Political doodles - April 12, 2006

Posted at 8:03 AM on April 12, 2006 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

As I continue to move... slowly... toward getting Select A Candidate done (the governor's race SAC will be done before the Senate), I still have a few issues to try to get a straight answer from the candidates on. One of them is agriculture. It's not exactly a source of great philosophical pronouncements in the campaign for U.S. Senate so far. So it's interesting to note the Marshall Independent, a good newspaper in farm country, has Ford Bell's take on the issue in an article today.

On the ballot front, the House Transportation Finance Committee yesterday changed the ballot question that might be on November's ballot regarding how to spend motor vehicle sales taxes. Before it wasn't broken down between highways and transit. Now it is: 60% for highways, 40% for transit. Votetracker is tracking (otherwise I'd have called it VoteStandingAroundDoingNothing) but I've got some more work to do on it today.

The U Daily has an article today on retiring Rep. Martin Sabo. However, it looks like they mostly regurgitated quotes from his retirement speech. I'm waiting for the question, "who are you voting for in the primary?"

Kennedy v. the Machine asks today why Amy Klobuchar's campaign said former campaign manager Jessica Vanden Berg was staying on as an advisor when Ben Goldfarb was brought in as campaign manager? According to a Raleigh newspaper, Vanden Berg has turned up as the campaign manager for Virginia Senate candidate James Webb. Dems have a primary battle there.

Comments (1)

It looks as if Vanden Berg left one campaign in which she had one job for a differnt campaign with a better job. *Gasp*

I'm really starting to miss Gary.

Posted by rew | April 12, 2006 9:23 AM

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