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Welcome to a new advertiser, Christine Cegelis. I’ve known Christine since last year, and have been impressed with her candidacy. (A first-time candidate, she’s received endorsements from NOW, AFL-CIO, Howard Dean and many others.) She’s now rolling out an ad campaign on a number of blogs to raise her profile ahead of the convention. For…

Joe Trippi’s new book is out today: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. I have a copy on the way, will report back once I get a chance to read it. His forward is online at MSNBC.

John Kerry has picked John Edwards. Not the out-of-the-blue pick I was predicting last night. But I think this is a solid choice — certainly more attractive to the base than Gephardt. And ultimately, I think it’s this report from Will Saletan in Slate this spring that suggests why Edwards may be the most potent…

I’m keeping an eye on my inbox — Joe Trippi correctly pointed out that if the Kerry campaign hopes to e-mail 1m+ people with word of his announcement, they’ll have to start sending those e-mails in a few minutes if they hope to have them all distributed by early tomorrow morning. As for who he’ll…

Tons of rumors flying that Gephardt’s a lock, and plenty of responses, with Kos weighing in with a somewhat surprising defense of Gep. Personally? The thought of Gephardt as VP leaves me seriously underwhelmed. (I’ll be equally underwhelmed if Wonkette’s right and it’s Graham, but then at least we’d have quite the campaign blog to…

Early last year, Josh Marshall was on top of the allegations of phone jamming in tight races in 2002. At least one shoe has fallen: The AP is reporting that the former GOP Marketplace president Allen Raymond plead guilty today to deliberately jamming Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire in an effort to stifle voter…

I’m not sure what to make of the fact that the thing on my blog I’ve been asked about most in the last month is “what the $*!@ is the GOP doing on your blog?” For those that haven’t noticed, Illinois House Minority Leader Tom Cross’s office has been advertising on this site for a…

Forgot to post this last week: Clifford Chance, a firm I’ve written quite a bit about in the past, announced that it’s closing its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Wow. Interestingly, Tower Snow is staying put for the time being.

What in-house paralegal hasn’t dreamed of making the big bucks? What in-house staffer hasn’t secretly wished to rake in the dough that those overpaid lawyers make? Well, here’s one who did what any other frustrated paralegal would dismiss as, uh, ridiculous: steal a law firm’s identity and pocket $600k in the process. Former posts about…

Quite a post over at Campaign Desk that shows what a difference four years makes in how certain individuals are portrayed in the press.