And keep in mind that he doesn't use Act Blue on his home page, e-mails, or the links that Lowell puts up on Kos.  He's at 137K now, was close to 115 if I remember correctly when the scandal hit, seems like a good week to me.

over $20,000 in just a couple days.  Obviously, Jim Webb is surging, and there's no end in sight.

As I've mentioned before, my kids are adopted and are from Asia.  Allen's slur had many sides to it and one is this.  In effect he's saying -- if you're not white you don't belong -- at best you're a second class citizen.  I don't want my kids treated that way.  I don't want anyone's kids treated that way.

Allen going out to southwest and playing the hill people for chumps made my blood boil.  Why did he pull this mean slur out in Dickenson County?  Are folks in Dickenson a bunch of ignorant bigots?  One Virginia, Jim Webb.

will looooove his oh-so-clever "sense of humor," his obscure racial epithets (from his French mother, no less!), and his bullying of a 20-year-old "colored" person.  That's insulting, but not just to S.R. Siddarth.  That's insulting to the good people of SWVA, the vast majority of whom want nothing to do with bigotry or bullying of any kind.  But it's fascinating that George Allen, California born and raised, is so ignorant of what he insultingly calls the "real Virginia."

And Dad says George Allen is, "a red-ass fool".  This from a man of little formal education, but a lifetime of experience. He is confused by the language, but the tone and body-language are unmistakable - George Allen is a mean spirited Divider. The hills are littered with his kind, but we don't have to elect them to public office. Virginia deserves better than George Allen.

Red-ass fool!  That's one of the best descriptions I've ever heard.

....have a history of activism from the early days of the UMW, to the fight against mountaintop removal going on right now.  Urban perceptions of rural America, especially Appalachia,  have been destorted by years of stereotyping in the mainstream media.  We're either noble proud folks filled with folk wisdom living in a Currier and Ives home in the woods, or we are ignorant violent rednecks looking to lynch somebody. 

The truth is--most of us are a lot like the rest of America.  George Allen doesn't understand that.  Mountain people, like most everybody else, work hard, want their kids to have more opportunity than we did, and worry about the future of America. 

 

my wife once met a descendent of the Mountain people forceably removed in order to create Shenandoah National Park.  She became fascinated, and wrote a long (I know, because I typed it) paper on the subject, doing tons of archival research into contemporaneoues news coverage, interviewingt descendents, etc.

We have loved our travels and stays in towns in or along the Mountains.

We go to the Mountain Heritae Crafts Fair at Harper's Ferry regularly.

At one point we almost bought a house that backed up onto Shenandoah National Park and which contained a graveyard of mountain people to which they still had an easement for access.

I greatly admire the strong independent streak many of the people from the Southern mountains have shown over the centuries.  I can also remember listening to an old Appalachian singer at the Folk Life Festival who made it clear that he was a miner, and thus a strong union man.  And we have and have devoured all of the Foxfire books.

Stereotypes of any kind, even if ostensibly positive, are always somewhat destructive, they keep us from seeing the real persons hidden behind them.

Thanks for your postings here.

I can imagine fundraising surging. Each day, starting Monday, there were three or four recommended diary posts and/or front pagers and each went through the roof with 400+ comments and in each of those there was always liberal peppering (pun intended) of people saying they were donating or telling others to go donate. I can't wait to see numbers on the surge.

The question is not whether dailykos diaries were recommended. The question is whether big time Democratic donors have finally stepped up to the plate and given to Webb.

yes it is nice that the Boxer email brought in 20K.  But if we brought in 20K everyday, that'sonly 600K per month, not enough to run a meaningful campaign.

As important as it is to get all the small to medium donations that we can, in this short a period of time it is insufficient.

We need a lot of 4 digit donors.  The max a couple can give for the general cycle is 4,200.  Even had you 1,000 such donors, that is only half of what is needed between now and November to run a meaningful campaign.

Thus Jim has to talk to large donors.  There have to be more events with the names that shake the big money from the tree, like the event Clinton will do at Chuck Robb's house. 

I'd like to see Don Beyer and Harris Miller hitting up their networks for contributions for Jim to help us take this seat.  So far, other than Miller's appearance at the unity rally in Charlottesville, both seem to be missing in action.

Don Beyer's help would be effective.  Harris Miller's, not so much.

in the high tech industry.  Of course, given the disagreement between Miller and Webb on outsourcing and H1B visas, that might not be a successful path to mine.

While he's there for Webb, he could say that he doesn't hold Jim Webb responsible for that cartoon that Wadhams says they plan to use.  Miller screwed up on that one and did a lot of damage to his own party's candidate.  He can easily fix this if Allen uses it, and Wadhams has said he will.

Miller is not a big name.  Miller does not attract many people.  Remember, Webb had a larger number of contributors than Miller.  Who would Miller invite?  Company CEO's who have been exporting our jobs or importing cheap labor to replace us?

Further, I don't expect Miller to suddenly tell Virginia voters that Webb was not responsible for the cartoon when at first Miller blamed Webb.

But he has plenty of wealthy ones, and Webb needs every dollar can get. 

Plus, if Miller wants to ever get the Democratic Nomination for...well, any office, he's going to have to defend Webb when the time comes.  His campaign got Webb into this mess.  It was a desperate attack on Webb at the end of the primary.  If he wants Democrats to ever support him again, he has to be willing to take it back if Allen uses it against him.