So, I've wondered what will happen to Harris County candidates' ads because of Hurricane Ike. What's the right balance to strike in taking your campaign to the airwaves. One has to be respectful, yet you do have to continue on with the campaign to offer voters education about the candidates.
Here's an example from David Mincberg who's running for Harris County Judge. Thoughts?
John Cornyn has voted with George W. Bush more than 95% of the time and has taken $1.3 million from big oil companies while Texans are facing skyrocketing gas prices. He's taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug and insurance companies while cutting health care benefits to Texas children and keeping drug costs high for Texas seniors.
And now, he wants us to believe he'll bring change to Washington? Who does he think he's kidding?
Remember, you can help Rick fight back for just $1 in the ongoing Blue America PAC contest.
Titled "Big John" (overcompensating much?), this ad was created by Senator John Cornyn's staff and aired at last week's State Republican Convention in Houston.
Maybe Cornyn has a sense how ridiculous this ad looks as he was quoted by the Austin American-Stateman saying...
"My staff convinced me it was a good idea," Cornyn said. "Maybe I need a new staff."
Maybe we just need a new Senator. Support Rick Noriega.
Big John Cornyn had to speak at a convention,
Oh my, what to say, with all that attention!
He queried his staff, they dwelled on the matter,
'Til finally they settled on iambic quadrameter!
"A cowboy to narrate! Some bales of hay!"
Then Cornyn responded, "but isn't that gay?"
"Nay" said his staffers, "It's rugged, and tough!
It's hard-working and white; you'll look crazy buff!"
So Cornyn agreed and they made this video,
It's shockingly gay; they thought it was witty yo!
Dear god, it's hilarious, to a cosmic degree,
'Cause this is what happens when egos run free.
P.S. Rick Noriega just passed 8000 online donors! Pile on.
Today our campaign released a new ad, entitled "Only One," which details a hostage situation in Iraq that then-Congressman Richardson was called upon to defuse. In the 60-second spot, Bill Barloon, the late David Daliberti, and his wife Kathy Daliberti praise Richardson for obtaining the release of the two men from Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in July 1995.
If the site is slow or even down at times today, we're aware of it. From what I can tell it's because of upgrades and updates to the Soapblox network and server. Just wanted to let you know so you don't have to e-mail or IM us.
In addition, if you read the site live and not via RSS, you have probably noticed that there are new ads in the extended entries of posts. BOR is part of a one month trial with Google which is testing new video ad content so for the next 3 weeks those will be taking the place of the flatter text ad units that were embedded in the individual entries. Check them out, I'd be curious as to hear what your feedback is.
Additionally, you will notice new flash style BlogAds to the left- two of which are running right now. One is for Chris Dodd's bill to restore Habeas Corpus while the other is for John Kerry's push to set a deadline to end the war in Iraq. You can actually submit the information in the ads without ever leaving this blog- cool new stuff.
It's been more than a year since John Courage announced his bid to run for Congress in Congressional District 21. It was September 17, 2005 on the Texas State Capitol grounds that John started this political journey. A bus full of supporters came along on that announcement tour. Change was in the air.
(You have voted 4 times on-line, have you voted yet in real life? - promoted by Matt Glazer)
On behalf of Team Courage, and from the bottom of my own heart, I want to say THANK YOU to the blogosphere, the Netroots, and all of the voters who helped me win another online victory yesterday. At 7:01 p.m. EST, we learned that we were one of the three winners in John Kerry's PAC's "3 at the Buzzer" poll. Along with my fine Democratic colleagues, Senate candidate Jim Webb and congressional candidate Dan Seals, we are honored to have garnered the most online votes in the field of 17 Netroots candidates, terrific challengers all.
The prize is to be featured in Sen. Kerry's final fundraising email of this election season. With more than 3 million email recipients in his list, Sen. Kerry can give us a major boost at this critical point in the campaign.
Yes, believe your eyes. It's an Open Thread and a Texas Round-Up in one. Mindblowing.
I've created 2 new BlogAd strips here on BOR. One is a premium strip to run above the standard one at the left. The other is an exclusive strip for one ad to run just to the right. As you've noticed, there are a lot of ads right now so I'm creating some new options.
Will you help John Courage get over $40,000 mark on the combined Netroots ActBlue page? The campaign is doing the last of its TV buys. They will be releasing an Ethics commercial on Monday.
Barak Obama was in Austin today for a book signing. Now that Mark Warner is supposedly out of the 2008 Presidential race, I have to say that I'm attracted to Obama. Of course, I'd more attracted if while he was in town, he'd lend aid to Texas Democrats. This is like the 3rd time he's been in Austin and done nothing publicly to help Texas Democrats while here.
You can now sound off about Texas' 35-31 win over Tech.
