By Disco JeriCongresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones was my hero. She had such integrity, and she was such a great woman and amazing public official. I feel so blessed that I had the good fortune of meeting her this year and telling her to her face that s…

This evening, August 20, 2008 we have all learned that Representative Tubbs Jones died today. Over the past ten years, I learned much about the relationship between law, politics, and democracy by observing Representative Tubbs Jones’ political career….

Heidi Li’s Potpourri: Stephanie Tubbs JonesI am putting up this link to an earlier post I wrote in recognition of Representative Tubbs Jones, because the Associated Press has reported that she has been hospitalized - the details are not known. I have …

Dear Mr. Clinton,I hope you are having a fabulous Birthday! If by chance you are celebrating your birthday on Martha’s Vineyard, please tell your secret servicemen not to shoot that colorful lady in the tree! That’s my mother, Granny-O!, “Secret Agent …

At a time when the Democratic Party needs leadership, what do we hear from its Chair, Howard Dean, and the planned Chair of its upcoming convention, Nancy Pelosi? Nada, nothing, zippo. A resounding silence. I cannot say I find it surprising. I can say …

Yesterday’s news that Senator Clinton was going to have her name placed in nomination (as it should have been in the first place) was completely undermined by a degree of political stupidity by Obama and the DNC so stupefying that one would think it wa…

In 1994 Geraldine Ferraro was inducted into the The National Women’s Hall of Fame (NWHF), located in Seneca Falls, NY, and it is worth reading the NWHF entry about about her. It is the most truthful characterization of her I have read on the web late…

Significant political announcements should be made in a forum where the politician making them immediately takes unscripted, unvetted questions from an independent press corps. While I may be critical of members of the press at times, journalists are …

After corrupting Democratic rules and procedures to try and force a dishonest, inept, and clownish candidate down the throats of the majority of the Democratic Party who have rejected him, the leadership of the Democratic Party (an oxymoron if there e…

As frustration mounts over The Democratic Party’s failure to squarely address the problems of an Obama candidacy and the importance of making it clear that the Party would welcome a Clinton candidacy at least as much as an Obama one, the level of vitri…

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton keeps on working while those around her take vacations, lay low on bus tours, or spend time laying out the melodramas of their lives on national television.Senator Clinton is making appearances in Nevada, touting the impo…

“I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’.”Yesterday, August 4 was Senator Barack Obama’s birthday. As part of his celebration and has become the norm among…

PrologueYesterday, one of my aunts asked me why I have been working hard on political advertising. I explained that I believe the Democratic Party must demonstrate its commitment to democratic procedures if there is any hope of the eventual Democratic …

The original United States Constitution, without amendments, was ratified at a convention: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 held in Philadelphia. At the time there was significant controversy over the very idea of a Constitution that would robustl…

This country is literally founded on political conventions - not party conventions, but political meetings where representatives of the American colonies met in Congresses and ultimately at the Constitutional Convention of 1887 held in Philadelphia whi…

During this weekend a new friend, someone whose assistance to the The Denver Group has been crucial, ran a major book sale for the benefit of a library in the area. My friend’s efforts put me in mind of some of the books I consider most relevant to wha…

This just in from reporter Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer who covered Dr. Dean’s recent stop in Charlotte.Speaking to reporters later on his bus, he dismissed the protesters.”I’m not sure all of them are Clinton supporters,” he said. “I think so…

Although The Denver Group knows that this year’s convention is being “negotiated” and also knows that people other than Dr. Dean play a role in deciding how the DNC will conduct its convention, in my individual capacity - not as co-founder of The Denve…

What is she really saying? Does anyone have any of that invisible ink reverser?Dear Gretchen,Thank you for the special contribution you made to our campaign as a volunteer. We made and lived history, and it could not have been done without you!Our loca…

Don Fowler’s letter has been written about elsewhere and has received a reaction appropriate to its arrogance and stupidity, characteristics that seems to head the list of DNC transgressions in a year that was supposed to be a cakewalk for the Democra…