 31st and it is absolutely a must see. You can even get a brief glimpse of me tired, drunk and sunburnt. If you are interested in grassroots campaigns either from the perspective of being an activist or an operative the film is fantastic. I have no financial stake in the film, though I’m friends with the producers and know the filmmaker pretty well by now.

It won the SilverDocs Audience award, it’s up for the International Documentary Association award and is one of fifteen finalists to be a nominee for the Academy Awards.

For those of you who don’t know it, Jeff is a friend of mine from grad school and is now State Senator elect in Missouri. It puts grassroots campaigns in a good context and I think the lessons hit equally on those in the grassroots and those who are professionals. And the movie is extremely well done and Frank has told a story very entertainingly.

So go see it–you won’t be disappointed.

Oh, and for the Republicans out there, as a Republican friend of mine said about the movie:

First, let me alleviate the concerns of my fellow conservatives skeptical of plunking down their after-tax cash to see this film. I know what you’re thinking, and don’t worry — the movie is long on nuts-and-bolts campaign strategy and short on liberal poppycock. Replace Jeff’s riff that “every child should have the right to see a doctor” with “stop having babies you can’t support” and the movie’s subject could have been a Republican.