my sister is running. you helped to do this. thank you, du.

sheila cut her wcpt spot on tuesday, and she and i got a half hour on the ben joravsky's show.
here is a link to video of our visit. sheila and i come in at the 1 hr mark.

https://www.facebook.com/mo.cahill.3/posts/10155548680240810?notif_id=1540565901754673¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic

please knr.

eta- i sorta blanked on his question about my first political experience, but i have since remembered that it started w a running trash talk w a girl 1 year ahead of me in high school about nixon v humphrey.

my sister is running. do you want to support progressive radio?

we are fortunate here in chicago to have held on to our former air america affilliate, wcpt.
they have a combination of syndicated talent like stephanie miller, thom hartmann, bill press, and local talent like ben joravsky. ben is a long time investigative journalist from the chicago reader, and a great repository of local political lore.
his show has been visiting each of the collar counties, talking to the dem candidates that are popping up all through the area. recently, they had my sister on the show, along w the rest of the blue wave at the bottom of the ticket in formerly solid red dupage county.
here is the podcast, sheila comes in at about 1:05.
https://soundcloud.com/chicagosprogressivetalk/the-b-en-joravsky-show-101018-meet-the-candidate-special-dupage-county
one thing sheila says is that most of what she knows about politics she learned from ben.
and here she is on the ballot. proof of the importance of progressive radio.
and here is progressive radio, helping her and all the rest of those often overlooked down ticket races, giving them a platform.

we have had many a conversation around here about how to counter rw talk radio. air america took a shot at it, but it was sabotaged from the start.
i have to say i still grind an axe about the dem candidates in those early days who DID NOT ADVERTISE. i dont remember ever hearing a spot for john kerry at the time. what a great place that would have been to hit back at the swift boaters. what a great place it would have been to build the necessary public support if he had challenged the ohio vote count.
but no.

well, here we are, at the bottom of the ticket, wanting to give back.

here is what you can do to help local, progressive radio-
sheila wants to run a spot of wcpt. we need to raise $1,000.
sheila doesnt want to take my money, and does things like sending me checks to cover things that i wanted to pay for. but she will take it this way- i will match whatever du’ers give to this effort to build the blue wave.

so dig deep my friends. i promise this is my last ask.
c’mon. support progressive radio, and sheila.

https://sheila4dupage6.org/donate/

also, if you want to do paypal instead of actblue, send to sheila4dupage6@gmail.com

c'mon folk. build that blue wave. it starts at the bottom of the ballot.

eta, please knr if you cant give.

Chicago's Sip of Hope - a cafe where it's OK not to be OK

Prompted by the suicide rate in the United States, a coffee shop in Chicago is trying to reach out to those struggling with mental health issues.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/chicagos-sip-hope-cafe-its-181008082440403.html?fbclid=IwAR3Y3wdkUMwAfxQr-ifu-F-cJXE7qGWeGlhm_4HMl74R06iedLG2FdkInoI

imma have to check this out.


eta direct link.
https://sipofhope.com

and imma have to bring biff.

has anyone here ever done mass text messaging?

want to do a couple gotv texts to our lists.
i think i can manage this from my laptop, as i can connect to my phone. but wondering what else there is.

my sister is running. she is on wcpt right now. all the dupage dem candidates.

my sister is running. a little local press.

this is her profile in the daily herald, a suburban chi newspaper.

http://e-edition.dailyherald.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=dfc73078-c5e6-48e9-ae5e-cadbf5adec56

Q. Is there a specific service or amenity that is lacking in the county? If so, how do you propose to provide and fund it?

A. I think we need another way to help the homeless in our county. There are no numbers that this problem will get any better, so a new approach is needed.

I would love to take the blighted house initiative that the county is using to take

possession of blighted properties and find the right place to build a tiny home village to house our homeless veterans and other homeless with dignity.

As a real estate investor, I have spent the past three years evaluating distressed properties and turning them into quality homes for the first-time buyer market and I think that background makes this issue a good fit.

I have already spoken with contractors who are interested in participating in this with a net zero, or energy-independent plan. Several cities in the U.S. are using this approach to solve their homeless problem.

I understand not everybody would want something like this in their neighborhood, but sometimes blighted properties are blighted particularly because of where they are. Better to turn properties into useful communities than to allow them to rot, and take down whole neighborhoods.

It is a myth that such a purpose is a net negative. Lifting up those who need a hand is how communities succeed. It would give the homeless an address, a crucial step in getting a job that would give them the leg up they need to be contributing members of our county.

This would also result in great savings to the health care system in reduced ER visits and better health outcomes. The stabilization that comes from just this one issue can pay for such an effort. Hospitals in other cities are directly investing in such endeavors to protect their own bottom lines, and it is working.

I would look for grants to help fund the project and seek out collaboration with those who are promoting this idea across the country. But even at the bottom line, this is a win-win proposition.

"murder boards" or suborning perjury?

when the reports were that jk was spending days in the white house "prepping" for his hearing, i said- hmm. why do you need days of prep to tell the truth?

now it occurs to me that those days were about coming up w alt stories about the devil's triangle, etc, and texting old buddies to "get their story straight"
no wonder it took 3 days.

if this was mcghan's work, isnt that suborning perjury?
and shouldnt a judge know that?

they should both be disbarred.