Both Mr Goodyear and the second aide to resign this weekend, Doug Davenport, worked for the lobbying firm DCI, the former as its chief executive.
Newsweek magazine revealed on Saturday that DCI was paid more than $300,000 (£150,000) by Burma's military leadership for lobbying work to improve its image in the US.
Offering his resignation as convention coordinator shortly afterwards, Mr Goodyear said he was standing down "so as not to become a distraction in this campaign".
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I am SO over Talking about Hillary!!!
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Morning :hug:
We will be boarding at 1200 hours...
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"there's a perception out there" that he's all style and no substance ?!
well I wonder where that comes from, with everyone repeating it over and over.
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Good morning Mala. How was your weekend?
Sounds like DC is getting the same weather we're having. We're only supposed to get up to the low 50's today.
Comcast, which has a history of censoring political content is STILL
abusing their monopoly power to suppress political speech. Last week
in San Francisco they REFUSED to accept the new Shirley Golub TV ad,
in her congressional primary challenge against Nancy Pelosi.
Stop Comcast Censorship Action Page:
http://www.shirley08.com/petitions/pnum835.php
Apparently they did not take kindly to Golub's comparison of the
political behavior of the current Speaker of the House to a rubber
chicken, for her cowardice in not standing up to the Bush
administration. But that's not their call, and in the meantime the 3
major non-cable broadcast outlets ARE running the ad and they all
think it's a delightful hoot.
The real problem is that Shirley wanted to place these ads
specifically to support Keith Olbermann on MSNBC cable, and Comcast
by their action is making it immensely harder for her to mobilize
those who are Olbermann's viewers, her natural base. It is simply
outrageous for Comcast to refuse to air perfectly acceptable
political speech because THEY don't like the content. We must flood
them with complaints, or Olbermann himself, with his own
uncompromising commentary, may not be far behind.
The action page above will send your message of complaint to Comcast
CEO Brian Roberts, and let Keith Olbermann and MSNBC know what's
going on.
With more that 30,000 YouTube views already this amazing TV ad is
having a real impact. It was a featured news story for a full news
cycle the first day it aired. And it is only because of your
contributions that this is happening. Please watch it again, and if
you can make a donation to run even more of these spots on the
stations that are accepting them, we can really put the heat on
Comcast.
Rubber Chicken TV Spot: http://www.shirley08.com/rubber_chicken.php
You can make a real difference right now by telling Comcast that they
need to back off. And if you can make a contribution of $100 or more,
Shirley wants to send you one of the new bright orange "IMPEACH BOTH"
caps to wear proudly. And if you can be a "tell it like it is" angel
and donate $1,000 or more, Shirley will also send you one of her
custom embroidered, satin baseball award jackets with the "I'm On The
Table" message.
Keith Olberman himself has said much more unflattering things about
members of the Bush administration than calling them chickens, and
that's why we love him, for his truth telling. And it is critical for
Shirley mobilize the audience who watches Olbermann on cable, and in
particular because only on cable can she focus on her constituents
exactly within the limits of her congressional district.
The courage of Shirley Golub is a breaking news story. With your help
in a matter of days we can break her out as true national leadership
figure, and then won't Nancy Pelosi be running scared.
Paid for by Shirley Golub for Congress
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
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Hey, maybe the blog bar can be designed to turn into an ark.
There is, indeed. There was a name for it when the Republicans were using that kind of lousy rhetoric to good effect: it was called the Southern strategy, although it was hardly limited to the South. Now the Clintons, in their desperation to find some way -- any way -- back to the White House, have leapt aboard that sorry train.
He can't win! Don't you understand? He's black! He's black!
The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and superdelegates for the longest time. It's a grotesque insult to African-Americans, who have given so much support to both Bill and Hillary over the years.
But it's an insult to white voters as well, including white working-class voters. It's true that there are some whites who will not vote for a black candidate under any circumstance. But the United States is in a much better place now than it was when people like Richard Nixon, George Wallace and many others could make political hay by appealing to the very worst in people, using the kind of poisonous rhetoric that Senator Clinton is using now
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According to yesterday's Newsday, Murdoch may have bowed out of the bid to buy the newspaper paving the way for Cablevision to buy the paper.
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Morning all. Velveeta checking in. We also had high winds and large parts of our Co. is powerless. We lost our refrigerator (?) !! It has power but no cold. Some damn computer chip I'm sure........... but I just went major grocery shopping on Sat. So........ this sucks!!
*sigh*
Anyway, Sears has been called and will be out promptly tomorrow between 8am and 5pm.
My problems remain small compared to those poor people in Burma! And in China with the Earthquake. (Both countries we may never know the correct death toll estimates).
I'll be off today, cleaning up and ........... shopping/getting ice, etc. Stay safe everyone!
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hmmm... maybe every time we're moved to respond re: something we've already hashed out again and again and again, we should post a nice (not too big) picture or fun link. A good start to the week, if you will.
anyone?
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