I'm prepared to speculate that this is coming from - horrors! - those who
think themselves left of the Greens in power - not the right. This entire
thing has the unmistakable stench of those calling themselves green who hate
electoral politics and keep wanting the party to abandon any claims and
aspirations to power by conventional means.
Greens of this ilk hate the DFL more than they hate the parties on the right
and worse, disaffected DFLers who defect to the Green Party - as I once did.
A day's monitoring of the Green Party listserv will enlighten all on this.
Andy Driscoll
Saint Paul
--------
I (cannot) submit the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party
of men (and women) whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in
anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction
is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
--- Thomas Jefferson (updated)
> From: "David Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:25:27 -0600
> To: "Mpls list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Mpls] Raucuscaucus.com
>
> Nancy Travers writes:
>
>> On another topic, I wonder if anyone has seen this web site that a
>> friend of mine showed me a few days ago: http://www.raucouscaucus.com
>
> Thanks for the link, Nancy....a new Minneapolis political site is born.
>
> Since the site isn't signed with real names, its hard to give credit where
> credit is due, though portraying DFLers as pigs, voters as sheep, and
> drenching "insider" Greens in sarcasm makes my guess a wacky
> Carville-Matalin marriage of disaffected Greens and perhaps a few bawdy
> Republicans. Still, the site is occasionally clever, the Issues List is the
> butt of a few jokes, and I was proud to be featured in the first Gossip
> column (thankfully not entitled "Fact.")
>
> Oh - and the cartoonist is almost as good as Ken Avidor.
>
> Curious about the anonymous wits behind the site, I checked the domain
> registry for raucuscaucus.com... which turns out to be registered to Raucous
> Caucus, Inc., 2336 Rayburn Office Bldg, Washington, D.C.
>
> "Why would federal Republicans waste any time ridiculing Minneapolis DFLers
> and Greens?" I wondered.
>
> A quick Google search turned up the occupant of 2336... DFL Congressman
> Martin Sabo. Ha ha.
>
> Obviously, the site's creators studied at the Donald Segretti School of
> Comedy.
>
> David Brauer
> King Field
>
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