The Democratic field for presidential candidates has been winnowed down to two: former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Tonightis the first Democratic debate that will be one on one with the two septuagenarian white men. The debate was moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Washington DC and there will be no audience …
Tag: Washington DC
Aug 13 2011
A nudge forward in DC
Washington, DC mayor Vince Gray met with LGBT activists on August 4 to discuss transgender employment issues in the District.
In the wake of too many recent transgender deaths and other violence, it sounds to these ears to be a good step forward. Or at least reasonable.
Jul 20 2011
The Beautiful and the Damned
Jul 19 2011
Gnome at the Capitol
This sympathetic little gnome was absolutely the only person I saw anywhere around the Capitol who looked the least bit worried, while Republicans were flushing the last remains of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal down the toilet of greed and bullshit economics.
Jul 17 2011
Winners and Losers
Almost all of us are losing the game that Congress and Obama are playing in the White House, but thousands of winners are swarming through offices and committee rooms all over Capitol Hill.
Apr 21 2011
Agreement to Fund Gulf Coast Restoration Projects
This is just breaking within the past hour or so.
Below is the press release from the ‘Restore the Gulf.gov’ site along with the initial draft agreement.
Still looking at the news articles just coming online.
Oct 03 2010
One Nation–Nice Notion
I went to the One Nation rally today–walked around as much as I could took photos and so on. The day was beautiful–this is the best time of year in the Washington area.
The focus of the rally was really on organized labor and the multi-cultural community and it very much reminded me Jesse Jackson’s old rainbow coalition. It was a pleasant outing with some a lot of speeches, Marian Wright Edelman speech struck me as important–the rest, with the exception of Harry Belafonte’s (rightly warning us about the spreading authoritarianism) speech weren’t much to write home about.
I liked the fact that labor unions were so well represented. It always makes me sad to see unions try to organize and represent people–it’s such an uphill battle for them and all the cards are stacked against them and they know it.
The rally wasn’t that large, it was, as the papers say, in the tens of thousands–for once they got the crowd size reasonably right.