We See People
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Just a short note to say that we were happy to see all the bloggers at the bloggers caucus, one of the most interesting of the day. Shout outs to A Little Pollyanna and Pink Dome who I was thrilled to chat with in person. Saw Tim McCann from the Chris Bell blog, but didn't have a chance to say hi. Also, I'd like to direct you to the Kos at DemFest blog.
I also wanted to point out that Judge Charlie Baird, formerly on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and one of the last Democratic judges elected to statewide office, is a candidate for the 299th Judicial District Court in Travis County, and has hired Austin political guru and former Texas Dean campaign director Glen Maxey.
In addition, it was brought to my attention a candidate against Mike Krusse up in Williamson County is Karen Felthauser, who last ran as a write in in 2004. This time she will actually be on the ballot as a Democrat and has a kick off reception on June 22 (next Wednesday). So all you Williamson County folks, check her out and help us make a Democratic takeover of Central Texas.
In addition, I ran in Lorenzo Sadun, of the Write In Sadun campaign for CD 10 which ended up without a Dem on the ballot last year. He reports that he is working with a candidate from out in Harris County on building his contacts here on the Austin side (yes, Houston and Austin in the same congressional seat) and to make sure that the Travis County folks are on board and energized. He's back to teaching Math here at UT but is still making sure that the voters of the 10th have a choice and know about it come November 2006.
Throughout the night, recently elected Fredericksburg SuperStar Tom Musselman has been talking to a lot of people, speaking at the non-urban caucus in particular. He also spoke to Jim Dean, Howard's brother who is now the Big Dog over at Democracy for America, which just broke their first post Dean bat, again, at $100,000. Traded some business cards, exchanged some words and strategy, all in the middle of Threadgill's where everybody who was anybody was tonight (meaning like all of DemFest!)
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at June 18, 2005 03:20 AM
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It was great to meet you at the Caucus! We will all work together to keep the energy flowing.
LGRL, with the anti-Gay Marriage Amendment being one of the campaigns represented at the Caucus, got a huge response to the forms their new Field Director circulated among the Bloggers asking folks to sign up for the fight against Discrimination, so we are already well on our way to making a differnece as a blogging community in the real world.
See you around DemFest the next couple of days.
