Comments on: How NY23 Revealed the Republicans’ ACORN Problem

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:22 +0000

Your work on this has been of the sort for which we can never appropriately thank or repay you.

By: anitamoncrief

anitamoncrief — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:57:28 +0000

Thank you for the info. I always love delving into new info. I feel that Republicans who take any money from ACORN, labor or Soros is beyond compromised.

By: AceInTX

AceInTX — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:42:40 +0000

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:23:40 +0000

Should be dead meat in their next primary. If I were running against them I would have that a front and center part of my campaign.

By: bk

bk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:05:28 +0000

If you do the buttons after the fact it becomes pretty easy. If you do the buttons to start and stop it’s more like you’re actually writing the HTML code as you go along and more confusing.

And I didn’t even recognize the name until people commented here, then it clicked. Welcome aboard!

By: AceInTX

AceInTX — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:58:46 +0000

I uncovered this a couple of months ago and put it out there hoping someone with time and resources to commit to researching the subject and to date, no one has picked up the gauntlet.

The Republican Main Street Partnership, chaired by Tom Davis, and touting membership such as Charlie Bass, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Senate Candidates Mark Kirk and others received a direct contribution from SEIU in the amount of $50,000 last January….another group called Main Street individual Fund who has gotten $50,000 from George Soros…in April of 2004. There is another group called Main Street fund that has gotten another $200,000 from SEIU, I’m not sure how these groups are tied together if at al;l…or if they are associated with the Republican Main Street Partnership but they ala have been the recipients of numerous large contributions from Amory Houghton Jr who is a liberal Republican from New York.

I have recently also come across an organization I believe to be new started by Tom Davis called “Main Street Advocacy” that doesn’t have anything up at open secrets yet…

anyway…as I say…I don’t have the time, knowhow, or the resources to track it all down…but there is evidence out there that the Acorn, SEIU, Soros triumvirate has a presence in the Republican Party and is weilding influence over certain so called “moderate” Republicans in office

By: anitamoncrief

anitamoncrief — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:53:47 +0000

I am used to the blogger world now and know that you were not being mean spirited. I really do want feedback and I appreciate the help. I am pretty computer savvy but HTML code gives me headaches. I will try another method for posting next time though. Everything I tried only seemed to make it worse.

By: bk

bk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:48:43 +0000

A lot of Republicans think if they’re nice to people who hate their guts – union thugs and various others – that they’ll be nice to them in return.

A lot of Democrats think if they’re nice to people who hate their guts – terrorists and various others – that they’ll be nice to them in return.

Both are wrong.

By: bk

bk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:45:42 +0000

I tried to explain it above. I was really trying to be helpful but didn’t exactly do a bang-up job of it to say the least.

By: bk

bk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:43:45 +0000

My experience is that the Visual one does weird things, while the HTML one is more logical. But maybe that’s because I’m comfortable with HTML. It preserves blank lines on that tab, but ignores multiple ones it seems.

The easiest way to use it on the HTML tab is to just type up your stuff and then you can add start and end tags, links, etc. in one shot. For example:
- Highlight a paragraph and hit the “bquote” button and it turns it into a blockquote,
- Copy a URL you want to link, highlight some text, hit the link button, and paste in the URL.
IOW you don’t have to hit one of the buttons to start, then type, then hit a button to close. Same story with bold, underscore, etc.

I don’t know if that helps any – bs or Neil can offer more insight there than I can.

I probably made it sound more serious about Erick’s name than I meant to be. I was just “yanking your chain” as we’d say here at work. I should have made it more obvious I wasn’t trying to throw rocks at you about it.