Weekend Picnic Basket

by: Dean Barker

Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 21:51:08 PM EDT

* Don't forget about our Blue Hampshire Bash in Concord on May 3rd.  Should be loads of fun.  More reminders as we get closer to it, and thanks, Jon.

* Grant Bosse hits "Hypocritical Horn" over her lobbyist money:

"We shouldn't be surprised that our self-proclaimed front-runner wants other candidates to return lobbyists' contributions while she cashes their checks," Bosse concluded. "Whether the issue has been taxes, earmarks, or campaign finance, so far Jennifer Horn has been nothing but talk."

* Speaking of the NH-02 follies, Laura recently wrote about how Huckabee has set up a PAC to help candidates like Bob Clegg.  Unfortunately for Clegg, this is what the Huckster has in mind:

He met with NRCC chair Tom Cole and NRSC chairman John Ensign yesterday and discussed ways he could be helpful to GOP congressional candidates.  

[Huckabee] said that he was going to focus on long-shot candidates, folks like him who weren't give much of a shot to win.

* The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg calls the Weather Underground question in the debate "pure McCarthyism."  He's right.

* Please, Condi, pleeeeaaassssee run for Veep.

* The NHDP has a new Executive Director.

* Hillary Clinton lies about MoveOn, a group originally established to help out Bill during the Lewinsky scandal. (Note: "Lie" is a strong word.  But when you see a politician of any stripe trying to conflate Iraq and Afghanistan so that you can misidentify citizens outraged by a needless war of choice with magical "dirty hippies" who oppose all wars absolutely, you're going to get strong words from me.)

* At the gas station nearest me, regular unleaded clocked in $3.39 a gallon today. My driving is pretty much restricted at this point to work and gorcery shopping, where food prices have escalated to such an extent that I literally wince as the items go through the scanner.  George Bush, John Sununu, Judd Gregg, and yes, you too, Jeb Bradley, are too be commended for being such fantastic stewards of our economy:

* Who knew? Flatlanders are two dimensional (this answers many a question I've had, being one myself).

* On Monday, Steve Marchand will be in Las Vegas, giving a keynote address entitled Developing, Executing and Transforming Results in Local Government at the National City & County Performance Summit (email).

* Next Wednesday the Shaheen campaign will be doing a statewide day of visibility.  Click the link to see where and at what times.  If you can make it, it'd be great to see some user diaries with pix of the events show up on BH.