I deployed the Flip camcorder tonight during my interview with Democratic delegate Kath Delaney from Kensington. It’s one of a series of taped interviews we’re doing with East Bay delegates headed to the national political conventions in Denver and St. Paul in late August and early September.
Here, I’m asking Delaney how she feels, as an elected delegate for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, about the near-certain nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the party’s nominee in Denver. Delaney is a longtime Clinton supporter.
We’ll offer prior to the conventions a full package of video and online interviews with delegates for Sen. John McCain, as well as Clinton and Obama. (Don’t worry. The quality will be much better. You can’t see it in this video but our expert photographer Karl Mondon was taping the interview using a fancy camera. I’m using my new Flip video as an experiment to see how it would come out.)
It’s title sounds like a bit of a play on HalfwaytoConcord.com and the author warns on the home page that folks without a sense of humor should stay away.
Is Mixon suggesting that Halfway founder and blogger Mr. Bill Gram-Reefer of is humorless? Surely not.
But the web site’s discussion topics and entries from Mixon do indicate that she supported the June re-election of Discovery Bay resident and Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary Piepho while Gram-Reefer sided with challenger Guy Houston.
Discovery Bay is often a political maelstrom, so this already sounds good!
It’s my last chance for a break before the general election season overtakes my every waking hour. I’m headed out for the wild blue waters and campgrounds of Northern California and the chance to get away from the blog, the phone, the email and candidates.
But it’s not an entirely politics-free trip. While I’m bobbing around a cove in the shade in Lake Shasta, I’ll have the latest books on hand authored by the two presumed U.S. presidential nominees, John McCain and Barack Obama. Maybe I’ll finish them. Maybe not!
I’ll be back July 6. Have a safe and great Fourth of July!
(Photo taken last year of me and my husband, Joe, in our Crownline ski boat at Lake Berryessa.)
Not to be outdone by lefty Daily Kos bloggers who gathered last spring in Las Vegas, conservative cyber activists will convene in Sparks in October.
The theme of the Conservative Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by Citizen Outreach and Americans for Tax Reform, is “Conservatives and the New Media.”
The program, according to a press release, will focus on bloggers and the Internet in addition to the more traditional grassroots activist training.
“As dissatisfaction within the conservative ranks begins to reach record levels, the timing of this event in the West couldn’t be better,” wrote conference director and conservative blogger Eric Odom. “With Nevada being a key swing state, the location is ideal as well.”
Presidential candidates will be invited to address the conference, although none are listed as confirmed on the agenda. The event also features the first annual “State of the Conservative Union” address. Americans for Tax Reform chief Grover Norquist will speak. The conference will wrap up with the announcement of the results of a straw poll of the 2008 presidential race.
But Sparks?
One has to wonder how all those family values bloggers will stomach the gambling, scantily clad show girls and booze. If you think you can handle it, sign up at http://www.clc07.com/
Townhall.com, a conservative political opinion web site, announced today that it will promote activism through the combination of conservative talk radio and the blogosphere.
The first site of the conservative kind, or so they say, empowers talk radio listeners to create their own blogs, podcasts and disseminate opinion columns in their communities.
“The new Townhall.com offers an arsenal of weapons for conservatives to win the battle of ideas,” wrote Jonathan Garthwaite on the site. “The liberals will try to dismiss us but we know better. This is the start of something big and the stakes in 2006 and 2008 couldn’t be higher.”
Featured on the site are talk radio commentators Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Townhall.com Executive Editor Hugh Hewitt. Each has his own page with links to their shows and blogs.
With headlines such as “Bush motorcade stops for lemonade,” “How to buy a semi-automatic rifle” and “Because the New York Times Says So,” conservatives will feel right at home here.
It’s my last chance for a break before the general election season overtakes my every waking hour. I’m headed out for the wild blue waters and campgrounds of Northern California and the chance to get away from the blog, the phone, the email and candidates.