Crossposted from Left Toon Lane& My Left Wing


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Rep. Brad Miller will be live-blogging at BlueNC.com on Thursday morning December 28th from 9am-11am (Eastern). Questions and comments are welcome

In anticipation of this event a question thread has been running at BlueNC. Some good questions have already been posted and Rep. Miller has been reading.

Some of you will have seen my previous MyDD posts and those of others about Brad Miller and the absurdly venomous campaign by his unsuccessful opponent Vernon Robinson.

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As we approach the witching hour it's time for a review of the sordid brew that is Vernon Robinson's devious, scary and, hopefully, quixotic campaign including what appears to be another copyright violation.  Interesting take on Vernon Robinson at this post by Michael Fauntroy at the Huffington Post.  Noting how effective Robinson is at raising money with hate he raises the scary thought of how much money Robinson could raise if Republicans actually thought he had a chance at winning. I love MsWings comment that if Miller were everything Robinson says he is

I'd still vote for him before I'd waste a vote on a hate filled loudmouth like Robinson.

Meanwhile Robinson's dirty campaigning tricks have circled the globe via international press in the last few days showing up in London and Australia in stories typical of this Canadian report.  I hope these stories have shown up in Beijing but who knows how the government censors control what Vernon's Chinese donors see.  [more below...]

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Today I received an email from Brad asking for money.  At this time of the year most of us are pretty tapped out, but we still want our Dems to win.  This is part of his plea:  

We've almost raised enough to pay for what we've planned to spend on television, mail, flyers, signs, campaign staff, and all the rest. But not quite.  To be precise, we need an extra $37,895 by Tuesday, October 31.

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The prize for the furthest traveled to this reunion goes to an octogenarian couple in Beijing, China who retired there from Illinois in 1988 and haven't looked back since.  As the husband writes in his website:

China living is easy, a slower-paced living.  It's a lot like turning the clock back a number of years.

 No kidding!  Turning the clock back is what Vernon Robinson wants to do with a number of issues here in NC, on the other side of the globe from Beijing, literally and figuratively.  

They have sent money from China to Robinson before, giving them reunion status in Robinson's fear mongering milking parlor in his run against Democrat Brad Miller.  Why would they want to give money to a Congressional race in  NC?  Well, clue number 1. is this quote:

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