dailykos.com - 10/23/2008
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Freaked out at the possibility of Darcy Burner winning her seat, a whole host of unsavory characters have suddenly piled on: Third party groups are dumping hundreds of thousands into the district. Reichert's media buyer has given the candidate an illegal $500,000 loan to saturate the ...
openleft.com - 10/23/2008
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openleft.com —
Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published
a story Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree...
in economics aren't true . The story is literally made up out of whole cloth. Burner has a degree in computer science and economics from ...
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How the Seattle Times Is Trying to Take Out Darcy Burner
openleft.com - 10/27/2008
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openleft.com —
One part of the story in Washington's eighth
district I haven't touched on yet was Darcy's role...
in a major dispute over local media consolidation between the two papers here - the Seattle Times and the Seattle PI. In 2007, she co-chaired ...
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Local Media, Darcy Burner and the War over the Obama ...
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Must. Obey. Markos.
Eschaton —
Markos says give to Darcy. We must obey orders.
Kick Butt
Suburban Guerrilla —
Give to Darcy Burner. This is one we can and should win - imagine, a real progressive in Congress! We can always use another one.
Fight back for Darcy… and for ourselves
HorsesAss.Org —
... pile of shit, neatly tied up in a ribbon.
So now, the only way for Darcy to counter these baseless lies is with more advertising of her own, ads for which she’ll need to raise a lot money if she hopes to keep up with the barrage of attack ads Reichert is airing, courtesy of an unprecedented and illegal loan from his media buyer. That of course, is where you come in.
Over on Daily Kos, Markos is just as outraged as I am, and he’s asking his readers to do something about it:
Look, here’s the deal: The local media ...
Don’t let Frank Blethen play kingmaker in WA-08
HorsesAss.Org —
Markos pegged it:
Look, here’s the deal: The local media and the local political establishment see themselves as kingmakers. They get to decide who sinks or swims in their areas of influence. Then along comes Darcy Burner, thinking she can crash the gates and get elected for office in the district, and the local elites are pissed. So they conspire with Reichert, a supposed local hero, to dish all sorts of crap about Darcy and bury Reichert’s dirt. ...
Girl Power in WA (with Pics!): Janet & Kathleen, Maria & Patty, for Christine & Darcy
Washblog - Diaries —
(Cross-posted on DailyKos, here)
Awesome demonstration of Girl Power yesterday (Sunday 10/26) in Bellevue, WA, battleground of a tight WA-08 pick opportunity by Darcy Burner, and a tight gubernatorial race for Christine Gregoire.
In front of a BCC auditorium filled with activists ready to go canvass the area, Darcy and Chris received an all-ladies support from Maria Cantwell & Patty Murray, our 2 WA Senators, and Janet Napolitano & Kathleen Sebelius, the well known Governors of Arizona and Kansas.
Check-out my pics to see if you recognize them ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/23/2008 — My thoughts on this absurd Seattle Times hit on Darcy Burner:
Harvard, as you know, is old and fancy. Consequently, it has a lot of old and fancy terminology and procedures that differ somewhat from the American norm. They don’t, for example, ...
Darcy still here, Times just makes stuff up
horsesass.org 11/5/2008 — So I’m here at the Bellevue Westin, waiting for King County to actually report some results, and I read on the Seattle Times front page that “ Burner goes home, volunteers wait .” Which was a bit of a surprise to me, as she’s ...
Exit-pollsters seek disaster-free Election Day —
Reuters: Politics 10/23/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Americans head to the polls to pick a president on November 4, Michael McDonald will have armed guards stationed outside his workplace. His supervisor will confiscate his cell phone and Blackberry, and he'll get an escort ...
Exit-pollsters seek disaster-free Election Day —
Reuters: Politics 10/23/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Americans head to the polls to pick a president on November 4, Michael McDonald will have armed guards stationed outside his workplace. His supervisor will confiscate his cell phone and Blackberry, and he'll get an escort ...
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