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Here are some updates from around the 50-State Blog Network, brought to
you this week by Wasatch
Watcher, the progressive community blog in Utah. Also boadicea stepped up once
again and was a big help…thanks!
Texas 
In a story TJX (parent corp
of TJ Max, Marshall’s, et al) wishes would just go away, the security
breach reported a few months ago is even more ginormous than
first reported.
California 
Fire, water and global warming are all
related.
Ohio 
OH-05: Gimme A G@d D@mn Break
Colorado 
Introducing the SquareState Small Donor Committee – getting ActBlue to operate for state and local candidates in Colorado
Colorado Semi-official DCCC event only invites “establishment” Democrats
Wisconsin 
In a thirsty world, Uppity Wis says
“Water
is the Next Oil”.
West Virginia 
With his usual gift for distilling
complex ideas to understandale ideas, WV Blue’s Carnacki gives us the “FISA Scandal in
Simpler Terms”.
Washington 
Washblog sounds the alarm, as the FCC
comes to Seattle for a critical media consolidation hearing and asks “Does the FCC
Hope We Won’t Show Up?”
Virginia 
Think the Bushies actually do learn
from their mistakes? Perhaps not, as Raising Kaine catches the White
House silencing another scientist on climate change.
Vermont 
Inftrastructure issues are an
everywhere story. In VT, Green Mountain Daily notes the Grand
Isle Drawbridge Deemed Unsafe.
Utah 
IWell, if it looks like a
vote buying scheme, and it smells like a vote buying scheme, it may be
that Free Capitalist in Utah is buying
votes for Referendum 1. Take a whiff, and see what it smells like
to you.
Utah Well, if it looks like a vote
buying scheme, and it smells like a vote buying scheme, it may be that
Free Capitalist in Utah is buying
votes for Referendum 1. Take a whiff, and see what it smells like
to you.
Texas 
Beleagured Texas House Speaker Tom
Craddick is grasping at straws to defend his weakening hold on power.
Last
stop for the floating pity party and crap game? The Lions Club in
his hometown, Midland Texas.
Tennessee 
Rudy Guliani’s Rudy Guliani’s Rudy Guliani’s
Tennessee Rudy Guliani’s American Idol: Fearmonger Racism Edition Tour catches KnoxViews eye.
South Dakota 
Badlands notes that Bob Kerrey’s
decision not to run for Nebraska’s Senate seat isn’t all bad news for
Dems, and the coverage includes some interesting
omissions as well.
Rhode Island 
Seems Blusterin’ Don Carcieri never
met a perk he could turn down-but that doesn’t mean he won’t expect everyone
else in Rhode Island to do so.
Pennsylvania 
A low interest mayoral contest in
Philly may lead to lower expectations for PA Dems in statewide races, notes Keystone Politics.
Oklahoma 
Senator Inhofe is still lowering the
bar in Oklahoma’s name. Latest move? Coming out firmly against open
access to research. Keep ’em stupid, that’s Sunny Jim’s motto.
Ohio 
In the Buckeye State, Bob Latta is
showing how you fight back when Club For Growth comes in to spread
manure in your neighborhood. You shove it back in their face with the biggest shovel you’ve got.
New York 
The truism that all politics
is local turns a little sour when it’s Karl
Rove’s spectre haunting local politics.
Alabama 
This is why
Jena bothered so many of us
Connecticut 
A closer look at education
in Connecticut.
New York 
As the cacophony rises regarding his
immigrants ID initiative, Daily Gotham weighs in with a suggestion on
The Speech Eliot Spitzer Should Give
Florida 
Rep. Tom
Feeney is looking very vulnerable
Idaho 
Idaho Democratic Senate candidate Larocco Calls for Timetable of Iraq Strategic Withdrawal
New Mexico 
As Domenici Dominos continue in New
Mexico, NMFBIHOP keeps track of Who’s in the
House Races
Illinois 
Republican Peter Roskam votes against SCHIP…again.
New Jersey 
Sometimes, the headlines
really do write themselves, as in Blue Jersey’s 400
Organizations for Marriage Equality
Georgia 
Jim
Marshall still one lonely man
Indiana 
Honda’s
hiring practices should be opposed.
New Hampshire 
The Bush Justice Dept tries to slow
the investigation to the crawl, nonetheless Latest
Phone Jamming Funny Biz Shows Up in Court Documents
Louisiana 
Louisiana
GOPers VOTE against SCHIP…AGAIN!
Kentucky 
Great videos of a McConnell protest and organizing another one in L’ville this Friday.
Maine 
Primary
Challenge to Tom Allen
Nevada 
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Nevada The controversy over Barack Obama’s
connection to anti-gay activists hits very
close to home for some at Silver State.
Maryland 
Hoyer:
Telecom Immunity “Unacceptable”
Massachusetts 
A real conversation about controlling health care costs
Nebraska 
There’s more going on in Nebraska
than a Senate race. For example, you can sign the petition to “Fight Back
the Broadband Betrayal”.
Michigan 
Suit filed over party having access
to voter
records for the presidential primary
Minnesota 
Iraq and
the Senate Race in Minnesota
Montana 
Left in the West weighs in on the
insanity of the medical marijuana debate in Montana in “Put this
in Your Pipe”.
Mississippi 
Republicans getting stupid –
FEMA coming for our guns
Missouri 
Why is college costing
so much in Missouri?
North Carolina 
Greg uncovers blatant “misrepresentation
by the John Locke Foundation”, a Bush Republican think tank in North
Carolina, of the state Treasurer’s recommendations for county fiscal
responsibility. The report is being used by The Realtors Association to
claim that counties are flush with cash and do not need the “Transfer
Tax”.
Missouri Fired Up Missouri catches a not much
reported story from Milwaukee that should get a lot more circulation.
To wit: Education Vouchers
Don’t Work.
Louise Slaughter
Missouri 
Why are Missouri
Teachers Denied Social Security Benefits?
New York SCHIP is
set to make a return to the floor of Congress today
New York Rep. Louise Slaughter fired
the first
shot in the second battle over SCHIP
Oregon 
Howard Dean
visited the Rose City to talk up his new good neighbor”
repeat-canvass plan, and took some time to talk
one-on-one with LO about that and a few other subjects as well. In
OR-SEN news, we take a look
at the evolving views of WaPo Senate ranker Chris Cillizza, showing
that–by gum–we got ourselves a primary race!