That's Lindsay, not Lisa. Dishonest on my part? I asked several SEIU officials, I pressed them repeatedly, and that's what they told me. SEIU has been giving to the RGA for years, about $100,000 a year, give or take. That pattern makes me agree with you that there's a very real, pragmatic rationale, but that it's not necessarily one specific project. Sometimes there's a generic price of admission. I tend to believe them when they say that the objective isn't to influence redistricting because i) they give about the same amount when redistricting isn't coming up; ii) $100,000 isn't nearly enough …
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Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein, a former InTheseTimes.com political reporter, is a freelance investigative journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, Slate.com, AlterNet.org, The New York Press, The Washington Independent, RH Reality Check and other news outlets.
Beyerstein writes a daily foreign affairs bulletin for the UN Foundation's UN Dispatch website and covers healthcare for the Media Consortium. She is the winner of a 2009 Project Censored Award and blogs at Majikthise. She can be reached at frege@mac.com.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay traveled to Boston to earn a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Tufts University. After graduating from Tufts, Lindsay moved to New York City where she briefly worked in pharmaceutical advertising and started her blog Majikthise.
Majikthise was initially conceived as an amalgam of analytic philosophy and liberal politics. However, the politics gradually eclipsed the philosophy as Lindsay spent more and more of her time chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration. Eventually, Majikthise began supplementing her opinion writing with original reporting.
In 2005, Lindsay traveled to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Later that year, her blog readers funded her live coverage of Tom DeLay’s first court appearance in Austin, Texas on money laundering charges. Other major stories she has covered include the New York Transit Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb senate race in Virginia in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006 Lindsay quit her day job in advertising to pursue journalism full-time. She joined the investigative team at Raw Story as a national correspondent specializing in labor, immigration, and crime issues, and worked as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.
Lindsay lectures regularly on blogging and journalism. In April 2007, she delivered the Richardson Memorial Lecture at the University of Gettysburg on the relationship between objectivity and journalism. She has also spoken to the National Organization for Women, the Center for American Progress, and other groups.
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Obviously, Obama wasn't running for reelection to the Senate in 2008. He was running for president and his senate term wasn't up in any case. That doesn't mean the money didn't go to the entity called "Obama for Senate." (Or whatever they call it.) Those accounts didn't close just because he declared his candidacy for president. The campaign committees of incumbents raise money 24/7, whether the politician is actively campaigning or not. If Obama had lost the presidential election, he would have gone back to the Senate and the money would have been banked for his reelection. John McCain did just …
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Much obliged, Thomas. Sentence fragment fixed.
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I agree 100%, CW.
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"We can all look forward to McConnel, McCain, DeMint, going nuts again." Word. The fun never stops around here, I'll tell ya.
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