#amanda curtis

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Had a little beach shoot glam sesh the other day with my dear Amanda! Glam, styling, & photo by me! We started makeup and hair at 2 in the morning to make it to Malibu by sunrise, and by the end of the day we were drenched and freezing - but it was all worth it! More photos coming soon! XX

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Extremely Rare Quadruple Rainbow Photographed in New York after Stormy Weather

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Quadruple #Rainbow at #glencove ny @LIRR station Today will be 4 pots of #gold #lucky #chasetherainbow #aprilshowers pic.twitter.com/4YUUveJuy6

— Amanda Curtis (@amanda_curtis) April 21, 2015

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Extremely Rare Quadruple Rainbow Captured Over New York

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16 elected officials and soon-to-be elected officials I'd like to meet in person

Since this will be my last blog post of 2014, I’d like to take the opportunity and list 16 elected officials and soon-to-be elected officials that I’d like to meet in person someday.

16. Minnesota State Representative Carly Melin (D-Hibbing) – Melin, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the Iron Range region of the state, is like me in many ways: Progressive on a wide range of…

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How to Buck the System Before it Bucks you

I have been a lapsed voter for some time now.  I have had valid reasons for my cynicism of the two parties and their big money shenanigans.  The political behemoths are so entrenched in machine politics, they are hard packing the ground where vital grass roots political organisms try to take root.  

I have been roused from my skepticism by a person on the Democratic ticket for U.S Senate here in Montana.  Getting involved in the effort for Amanda Curtis's bid for the Senate seat has only confirmed the reasons I had for my frustrations with the National Democratic party and the Democratic  Senatorial Campaign Committee.  They think they are too big to fail, and in their mechanical tendencies, they are failing the efforts of the young and new forces they will need to remain relevant in the future.

The National party picked John Walsh to be Montana's Senatorial Candidate when Senator Baucus took the  job as Ambassador to China.  Wash, as many of you know, dropped out of the race under a plagiarism scandal.  So Montana chose Amanda Curtis as their candidate.  The DSCC pumped a ton of money into Wash's campaign, but refuses to transfer that support to the candidate that Montana chose to replace him.

I'm not the only cynic here.  I've gleaned from the grumblings of state Democrats that they feel the National party is actually invested in Curtis's loss.  Why?  They feel she's too progressive for their taste and want to use her expected failed bid as an example of why they don't support Progressive candidates.  

Curtis has raised far more money in a much shorter time than any of the party experts thought was possible.  And a vast majority of that money has come from within the state.  Her opponent has raised far more money than her, a vast majority from out of state.  Her opponent is slathering Montana's airwaves with ads funded namely by Koch Brothers shadow groups.  In spite of her absence from the airwaves, entering late into the campaign, and being relatively unknown, she has risen in the polls, surpassing where Walsh was when he dropped out.  But the DCSS still refuses to help, saying "we're monitoring the situation" with 22 days left in the race.

Montanans that gave money to Walsh and the National party are having to pony up again because that cash disappeared into the maw of an out of touch political machine. If you are a Democrat that sends money to the National party, you have a say in how that money is spent. You can contact the DCSS and let them know how you feel about their lack of concern for a Senate seat that may change the balance of power in Washington. 

 A friend who has been making calls for the Curtis campaign said that dozens of people that he talked to relayed that they have been harassed by the DSCC for money.  He said that the appropriate response to that is "We'll support you when you decide to support us."

It doesn't matter if you live in Montana or not, and it only takes a moment to call them and ask them why they are reticent to support a state candidate that the state wants, and can elect with a little bit of help from them.

Democratic  Senatorial Campaign Committee:  202-224-2447.  It doesn't cost anything to do it, but the price for not doing it could be very steep, in this election, and in those to come.