Morning Roundup
June 14, 2007 at 10:54 am by Wayne GarciaLet’s all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born:
- “Now… please… please… can you turn your attention to what’s wrong in the south side and forget about me?”
- Christine Jennings update.
- Democrats pull even with Rudy; Bush approval drops to 28 points.
- No more dancing pizzas??
- Tampa to follow St. Pete in the wi-fi biz?
- Tampa drivers say phooey to carpooling, transit and go it alone.
- “Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to f—k.”
- The Wilburys get a re-release.
- Good eats: The Tandoori Trailer.
- Judy Hill on the missing Times quote in the Elijah Dukes online story.
- As R’s and D’s fight over property taxes, the Gov lays low.
- The Pop N Sons regulars lay waste to our own Wade T.
- Kottkamp’s Wiki-gate.
- Just how Blue is Broward County?
- Kucinich set for St. Pete Pride promenade parade.
- Dishing on the woman at the center of the Dallas press club scandal. Or, When Journalists Turn on Their Own.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Dennis Kucinich will be just as ignored by the crowd at the Pride Promenade as he is by just about everyone else. Most of my gay democratic friends are supporting Sen. Clinton with a few going for Sen. Obama. Maybe it’s the crowd I hang with but Kucinich is a non-starter with them,
June 14th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Kucinich is our Presidential kamikaze, much like Ross Perot was in 1992 or Ralph Nader (boo, hiss) should have been in 2000. His function is to raise issues that the more centrist politicians don’t want to spend their capital on, and to get them into the public mind in such a way that those more centrist folks feel safe addressing.
He’s a pioneer, but pioneers never win the really big prize; they just wind up with arrows in their back.
June 15th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Chris — good point, but more and more, don’t you think that the MSM lack of interest in anybody who is not at the front of the horse race (clinton, edwards, obama or giuliani, thompson, romney) mitigates the ability for candidates outside the center in either direction to insert those issues into the campaign? I just don’t see how Kucinich can attract attention beyond those folks who already know who he is and what he stands for.