kos actually front paged my diary on all this earlier today.  Plus he just put up the video in an open thread.

Thank you so much for the offer.

Folks there were thrilled to see this grassroots win, especially consider what happened in OH and VA yesterday.

Yeah I believe he showed the video there.  I hadn't even seen it yet ;)

P.S. One correction, Carl is not the Chair.  The Board has to select a new chair.  He told me this morning that he was probably going to throw his hat in the ring for it.

Awesome work by folks in Virginia!!!

Congrats people :)

Awesome.  Perfect marriage: ActBlue, local real world events and state bloggers.

Thanks Todd.  It was a blast to pull together.  You gotta love having an organization that gives you the leway to be creative and run with an idea.  This is the result.

Right, the more noise we can make now and get people fired up to defeat it the less likely they will pour resources into pushing it.  The blogosphere is a great noise machine and they know how effective we have been.  Imagine all of the blogosphere focused on one initiative in California on June 3rd when nobody else is voting and the nominees are already picked.

Dude.  Two California FP'ers on MyDD. heh

UFCW did a good job marrying community, labor and netroots activism with their So. Cal grocery workers contract battle.  They gathered signatures at local chains and online to support the workers in case of a strike.  They did a bunch of online outreach.  Check this tag to see all of my writing on the subject. At the end they got Robert Greenwald to start what would have been a video series about the worker's plight.  A good contract deal was struck before they rolled out new videos.

Looks like they tried but failed to fix the oversight.  It's a busted link right now.

Aaaw.  I am not surprised that I was the only nominee.  There are not that many labor bloggers let along labor bloggers who are women and/or minorities.  Tula over at the AFL-CIO counts though.  She has done a great job taking over the weekly labor slot at FDL.

Damn that is impressive.  He raised more online that Edwards did total for the quarter.

May I humbly offer up Working Californians, a blog I write for.  Working Californians is a non-profit that focuses on quality of life issues.  We are also tracking the presidential candidates when it comes to the issues Californians care most about (other than the war): education, health care, the environment and the economy.  Our primary funders are local labor affiliates.

And yes I am a chick.

Let me echo blogswarm on this.  We would really be thrilled if the other local blog communities started holding their own quarterly push.  Any reason to get together is a good thing, plus getting people to chip in more money to your favorite candidates is a plus.  We went all out with the planning for our first event, which took a lot more time, but we raised $4,000 (at $40 a pop or so).  This time it was much lower, but still was a big success.

We had staffers from one campaign Congressional campaign come by that is hoping to get our endorsement.  Perhaps next time they will be on the list.

Talk to your local Drinking Liberally chapter and see if they want to help co-host.  Hit up DfA lists for attendees.  Oh yeah and get some friends to pimp it on the front page of the big blogs.

Did you notice that they picked a transgendered woman as one of their dinner attendees?  That got media attention and she opted out of going to the dinner.  A shame really, but interesting that her resume was compelling enough for them to pick.

I understand what you are saying about it not being your writing, but let me take this opportunity to further explain labor's opposition to these particular compacts.  Labor does not oppose gambling expansion, but wants to ensure that workers right are protected when and if that does happen.  Because the tribes are sovereign they are not subjected to Californian labor law.  The only way that happens is if it is included in the compacts.

The biggest issue is the failure to include check cards like was done in the last round of expansion.  This is an excerpt from a letter that a number of labor leaders sent to the Democratic legislative leaders.

In contrast to most previous compacts submitted by the Governor in 2004, this compact--and presumably others to come--removes from the Tribal Labor Relations Ordinance the right for tribal casino workers (who are virtually all not tribal members) to freely choose whether they want unionization through card check, and to establish a level playing field for their pursuit of decent wages, benets and working conditions. Instead, the Governor has reverted to the 1999 procedures for unionization, even though Speaker Núñez and Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero conducted a detailed study of those procedures and found them severely deficient and ineffective.

I have a lot more over at Working Californians.