Gov. Peter Shumlin will travel to the nation’s capital Thursday to address members of the Democracy Alliance, a fundraising alliance Mother Jones has called “the liberal answer to the Koch donor network.”
Shumlin, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, will deliver remarks at a Democracy Alliance conference, according to DGA spokesman Danny Kanner. He will then introduce two of the DGA’s top recruits for the 2014 election: former Trek Bicycle Corporation executive Mary Burke, who is running for governor of Wisconsin, and Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who is running for governor of the Lone Star State.
Davis drew national attention in June when she spent 11 hours filibustering legislation that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and imposed new restrictions on doctors who perform abortions. She’s expected to face off against Texas attorney general Greg Abbott to succeed Gov. Rick Perry, who’s stepping down after three terms.
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“Members pay $30,000 in annual dues and pledge to contribute $200,000 a year to groups the Democracy Alliance has endorsed, “
More evidence that we are governed by an agenda setting class of the super wealthy.
You took down the bot post? I can understand, yet it was sort of an interesting/alarming example of internet propaganda: a fake web identity created for searching the internet for articles on a particular person and posting derogatory content.
It’s certainly the prerogative of Seven Days to run its website as it pleases, but removing totally legitimate comments with well-sourced, well-researched facts is a strange form of censorship for a website such as this, indeed. Maybe I mistook this site for a news site. I guess it’s something else.
I think they don’t like bots. Nobody does. So you’re not a bot, are you paid to do this systematic posting or just a dedicated political partisan? If you don’t mind me asking.
“The Real Wendy Davis is a project of the Republican Party of Texas. Paid for by the Republican Party of Texas and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” This disclaimer is posted on our website and other advertising (you can click through our Disqus profile to see it posted there as well).
The comment(s) that were removed from this comment thread were completely on topic, had relevant (well-researched, well-sourced) information from the Texas Ethics Committee (which is the primary source in Texas for campaign finance information), didn’t have offensive or profane material, and were not even remotely spammy. They advanced the discussion of the topic of Wendy Davis’ out-of-state fundraising and provided readers with additional information and resources about the topic discussed above.
Again, it’s the right of a website to run itself how it wishes, but it does speak volumes that our comment and reply to another person’s comment were removed (plus, their perfectly legitimate question for us, which we were happy to answer). It all just felt like a friendly discussion of facts from where we sit.
It’s certainly your right to call this whatever you like, but we view commenting on relevant articles (usually a very small number on any given day) in a transparent way, and usually with links to meticulously-sourced material, as advancing the truth in a media environment, frankly, without a lot of fact-based journalism remaining.
Yes, and this is a Vermont website with a post about Gov. Peter Shumlin, and your website is not at all related to this post beyond the fact that both include Wendy Davis as a character. Your facts may be accurate but they are not relevant to this post. That’s spam.
Wendy Davis is referred to as a “pro-choice crusader” in the headline of the article, she is mentioned in the second paragraph, and the third paragraph is entirely about her. Facts about her and her campaign fundraising are entirely relevant.
Admire your persistence, but sorry, a one-sentence comment, followed by a link to your website that’s tangentially related (at best) to the topic at hand? Always going to be spam.
Tyler, I see no reason why you deleted my response to “The Real Wendy’s” initial propaganda post
I didn’t specifically, I deleted the initial post which killed the threaded replies. In an attempt to keep this comment thread about the post and not the spam. LOOK HOW WELL THAT WENT!
Any Democrat in Texas has to be better than Rick Perry, or George Bush, The Second, for that matter.
Well, as you can see, some of us were able to recognize this person’s post as right-wing political propaganda and respond to it. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the business of censoring posts that aren’t bot-posts. I certainly don’t agree with this person’s point of view, but I also don’t agree with your subjective judgment that her post was unrelated to the topic. Wendy Davis IS the topic of this thread. Re-read the title!
After all, most people now realize that just about anything that comes out of Peter Shumlin’s mouth is “spam.”
She wants to Kill Them Babies!!! Yea! What a Hero.
A rare contrast of Texas and Vermont politics. Off topic but noteworthy nonetheless.