...a Pentecostal convention in Las Vegas, somebody's coming out of it different than they went in but not necessarily for the better. The Texas Advocacy something or over is hosting an event at the Barton Creek Spa and Resort. For a $100,000 donation to Speaker Craddick's campaign fund you can enjoy a full list of events designed to keep the lobbyists in compliance with weak ethics laws.
Here's my favorite breakout:
10:00 a.m. — 10:50 a.m.
Blog and Blackberry Lobbying
How today’s real-time e-mail and Internet communications impact the lobby and political leadership and the associated ethical and legal questions
Panel Background: Discussion of the practical, political and ethical issues arising from real-time news and legislative communications in the process of governing. Included are issues such as journalistic integrity vs. political spin; when online news and opinion becomes leg. advertising requiring disclosure; when blogs and special interest newsletters and RSS feeds become a campaign contribution or a reportable campaign expenditure; and what are the next steps in the e-frontier.
Confirmed Speakers: Paul Burka, Texas Monthly; Mike Hailey, Capitol Inside; Harvey Kronberg, Quorum Report; Ross Ramsey, Texas Weekly
OMG, tell more more about the e-frontier. (My eyes just rolled out of my head at the thought of Paul Burka and Harvey Kronberg talking about e-frontiers.) Burka, a print stalwart that has hated blogs and when he got his own gets freaked out by the comments and Kronberg, who...don't get me wrong love the QR, but wouldn't know an e-frontier if it bit him the ass.
If you are interested in the impact of New Media on campaigns and policy, contact me or Pink Lady and for a reasonable fee we'll perform a skit. In the nude!
SOMEONE had their hateorade this morning...
And PD, I can't do a skit naked. I would never expose my knees.
sounds too expensive for bullshit.
I can't believe anyone in the lobby would be dumb enough to go to an event that will help CradDICK raise money to primary members of his own party.
Do they really think that won't bite them on the ass?
actually, his sphere of influence in not the over 50's crowd - it the crowd of 50.
Why the rancor about comments to the blog of a magazine? Even the newspapers edit comments. Maybe subsribers and advertisers for those rags don't want to see a bunch of profane fucking comments. Send your comment and if its good enough or even relevant, it will make it to the blog page. Editors edit. Its what they do. I welcome their entrance to the sphere even on their own terms.
The whole worldww is not quite ready for the deranged insanity of ITPT commenters anyway.
Cyncial
Gee thanks for sharing
Dork
Your quite welcome, naon.
Anon -
Pink Dome controls its comments, too, you nitwit. It's called responsibility, and it's because people can't rein in the lies and smears all by themselves.
Nitwit?
thanks for the laugh
Cynical Optimist,
On behalf of the deranged insane, I thank you.
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Burka is a giant pussy, he has to control the comments on his blog so as not to offend all the pols and lobbyists he needs to suck up to to get quotes, He wants to act like he's this outsider writing cutting edge opinions but he really is about a big an insider as you can get. I'm sure his shit is convincing to the over 50 crowd that thinks he's "sticking it to the man" every month in Texas Monthly but if your looking for biting commentary you can forget it.
His best and worst legislators article this year was particularly horrible and if the paper it was written on wasnt' so harsh I could easily have wiped my ass with it.
Boooooooring.