Progressive Democrat Issue 219

Back from a nice vacation. If you like, you can read about it here and see a few pictures of Jacob here.

Quite a lot going on, isn't there. Republicans (Sanford and Ensign) showing that their holier-than-thou attitudes are nothing more than facades covering a whole load of hypocrisy. And seems even groping pundits is on the list of Republican fetishes. Meanwhile we now learn that Cheney ordered the CIA to lie to Congress and the Bush Administration covered up a massacre in Afghnanistan. The Sotomayor hearings are coming up and the Republicans are going to have a very hard time stopping the approval of this excellent nominee. And of course Palin's very bizarre behavior...oh boy I hope she runs for President in 2012! She will drag the Republican party down even further.

Mostly I ignored all that was going on the past two weeks. But now I am back and will start catching up. I am reprising some articles (some updated) because they are still relavent. I also have largely suspended the "articles of interest" parts of the local pages until I have time to start them up again. They tend to take time to compile. Also adding a Minnesota focus page to help highlight some good candidates.

Here is this week's newsletter:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Veterans for Energy Independence

Boycott Chevron-Texaco

Fight Bank of America

NYC Focus: Superfund the Gowanus

Brooklyn, NY Focus

Queens, NY Focus

Bronx, NY Focus

Rochester, NY Focus

NEW YORK STATE FOCUS

Silicon Valley, CA Focus

Orange County, CA Focus

San Diego, CA Focus

CALIFORNIA FOCUS

MINNESOTA FOCUS

MICHIGAN FOCUS

PENNSYLVANIA FOCUS

Austin/Travis County, TX Focus

Houston/Harris County, TX Focus

Dallas County, TX Focus

TEXAS FOCUS

Georgia Democrats Work

GEORGIA FOCUS

Sussex County, NJ Focus

NEW JERSEY FOCUS

VIRGINIA FOCUS

NORTH CAROLINA FOCUS

COLORADO FOCUS

Jacksonville, FL Campaign Training

FLORIDA FOCUS

WISCONSIN FOCUS

WASHINGTON FOCUS

Tempe, AZ Campaign Focus

ARIZONA FOCUS

IOWA FOCUS

NEVADA FOCUS

ILLINOIS FOCUS