by
Sam Garchik
on Sat 22 Apr 2006 06:40 AM CDT
Iowa Blog Roundup
By Sam Garchik
I just figured out how to subscribe to Feedblitz's blog email. I enter the blog urls that I want to read, and then every morning, I get an email with updates from those blogs. This save's a lot of time net surfing. Plus, I can pass on the morsels to you. Here's what happened last week in the Iowa blogosphere:
Wilentz Slams Shrub in Stone
Sean Wilentz, author of Chants Democratic and most recently, The Rise of American Democracy, claims shrub could be the worst president ever in a recent article in Rolling Stone. The article is well written, and of course, true in every word. I was pointed to the article by Left Coast of Iowa Blog and Woodbury Democrat. Woodbury also pointed out this hilarious poster, reminding you all to get your vote on in 2006.
Left Coast's Support Peace magnet was stolen by some unknown bandit. Apparently, some cry babies have nothing better to do than point out that their side isn't getting enough attention.
High Cost of TV
Krusty Konservative had an interesting post about the high cost of TV ads. Apparently, it costs about $8,000 a day to run ads on one TV station, KWQC. That's a ton of money to run ads statewide for a week, and getting all that money requires a lot of phone calls and a lot of promises. BFIA already believes in fair elections, and this just proves why more reform is needed.
Schedules and Happenings
Thanks to Political Forecast for telling us that two gubernatorial forums were announced. One will be Tuesday, April 25th in Cedar Rapids, and the other on Saturday May 6th in Des Moines.
Russ Feingold is coming to Cedar Rapids and Iowa City on April 28th.
Meanwhile, Mark Warner is making the blog rounds. Political Forecast, Who's Makin Bacon (site currently down), and DrewMiller.net say Warner's campaign is doing some serious reaching out. To date, Warner has not contacted BFIA, but he's welcome to pay me a visit anytime.
Elesha Gayman is looking to get 20 volunteers to help her canvass on May 13. If you are available, to help her campaign hit 1,000 doors, meet up with her at 9:30 on May 13 at the North Scott High School parking lot in Eldridge. RSVP at http://www.dfalink.com/invitation.php?id=834364
That's it for this week. Keep the emails and the blogging going. And come back next week for another round of Iowa Blog Roundup at the same blog time and same blog address.
