Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Dying for up-to-the-second election commentary tonight?  Brian will be doing some of it!

9:00pm EST — He will be part of the SocialMedian podcast (http://election.socialmedian.com and on http://live.twit.tv) – it runs from 4:15 p.m. Pacific / 7:15 eastern until its all over, and he’ll be on at 9:00pm EST

9:15pm EST — He’ll be phoning in for a [...]

Since signs have been spouting up all over town and my email and voice mail boxes are filling with messages about the different measures (well, about 4,7 & 8 so far anyway — I had no idea there was one about farm animals on there), it is probably time to post of list of which [...]

I decided to become a permanent absentee ballot voter last time they offered, and I received my ballot last week for the upcoming primary election.  So, before it got lost in the mess that is my desk these days, I sat down, looked up all the ballot measures (over a span of about 4 [...]

Congrats to Bill Finch who appears to have won Tuesday’s mayoral primary in Bridgeport, CT.  We’ve known Bill since 1996 when Brian was the campaign manager for his congressional bid.

I am now AB 1234 Compliant (for the next 2 years). Rather than taking the online course, I opted to go in person in the hopes of meeting some of the other commissioners and city staff (all of whom are required to take it).

I got a note from Darren the other day explaining that he was off to Washington with the newly elected congressman from his district (who he had lost to in the primary but then helped to support). The news is being picked up on some blogs and local sites:
Just in From John Hall’s Press [...]

Things are looking pretty good nationally — there’s a nice chart on fmf charting 53 races in the House that were deemed close, must-watch races. How super amazing if we wake up confirming that Nancy Pelosi is our new speaker!
Still waiting to see how CT-04 went and how all our local races turn out [...]

Go vote! And let’s all hope for some good results this time around!
Darren’s doing color commentary tonight on WFUV 90.7 FM Public Radio from Fordham University, and can be heard live on the Internet at www.wfuv.org (10-12 eastern / 7-9 pacific)