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My July Political And Other Donations

My July Political And Other Donations

It’s the day before the dealine, when I like to give my donations.  I’ll keep this short because there’s other campaign stuff still to do.

I’m going to give $20 to Joe Biden and $20 to the Warren Democrats.  I’ll give $20 to the Democratic candidate for the 2nd District here in Tennessee.  I’ll give $20 to the Knox County Democratic Party and $20 to the Tennessee Democratic Party.

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Veepstakes - My Top 5 For Biden's VP Pick

Veepstakes – My Top 5 For Biden’s VP Pick

I haven’t written over here much, except for my political donations.  I see I did a top 5 back in March for the VP when Warren dropped out.  I’ve got a couple of spare minutes between my own campaign tasks, so why not update this list?

In March, I had Michelle Obama first, followed by Harris, Abrams, Klobuchar, and Warren.  The names have changed since then, as has the order.

Susan Rice – I’m…

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My June Political And Other Donations

My June Political And Other Donations

Last month I did a little monologue about money in politics before the donation section, so maybe I’ll do that again here.

As you know, one of the main issues for me in my run for County Commission is the influence of money in politics even in a local race like mine.  My other big issue is how the County Mayor seems to favor development for the sake of developers.  Those two issues collide in the…

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The Band Story - Pandemic Edition

The Band Story – Pandemic Edition

I recently drove up to Virginia to have practice with the guys in anticipation of our upcoming wedding gig.  I thought I would give an update, since some things have obviously changed.

First, there’s this whole COVID-19 pandemic.  We haven’t gotten together for practice since February.  I wrote about that last one here.  Stay at home orders prevented that for the most part and the schedule with…

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My May Political And Other Donations

My May Political And Other Donations

Before I start, I wanted to comment here on the recent newsthat Elizabeth Warren is doing a high dollar fundraiser for Joe Biden.  In my own campaign, I’ve sworn off big money and PAC money.  And I’m generally against the big money model of political fundraising in general.  Even though it’s legal, I think it presents an access issue.  The people who donate big bucks get catered to.  Their issues…

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My April Political And Other Donations

My April Political And Other Donations

I haven’t been writing here much.  I’ve been heavily working on social media for the campaign and any writing I’m doing is on Facebook or the other site – toddfrommeyer.com.  Still, there are some things that I will continue to write here, including this monthly post.

With everything going on with the quarantine, political fundraising is down.  And nonprofit organizations are hurting as well.  I…

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My March Political Donations

What with Covid and the online stuff I’ve been doing for my own campaign, there hasn’t been much time to write here.  College basketball went away.  The Democratic nomination is pretty much sewn up by Biden, although someone needs to tell Bernie.  Still, the down ballot races are moving, albeit more slowly.  Today’s the quarterly deadline, so there’s some urgency on the part of campaigns.  The…

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My College Basketball Bracket - March 8

My College Basketball Bracket – March 8

This could change a lot with the conference tourneys coming up.  Seems like the top 5 are set at this point.  I fully expect the NCAA to create the bracket of death with Kentucky, Kansas, and Duke, unless there’s an early exit in the conference tourneys for one of those teams.

Midwest (Indianapolis)

Kansas

Kentucky

Duke

BYU

Illinois

West Virginia

East (New York)

Dayton

Florida State

Villanova

Vir…

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Top 5 Candidates For The Democratic Vice-Presidential Pick - Warren Drops Out Edition

Top 5 Candidates For The Democratic Vice-Presidential Pick – Warren Drops Out Edition

It doesn’t seem like there’s any reason for me to do a Top 10 or anything like that for the Democratic nomination for President now.  There are 3 candidates left and one shouldn’t have been in in the first place.  For what it’s worth, my list would be: 1-Biden; 2-Sanders; 3-Gabbard.  But she’s only on the list because she hasn’t dropped out.

And I admit that I’m a bit bummed about the fact that…

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Politics At The Dinner Table

Politics At The Dinner Table

MadZee is doing his first voting this year.  He’s attending the University here in Knoxville, but his registration is back in Virginia, where he graduated from high school.  So, he’s doing absentee voting.  Last Fall he did a vote for the local Virginia elections in November.  Now, he’s doing the Super Tuesday primary vote for Virginia.  He doesn’t keep up with politics like the rest of us around…

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My College Basketball Bracket - March 1

My College Basketball Bracket – March 1

I’m going to forego entirely my Top 25 format and, instead, put the teams in seeds/regions.  We’ll see how it goes.

Midwest (Indianapolis)

Kansas

Seton Hall

Creighton

Louisville

Iowa

Colorado

East (New York)

San Diego State

Dayton

Florida State

Arizona

Penn State

Michigan State

South (Houston)

Baylor

Kentucky

Villanova

West Virginia

BYU

Michigan

West (Los Angeles)

Gonzaga

Maryland

Duke

Oregon

Ohi…

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My January and February Political Donations

My January and February Political Donations

I was looking back and it looks like I didn’t do a post for my January donations, so I’ll combine last month and this month together.  I got February’s in just under the wire – about 90 minutes before it turned to March.  I think I also waited almost until the end with January.

The rules, as usual, are that I give a total of $20 a month, usually at $5 a candidate or cause.  Also, I don’t count…

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Watching The Debate So You Don't Have To - South Carolina Edition

Watching The Debate So You Don’t Have To – South Carolina Edition

So, I watched the debate, but not live.  There was a campaign related meeting I had to go to and a basketball game to watch first.  I took notes as I normally do, but it was too late to write something up last night while it was fresh in my mind.  I have a grandma doctor appointment to go to this morning and another campaign thing to handle after lunch with the MadDoc.  Therefore, I’m just going…

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My College Basketball Top 25 - Bracket Edition

My College Basketball Top 25 – Bracket Edition

I’ve decided it’s time to shake things up.  Instead of doing the rankings as usual, I’m going to transition to something more like Bracket seeding.  It was a wild weekend in college basketball and it’s starting to get serious with the bracketology.  I thought I would take a look at a couple of the high profile brackets and then come up with my own seeding, about the first 6 seeds.  I’m looking at…

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The Band Story Continues - February Edition

The Band Story Continues – February Edition

As you may recall, my old band from my days in Northern Virginia are getting back together for one last gig.  A wedding in June.  I gave some more details here.  Our last practice with the whole group was in November.  Tomorrow, we’re going to have another go.  I’m flying up in the morning.  We’re practicing tomorrow night and then I’m flying back on Saturday.  I scheduled this originally on a…

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Watching The Debate So You Don't Have To - Nevada Edition

Watching The Debate So You Don’t Have To – Nevada Edition

There were only six people on the stage tonight.   No Tom Steyer, no Andrew Yang and welcome Michael Bloomberg. 

A very interesting and combative debate tonight.  Plenty of attacks on Bloomberg.  Sanders got some attacks, but not as many as the front-runner would normally expect.  Pete and Amy don’t like each other and that showed.

The first hour or so was electric.  All of the attacks on…

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I Voted

We’ve got early voting in Tennessee and it extends until next Tuesday, at least here in Knox County.  I’ve been a Warren supporter since last summer, so it has been my plan to vote for her in the primary for a long time.  Recently, though, the rise of Bernie has changed the calculation a bit.  I was toying with the idea of holding off on voting until after the Nevada caucus to make sure that…