Michael in Chicago isn’t very happy with me I’m sure, but let me say some of the flack he’s taking is a bit much. It was dumb to not disclose being paid by a campaign even if it was for other work, but I’ll take a guess and say that he thought his statement was clear in saying he’s not being paid to blog—the way I read it is that he was being paid, just not to blog.
He should have been more clear, but I doubt he was trying to deceive anyone. I haven’t seen the context, but he had to know it would be in the FEC reports. I saw him in there and didn’t think twice about it.
I can’t believe that nobody thought Michael was in the can for Cegelis. The guy had something up on some webblog every chance he got. Some of it was crap but look what he was working with. The Latinos for Dean and the PDA endorsement (who the hell are these guys) were real howlers.
As far as I am concerned, he was the only person “within” that campaign to bring any visibility to her campaign using free media. I think the week that Duckworth declared her candidacy, Cegelis was being interviewed by the Naperville Shopper.
Like I said at mydd. I just always assumed Michael worked for the campaign. When the direct mail piece arrived, the one and only by the way, it read like all his scripts on the web. The Bridget Dooley robocall on election eve read like something he put forward during one of his blogs.
Speaking of which, was their anarchy at the Cegelis camapaign by that point. To let that robocall with Bridget Dooley sounding like some 8th grade middle school student (who knows, maybe she is) go out told me their side was in trouble.
So easy for pundits to comment on camapaigns. Perhaps they should run one. But instead, they have their parasitic blogs, and they think they are important. Not only are they out of touch with District 6 values; they are out of touch with politics and with themselves.
Losers. Gross. Overweight. Undereducated.
Here, here, writer penning under a fake name.
I have run campaigns (several federal and state), I am overeducated, my doctor doesn’t think I am too fat, I’m not poor (don’t tell my kids-they will never look for jobs then), and I have pretty good instincts for what voters are interested in.
Parasitic, now I think some Cegelis bloggers can identify with that one. If I were to tally the number of responses to any blog or diary posted by a Cegelis supporter over the last three months, I would guess that 80% to 90% of the respondents were Cegelis supporters as well. Based on that, who is parasitic.
“Losers. Gross. Overweight. Undereducated.”
I’m not quite sure what hurling insults has to do with ‘true’, ‘democrat’, ‘real’ or ‘authentic’.
Seems more like a Republican talent to me.
I see the xenophobic guy who also wasn’t running a campaign is a sore loser, too.
True, real and authentic, my ass.
===So easy for pundits to comment on camapaigns. Perhaps they should run one. But instead, they have their parasitic blogs, and they think they are important. Not only are they out of touch with District 6 values; they are out of touch with politics and with themselves.
Undereducated? LOL–that’s the first time anyone has suggested that to me.
Overweight–well, yeah, right now.
I was busy on a conference call for a State Senate race with folks from the Ford Campaign, Schumer’s office, two other DC professionals who do polling and organizing, and a few others including the candidate who was a field guy for Bradley in Iowa amongst other gigs yesterday afternoon. I’m not a professional at campaigns, but I do know something about them.
Sometimes being in the bubble of a campaign, you don’t listen to those who point out the problems. I’ve been there, but to a lesser degree.
TrueDemocratRealAuthentic sounds like Formalist at Kos, iylyavitz and illinois062006 at Kos and Soapblox, maybe even Tim the democrat at Kos.
A bit raw he is (in yoda voice)
No, I am true and real. You are wrong. You will never know me.