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Blue America Welcomes Annette Taddeo
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This is a very good kind of forum for south Florida progressive Annette Taddeo.She shines.She has a firm grasp of the issues, a charisma you can't buy, a great sense of style, a genuineness and warmth that comes through when she talks.In terms of the impact she made on the audience, she was right up there with Darcy Burner and Linda Sánchez (who, with lines like "We need to put Karl Rove behind bars" and "We need to get Mean Jean Schmidt out of Congress," was never going to be beat by anyone).
I had an opportunity to spend plenty of time with Annette that day and the next day she had dinner with Jane and a couple days later spent some quality time with Digby at Netroots Nation.
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Unfortunately, though DWS is co-chair of the DCCC's Blue America program and has been successful in keeping Annette from being endorsed by it.Establishment Democratic donors, the ones who write the big checks, tend to write checks for candidates on that list.Aside from the Rahmish inevitability narrative, DWS is also starving the campaign of money.That said, Annette is the first Democrat to ever give Ros-Lehtinen a real contest-- and the first one to raise over $70,000.
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Today we have an opportunity to talk with Annette and get an idea of what kind of congressmember she will be.Please join us in the comments section and ask her any questions you think would be relevant for the representative from South Beach, Little Havana and Key West.I asked her to define herself and give us an idea of the most basic differences between the kind of congressmember the incumbent is and kind of member she will be.
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The district is changing-- and changing in ways that favor Annette.
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When Annette is elected she will be the first member of Congress with South American heritage.
The funniest thing about this race is that Ros-Lehtinen, who is wisely avoiding televised debates with Annette, is now taking all of her cues from Annette and has, in the last 2 months utterly abandoned her reflexive rubber stamp posture and is voting like a Democrat.
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"The only thing she has left to do," Annette laughed, "is switch parties.
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Annette, on the other hand vociferously opposes FISA, unequivocally supports women's right to choice, full and complete equality under the law for all Americans, a speedy, safe end to the war in Iraq (she's a signer of the Responsible Plan to End the War).And, unlike Ros-Lehtinen, she's never had Jeb Bush as a campaign manager.Please join me at the Blue America ActBlue page and help send this extraordinary woman to Congress.
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79 Responses to "Blue America Welcomes Annette Taddeo"
Howie Klein August 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Hi, Annette.
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Hello, Ms Taddeo, and thanks for chatting today at FireDogLake.
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Welcome, Ms. Taddeo.I wish you the best in your race.
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Annette, I know your district- which includes South Beach and Key West, has a really large gay population.
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Teddy, I ask them about Annette constantly and I'm always given a bunch of excuses, They adamantly deny that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is keeping her from being endorsed but I don't believe them.
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The keep telling me that they think Annette will be endorsed "soon."Soon isn't good enough when institutional donors are writing their checks now.Wasserman-Schultz is probably trying to run out the clock.She's a really venal character, every bit as bad as Emanuel, if not as powerful yet.
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Annette is being overly polite.
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Okay, let's try a donation match today to keep things rolling: I will match five of your ten-dollar contributions today here to Annette Taddeo's campaign to unseat this awful Florida GOP Congresswoman.
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Apologies, this comment was directed to Annette.I'm in too much of a hurry this morning.
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Welcome to FDL, Ms. Taddeo.
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Annette, most casual observers would think that Ros-Lehtinen's only strong raison d'etre for even being in politics is to bring about regime change in Cuba.It doesn't look like she's had any success at all.
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Thanks, Annette.
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Thanks for coming Annette, you are a terrific candidate and we are delighted to hear more about your views.
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Annette, thank you for spending the afternoon with us today.
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Annette, your words are great for the morale!
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Thanks for stopping by, Annette.Good luck.
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