TonyPalmeri.Com Update For September 30, 2004

  1. My Take On the Presidential Debates
  2. The Tony Blogs
  3. 54th District Candidates on Tuition
  4. Cobb Brings Real Campaign To Oshkosh
  5. Vote for best Dylan song/album
  6. Earth Charter 2004
  7. Upcoming Events

1. My Take On The Presidential Debates: The so-called presidential "debates," a creature of the Republicrat front-group called the "Commission on Presidential Debates," begin tonight in Coral Gables, Florida. Representatives of Bush and Kerry signed a 32-page agreement that essentially guarantees the debates will be worth about as much as a blanket warmer in hell. (teaching and campaigning full-time really tests one's ability to create analogies!). Anyway, my take on the debates can be found in the October issue of the Valley Scene. I say the debates represent a Democracy Gap and Dispute Gap: http://www.tonypalmeri.com/mediarants31.htm

2. The Tony Blogs: UW Oshkosh Journalism professor Miles Maguire has established an online blog on which the candidates for the 54th Assembly District have been asked to respond to questions. You can find all the candidates responses here: http://www.oshkoshnews.org/candidatesforum/index.html

I have posted all of my responses on my own website. Here they are:

3. 54th Candidates on Tuition: I am the only candidate calling for a freeze on UW tuition, as you can see in these responses from the UW Oshkosh Advance-Titan http://www.advancetitan.com/story.asp?issue=11101&story=3076

4. Cobb Brings Real Campaign To Oshkosh: Unlike George Bush, who came to Oshkosh to have an ice-cream cone at Leon's, and John Edwards who spoke to an "invitation only" group at the Delta Restaurant, the Green Party's David Cobb brought a real campaign to Oshkosh. The entire community was invited, and even though "big D" Democrats have all over the nation tried to intimidate people out of voting their conscience, still about 100 people came to hear Cobb. It was incredible. Jeff Potts of the Oshkosh Northwestern covered the event: http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/local/stories/local_17870524.shtml as did Andrew Hellpap of the Advance-Titan: http://www.advancetitan.com/story.asp?issue=11102&story=3112

5. Vote for best Dylan song/album: In honor of Bob Dylan's visit to Oshkosh on November 2. the Oshkosh Northwestern is taking a poll of readers' favorite Dylan song and album: http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/ss/04/dylan/ For what it's worth, my favorite Dylan song is "It's Alright Ma, I'm only Bleeding" (that's the one with the line "Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked"). My favorite Dylan album is "Blood on the Tracks". I was actually quoted about the Dylan visit in Jim Lundstron's Post-Crescent story about it: http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/life_17827731.shtml

6. Earth Charter 2004: If you are in the Oshkosh area, come support these events! http://www.uwosh.edu/earthcharter/summit2004.php

7. Upcoming Events