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Friday, August 05, 2005

Responding to John Carlson

Written for the Daily Kos Community and readers of the NPI Official Blog

Yesterday, I posted a diary entitled, "Local Politics Matter: Netroots Prepares for Initiative Fight" which subsequently made it onto the Daily Kos Recommended List for a few hours.

The diary concerned our efforts to create a stronger, more empowered progressive community through Pacific Northwest Portal, a website which we created to tie the region together and provide reality based news and viewpoints.

But it mainly concerned an initiative that is apparently headed for Washington State's ballot this fall: Initiative 912, which repeals a big part of the recently enacted transportation package to fund improvements.

I learned yesterday that that a significant part of my diary was read on air by one of the talk show hosts I mentioned in it - John Carlson.

Carlson was apparently unhappy with what I said, and was sarcastically reading part of my diary live, on air, to his conservative audience.

He was railing against a "high powered, well financed campaign by the establishment to thwart the will of the people."

Continue reading this response at Daily Kos, and if you are a member, please recommend to the rest of the community...

UPDATE: The diary has received a tremendous response. It made it to the Recommended List and promptly went to the top spot. It's still up there - feel free to head over and leave a comment.

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