Polinaut: March 2, 2006 Archive

Briefing - Thursday March 2, 2006

Posted at 7:38 AM on March 2, 2006 by Bob Collins (9 Comments)

Nothing earth-shattering but Townhall.com has a little profile of the 6th District from Chicago writer Daniel Sullivan. "Sixth...Sixth...Sixth....that's all we hear about...sixth...sixth...sixth," District 1-5, and 7-8 were heard to mumble.

For your calendar, “The Media, Public Policy and the Age of Indifference,” is seminar scheduled for March 25th at St. Thomas. 8:30 a.m.-5p.m. Guests include Featured speakers will be David Mindich, chair of the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at St. Michael’s College, and Deborah Howell, ombudsman for the Washington Post. I think MPR news boss Bill Wareham is in there somewhere too.

Mark Kennedy is on Midday today at 11. City Pages has a little blurb on Kennedy's success raising dough from the execs at Target Corporation. Newsmeat has some of Richard Ullrich Robert Ulrich's campaign contributions in Minnesota. He gave money to both Mark Kennedy and Amy Klobuchar. In fact, judging by this list, Klobuchar is the only Democrat he gave money to.

Strategic Vision has a new poll out from New York. Forty-seven percent said they do not think of George Bush as a conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan. Sixty-one percent oppose overturning Roe V. Wade. Eighty-percent expect another terrorist attack here.

Future Tense has more with Christa Heibel, the CEO of CH Consulting and architect and developer of the data-mining CD that is expected to be in the mail on Friday.

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The future of political Web sites and blogs

Posted at 1:32 PM on March 2, 2006 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

I'm not a big reader of Daily Kozs. I have it on my RSS (bloglines) but usually don't bother seeing what they're running because it's Washington-centric. But I think there's an article there today that is of interest to political junkies of all stripes. In The Return of H.R. 1606, there's a good look at the question of how political activity online should be regulated -- or whether it should be.

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Can you hear me now?

Posted at 1:48 PM on March 2, 2006 by Bob Collins

Well, yeah, that was kinda painful listening to 5 minutes of technical problems during Rep. Mark Kennedy's appearance on the Meet the Candidate series today. So I've edited out all the garbage and isolated the portion of the show featuring Kennedy. It's on his page on the Campaign 2006 site.

(Update 3:08 p.m. -- I've just about finished slicing up the program and isolating the answers by issue. On the same page.)

Pawlenty on the CD

Posted at 3:27 PM on March 2, 2006 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)

Gov. Tim Pawlenty today weighed in on the controversy surrounding the CD being distributed by the Republican Party in support of a constitutional amendment defining marriage. The CD actually accumulates data from those who put it in their computer -- including, but not limited to, responses to questions it asks.

Pawlenty today said the CDs should make clear that the CD is mining information. Listen.

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Jumping in

Posted at 10:25 PM on March 2, 2006 by Bob Collins

Cloquet Mayor Bruce Ahlgren is going to announce his candidacy for state Senate in District 8 on Friday. That would be the seat presently occupied by gubernatorial candidate Becky Lourey.