Archive for August, 2008
And they use the typical name calling tactics of the left.
They also fail to realize that I’m simply a paid consultant for Sam and I do all of this #dontgo stuff on my own time.
But once again, no one contacted me before attacking, which is standard when the left goes postal like this.
Thanks to Prairie State 2.0, it has come to my attention that Progress Illinois took the Open Left talking points that I debunked earlier today and ran it as fact without doing some checking of their own.
Let’s be clear. This is a “movement” that originated at the highest level of powers in Washington. It’s a movement that, if successful, would benefit large oil companies and their rich executives far more than the average American consumer. It’s a movement with protests populated by paid staffers from industry-funded organizations. In short, there is nothing “grassroots” about it.
I find it fascinating that the left is stumbling over themselves thinking this is a beltway movement, when in fact it’s much, MUCH bigger than that.
Anyway, as one of the two #dontgo founders… I felt it my duty to respond to this false accusation.
Please also note that Progress Illinois is funded by SEIU Illinois State Council.
Below is my response. Continue Reading
Now that things are starting to slow down a bit, I feel I can finally address the laughable charge and confront it head on. For those of you who do not know the back story, you can read Mary Katherine Ham’s piece in the Washington Examiner to catch up on the #dontgo movement story.
While the Washington Examiner story explains the #dontgo Movement from the GOP side of the story, I would like to take you into the much larger, much more privately organized “outside the beltway” part of the movement.
Indeed, far left groups and blogs are frothing at the mouths to proclaim this grassroots movement an “astroturf” campaign with strings being pulled by Republicans and Big Oil Companies. Continue Reading
Much to my surprise, StumbleUpon has referred almost 20,000 visits to my Ultimate Libertarian Quotes List. And it’s not slowing down either. In fact, I’m still getting about 4,000 visits per 24 hour period.
I’ve had a few pages Stumbled before, but never like this. Not even close. It got me thinking… “are most Stumblers like me?”.
I Stumble a lot myself. I probably spend at least a half hour every day Stumbling, sometimes more. The three things I love the most are lists, images, and anything to do with Libertarianism. One of the reasons I got into Stumble is because there was so much pro-freedom content available and it seemed, unlike Digg, that the Stumble crowd was very non-partisan. Or at least, not into party politics.
While the assertion made in the title is purely an educated guess and contains no statistical data, 20,000 visits from StumbleUpon is a pretty big deal. And apart from a few comments and emails that seem to believe Democrats somehow represent Libertarian values, most of the comments and e-mail I got from that post were very much in support of true American liberty.
This tells me that a huge segment of Stumblers enjoy lists and are not in favor of the current two party system.
That makes me proud to call myself a Stumbler. 
