Blake Morlock of the Tucson Citizen writes a fun analysis of Arizona’s 8th Congressional District:
Voters in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District are about to feel special. Or overwhelmed.
A powerful contingent of national political interests will dial into voters’ hopes and fears to turn the race for their own benefit.
The race is a freak of 21st-century political […]

The Capitol Weekly carries a column from Patrick Dorinson, once a Clinton Administration bureaucrat and now the spokesperson for the California Republican Party. For me, the highlight was this paragraph:
In 2000 I voted for George W. Bush. Having been around Al Gore, it was an easy vote to cast. His plain spoken, “tell it like […]

Gary Martin of the San Antonio Express-News reports on the latest sign of the Cuellar campaign’s ineptitude:
A political attack on former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez by Henry Cuellar’s campaign backfired Friday when an angry Illinois business owner said her company was being dragged through the political mud with false accusations.
Cuellar’s campaign accused Rodriguez of working for […]

A week ago, Act Blue was reporting that $71,000 had been collected on-line on behalf of Ciro Rodriguez in his effort to take back his congressional seat from Bush sympathizer Henry Cuellar. Today, Act Blue is reporting $124,000.
That buys a lot of South Texas TV. And I think the on-line world has only begun to […]

February 10, 2006
New York Times
Editorial Observer
Of Buried Truths, Undocumented Laborers and a Grandfather I Never Knew
By CAROLYN CURIEL
In a land of great divides, none are so graphic as the Rio Grande. Its waters demarcate need and desire. Dreams are born or die at the river’s edge. Mexicans risk everything sacred to them, from proximity to […]

One of my clients is the Cyber Security Industry Association, a trade group that is trying to get policymakers to think smart about public protection when it comes to all the ways in which technology connects us. I was reading a recent article, “The Internet is Broken” in Technology Review, when I came across the […]

The Texas Environmental Watch has a chart comparing the votes of five Texas congressmen on issues like Arctic oil drilling and holding polluters accountable. Not surprisingly, the votes of Henry Cuellar match up much more closely with his Republican colleagues than they do with the Dems.
[Update:] The Swing State Project reports that the League of […]

Firedoglake blogs about the race to contribute to the campaign of Ciro Rodriguez:
Atrios and Kos both posted today about their page view-to-donation ratio for the Ciro Rodriguez fundraising drive. I’m quite proud to announce that we have the highest percentage of donors relative to readership of any of the three and we also have the […]

Gregory Rodriguez opines in the LA Times that if the Democratic Party was really interested in reaching Latino voters, it would have had Antonio Villaraigosa deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union in English:
Yet, unlike the adult Latino population at large, which is heavily foreign-born and Spanish-speaking, the Latino electorate is still […]

As noted in my earlier post, the blogosphere has rallied behind Ciro Rodriguez. Earlier today, Kos wrote:
It’s been about 23 hours since I started posting on this race, and in that time the netroots, Atrios, and Firedoglage [sic] ActBlue pages have collectively raised nearly $30K. The Cuellar people dismissed our efforts yesterday as a “one-day […]