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teddyk23

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:32 PM
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new conyers site

For DU'ers, a sneak preview of the not quite yet fully functional Conyersblog (the conyersblog link on the main site does not go to the new blog yet).

Comments section is now live. Go to www.Conyersblog.us.

Should be fully integrated into main site in the next day or so.

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paineinthearse

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:37 PM
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1. teddyk23

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 12:40 PM by paineinthearse

Welcome to DU. :hi:

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paineinthearse

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Mon Mar-21-05 12:41 PM
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2. Paid For And Authorized By Friends of John Conyers, Jr.

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 01:16 PM by paineinthearse

Paid For And Authorized By Friends of John Conyers, Jr.
M. Mickey Williams, Treasurer
8503 Marygrove Drive
Detroit, Michigan 48221
Phone: 313-438-2004
Email: campaign@johnconyers.com

This is VERY INSPIRING. Rep. Conyers ROCKS. The blog is chock full of great posts by John, including his recent interview with RAW STORY & a cooperative effort with Brad Friedman, the Director of VelvetRevolution.

Every DU're should add this to their favorites and thank Rep. Conyers for his unfaultering work.

Nominated for greatest.

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paineinthearse

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:12 PM
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3. I'm like a kid in a candy store!!!!!

Want to communicate with John Conyers directly on any of these issues? By my guest.

There is even a place to add a link. This is a way that we can cross-post to relevant DU articles.

Cross-blogging.....BRILLIANT!

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Nothing Without Hope

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Mon Mar-21-05 08:29 PM
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9. Cross-blogging - what a concerpt. And there is also Blogstorming

or, as it is also termed, Blogswarming as described here:

http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2005/03/blogswarm_on_te.html

Thanks for this excellent site! How inspiring to consider that it's possble to communicate directly with Rep. Conyers! He has to take care of his constituents, but he really represents ALL of us!

Recommended!

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Amaryllis

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Tue Mar-22-05 12:16 AM
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16. Please explain cross blogging?

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Nothing Without Hope

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Tue Mar-22-05 01:20 AM
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19. It's Paine's term, one post up from mine. Since we can post on Conyers'

site with a link to relevant DU threads, he's calling that cross-blogging. That way, someone reading Conyers' blog (or Conyers himself) can also tune in on further information at DU, a sort of expansion and opportunity for cross-fertilization. Maybe Paine has some additional ideas on this, but this is what it meant to me.

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paineinthearse

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Tue Mar-22-05 01:31 AM
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20. You said it better than I could.

Did I coin a term?

Yikes. Didn't mean to.

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bleever

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:18 PM
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4. Excellent! Check it out. n/t

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Wilms

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Mon Mar-21-05 01:43 PM
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5. .

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MelissaB

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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6. Nominating and

kicking

:kick:

I love this man!

:loveya:

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bear425

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:46 PM
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7. Excellent. Thanks! n/t

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POAS

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Mon Mar-21-05 06:01 PM
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8. John Conyers a hero of mine

Glad to learn about this blog and I am looking forward to visiting to hear from Mr. Conyers often.

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hootinholler

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Mon Mar-21-05 09:03 PM
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10. Nuther Kick.

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torque

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Mon Mar-21-05 09:34 PM
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11. kick

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Liberty Belle

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:00 PM
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12. Geat Site! DUers, let's boost support for the FEC to protect bloggers.

Write your Congressional Reps and ask them to contact the FCC, too!

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Califooyah Operative

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Mon Mar-21-05 10:15 PM
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13. he's got an election reform petition

http://www.johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={CAAC2381-7698-403F-97BA-9257E7DE8484}

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Wilms

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Mon Mar-21-05 11:06 PM
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14. kick n/t

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Nothing Without Hope

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Mon Mar-21-05 11:12 PM
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15. He's added some blog entries on the Terry Schiavo case

They Trashed the Place

The Meaning of Congressional Meddling in the Terri Schiavo case
And Other Disrespect for American Institutions

I have known David Broder for a long time. However, from time to time, we disagree. One such instance was when he was reported to have said of President Clinton (during the Clinton impeachment), "He came in here and he trashed the place and it's not his place." Broder apparently reflected a widespread disdain for President Clinton among well-known and influential Washington pundits and journalists. Many rightly felt the national dialogue, and the Georgetown cocktail party chatter, was coarsened by the widespread currency given to graphic sexual descriptions contained in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report. Where Broder and others were wrong was in their assessment of blame -- it was Starr and Congressional Republicans, not President Clinton, that foisted salacious material on the American public. Not only was the "place" being trashed, but democracy itself was being trashed, by the ruthless use of constitutional powers for political gain by Congressional Republicans.

Today, our institutions are under an even greater assault. The most immediate example is the meddling of Congress and President Bush in the Terri Schiavo case. Early this morning, the House passed and the President signed into law, a bill that would cast aside state court litigation in the Schiavo matter and send the matter instead to a preordained federal court (where supporters of the bill hope for a preordained outcome). More importantly, the bill turns Florida law and, indeed, more than 200 years of common law on its head, by eviscerating the right of Schiavo's husband to communicate her wishes.

Make no mistake about it, with this bill, Congress has usurped the roles of courts, of doctors, of priests, of parents, and of spouses. This presents a dire and immediate threat to our democratic system of government. And it is only the beginning.

(snip)

In the next-later entry, he has more on Schiavo (with link to his statement on the legislation) and also on voting reform.

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Amaryllis

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Tue Mar-22-05 12:20 AM
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17. Do you guys get scared when you read things like this? Did the Germans

watching the rise of the third Reich feel this way? Like they could see the writing on the wall, but it's like trying to stop a runaway freight train?

But, we have the internet...a way to organize and quickly disseminate info. That is one difference.

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Nothing Without Hope

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Tue Mar-22-05 12:40 AM
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18. Yes - the internet is critically important as the last Free Press

and we must protect it. Of course they want to shut it down, the moreso as we prove more able to embarrass and block their schemes.

But, we have the internet...a way to organize and quickly disseminate info. That is one difference.

Yes, I've written almost the same words many times - it's what we must take advantage of. They don't contol ALL information, though they are trying.

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loritooker

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Tue Mar-22-05 01:37 AM
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21. John Conyers writes very nicely. Thanks!

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Wilms

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Tue Mar-22-05 02:29 AM
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22. Nifty ! n/t

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Pallas180

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Tue Mar-22-05 02:32 PM
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23. He gives you great info on what's going on in DC -important that WE

give him feedback so that he can know how many are wise to the
fascist gop govt.

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