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Dave Mooney Press Release
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 09/03/2006 - 08:12Last night, I was contacted by Dave Mooney, who is running for State Representative in the 120th Assembly District, which covers part of Stratford. He was building a list of bloggers to send his press releases out to.
Later in the evening, I received Mooney State Rep Campaign Energized for November Election. Dave has been running a very energetic campaign for several months and it is great to see him reaching out to bloggers.
In memoriam
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 09/02/2006 - 17:58
The empty boots facing backwards in the stirrups commemorate a fallen soldier
My comment about Nicco and EchoDitto...
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 08/28/2006 - 20:52(Here is a comment that I added over on EchoDitto's blog concerning the decision of their CEO to take a leave of absence.)
I have known Nicco since he worked with the Dean campaign and I was a volunteer. I have been a client of EchoDitto. I consider Nicco a friend and EchoDitto a firm that I respect. How Nicco and EchoDitto address his support of Sen. McCain is not a simple issue.
Individuals have a responsibility to think about whom they will support and then to show their support. Nicco has said that he supports John McCain. I applaud him for standing up for what he believes. Personally, I do not support Sen. McCain. I don’t see how people can. But that is politics and I hope there will be a vigorous debate.
Corporations have a responsibility to their stakeholders. They need to act in such away as to maintain profits, treat employees fairly and not alienate clients. Unfortunately, too many corporations do not act responsible in all these ways. Political campaigns have responsibilities to the candidates and their supporters. One responsibility is to find the best services, and using a firm that has a CEO supporting a candidate from an opposing party may not be in the best interest of the campaign.
I believe that Nicco and EchoDitto have acted responsibly in confronting the clash that has occurred. I applaud both, yet I still hope that someone can get Nicco to look beyond McCain’s work on campaign finance reform and question whether or not, in the big picture, Sen. McCain is someone that should lead our country.
Superfund, made personal
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 08/27/2006 - 11:46(Originally posted on DailyKos.)
On June 30th, 1992 a Burlington Northern train derailed while crossing a bridge over the Nemadji River near Superior Wisconsin. A tank of benzene ruptured and over 40,000 people were evacuated. To paraphrase an old quote, the evacuation of 40,000 people is a statistic, the leukemia of one is a tragedy.
This was brought home to me today as I read Barbara’s Diary on DailyKos about her sister Betti. Her diary starts off, “What do you do when you begin your Saturday like most others with heading to ride my horse and work on some horses and you receive a call from your niece saying that her mother (my sister-Betti) is in NICU bleeding in her brain.”
She goes on to talk about “Betti having been diagnosed with AML (an acute luekemia that is pretty deadly) due as a result of a 1992 train derailment in Superior, Wisconsin that dumped TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND TONS OF BENZENE...this happened a mile from her farm.” Betti is 51 and has no medical insurance.
There has been an outpouring of support for Barbara and Betti on DailyKos and I am adding my prayers for Betti and for everyone who is touched by this tragedy. But I also wanted to find out a little bit more about the whole story.
Fighting poverty one click at a time
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 08:19(Cross posted on the OAC Blog)
Today, I received an email about GoodSearch. It is a search engine that contributes a penny to a charity of your choice every time you use them for a websearch.
After checking around a little bit, I’ve set my charity of choice to One.Org. (Not to be confused with One America Committee). So, every time I do a search, a penny will go to One.Org, The Campaign to Make Poverty History.
I use Firefox as my web browser, and so I’ve set the little search box in the upper right hand corner, which I use all the time, to default to GoodSearch. I use that search box a lot, so I suspect that my searches are going to add up. I’ve also just set up my wife’s computer to use GoodSearch and contribute to Habitat for Humanity.
Are you using GoodSearch? Which charity are you contributing to?
