In addition to forgetting Elizabeth Dole is a woman, the author seems to have also forgotten three other ground breaking women -- two who were candidates for their party's presidential nomination decades before Senator Clinton made her run -- and one who was her party's nominee this past November's election.

Senator Clinton is amazing, but she was NOT first.

1) Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, campaigned for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1964.

2) Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's 12th District, was the first woman and the first African-American to seek the nomination of the Democratic Party in 1972. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress.

3) Cynthia McKinney is a former Democratic Representative and was the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. She served in the House of Representatives from 1993–2003 and 2005–2007, first representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District and then Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She is the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.

I have been a member of Emily's List for many years now and am very proud of their candidates accomplishments, but we must not forget the trailblazers of 1964 and 1972 or that the Greens made history this past year with a completely female ticket.

Please correct this article's factual errors.

PS -- If you have a Yahoo and/or Digg account, at the bottom of GG's column are the links to give it a Buzz and/or Digg.

It only takes a second and will help get the Money Bomb and the PAC more attention.

The overall Accountability Now page at At Blue is about to break 50k.

I delivered up a chunk of the pizza and beer fund. May it go forth and create change that leads to new life for the constitution and beats back the evils of the past seven plus years.

Now it is time to browbeat the long suffering friends and family into tossing their cash into the pot.

I expect great things to come from the money raised today and can hardly wait to see you take action spending it.

Olbermann's intro to his segment on the Anthrax story read like talking points from GG's blog.

Key quote from the interview that followed from Olbermann:

"There is no one easier to convict than a dead man."

Olbermann on the therapist: "Her story is not air tight... and the time line is screwy."

Posner - the guest - brought up the therapist's record. Again, straight from GG's column today. (Domestic assault, DWI's, etc)

GG should be flattered as well as pissed at the cribbing.

O/T - but still an example of official hanky panky...

While checking myspace, I came across this bulletin from Sheehan's campaign:

"We just got an official report from the Department of Election here in San Francisco."

"They "randomly" sampled 531 of the 10,856 signatures that we turned in."

"They are "challenging" 231 and "allowing" 300. That means, after posting a 22% failure rate when we turned in our signatures in "lieu" of a filing fee (which Independents have to get anyway, there is no "filing fee" allowed, in lieu of anything), we have posted an INCREDIBLY hard to believe 43.5 percent failure rate and we need 2116 more valid signatures by Friday at 5pm."

"We can do it but we need help."

"Please forward this around so people can help us, or donate so we can pay professionals (signature gatherers/lawyers) to help get the voice of the people on the ballot."

Seems like the powers that be are up to their usual BS. Failing 43% of the signatures? And this is before Pelosi mounts her challenge to the petition.

Please do what you can. If the Dems/Reps maintain their lock on Congress, we will never have the truth about anything - from Anthrax to 9-11 to the AG firing issue and so on ad nausuem. Scaring speaker Pelosi in her home turf may be the message she and the rest of the spineless Dems need to get.

www.cindyforcongress.org

On topic - MSNBC Countdown is doing a segment on the Anthrax "investigation." The show is on now and I think the Anthrax story is number three in the line up.

From Think Progress yesterday:

Judge on Rove’s citizen arrest: ‘It’s about time.’

Last Friday, police in Des Moines, Iowa arrested four people who attempted to make a citizens’ arrest of former top White House aide Karl Rove, who was in town to speak at a GOP fundraiser. A retired minister and three members of the Des Moines Catholic Workers community were cited for trespassing. However, according to a press release, the judge presiding over the case praised their efforts:

[Mona] Shaw was the first called before Polk County Fifth Judicial District Associate Judge William Price.

After entering her plea, the judge asked Shaw, “Ma'am, what were you doing at the Wakonda Country Club?”

“I was attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove, your honor,” Shaw answered.

“Well,” the judge looked up and said, “it’s about time.”

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