Friday afternoon stuff

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Just some stuff:

NCDC breakfast. Tomorrow morning, 8:30am, Friendly’s, 5764 East Virginia Beach Boulevard. Be there!

Nancy Pelosi names Reyes to lead Intelligence Committee. Whew! I’m glad that’s over. She wouldn’t pick Harmon because they don’t get along and she couldn’t pick Hastings because of his baggage. Guess we’ll learn a lot about Reyes soon.

World AIDS Day. Today is World AIDS Day. Tokatakiya has put together a nice list of resources.

New citizenship questions. Too bad they included the answers. How many could you answer without them?

First official candidate for president announces. Tom Vilsack, the Democratic Iowa governor, announced yesterday. Here’s a quick bio.

Another one bites the dust. Republican Bill Frist is out of the running for his party’s nomination for president in 2008.

CQ Politics trivia question for the day: Who will represent a seat he sought unsuccessfully a dozen years ago?

  1. Bob Casey, D-Pa.
  2. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
  3. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
  4. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt.

Get the answer here.

Good advice from Bwana. Even though he has resisted the urge to copy me and all the other VPB’s who are using the Regulus theme, Bwana has not resisted the urge to give some good advice to the Virginia GOP.

Gay marriage now legal in South Africa. The first wedding is expected to be held Saturday.

Evan Bayh’s All-American PAC survey. Head on over and let him know what you think.

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3 thoughts on “Friday afternoon stuff”

  1. Vilsack’s presidential campaign committee (not an “exploratory” committee made its first FEC filing about a month ago. And he wasn’t technically the first. Mike Gravel, 75 year old former senator from Alaska who was an important antiwar figure in the Vietnam era, announced his candidacy in April.

  2. Well, Vilsack didn’t announce until this week.

    Hadn’t heard of Mike Gravel. And, apparently, neither has George Stephanopolus, who called Vilsack the first to announce on his show this morning.

  3. Five years ago I interviewed Tom Vilsack on a Walk Across Iowa. It is the second interview on Episode 59 of “Perils For Pedestrians”, now available on Google Video at:
    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22Perils+For+Pedestrians%22

    Contents of Episode 59 (2001):
    –A new safety device for transit buses.
    –Governor Vilsack walks across Iowa.
    –The Fifth Annual Native American Lifesavers Conference in Bismarck, ND.
    –Pedestrians form 25 percent of traffic fatalities in Indian Country.
    –Bike-Walk Virginia meets in Charlottesville, VA.
    –An old pedestrian mall is seeing new life in Charlottesville, VA.
    –The League of American Bicyclists hosts a legislative summit in Washington, DC.
    –The Thunderhead Alliance promotes local bicycle advocacy.

    Thank you.

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