http://www.tatehausman.com Tate Hausman runs high-impact projects for progressive campaigns and groups. He thinks government should put people before profits (duh). Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:16:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/03/glenn-beck-targets-me/ As the only political professional in my family, I often get the question, "How do you think Obama is doing?" Sometimes the variation is "How's your man Obama doing?" or "What's Obama doing about [policy X]?" where policy X usually equals healthcare reform. This opinion piece from the Financial Times ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/03/an-answer-to-hows-obama-doing/ My friends at the Working Families Party have been under withering attack recently. But Tuesday saw a reversal of fortune -- the settling of a frivolous lawsuit that was distracting the WFP from its good work. A group of reactionary ex-Guiliani staffers had filed a campaign finance suit, not because they ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/02/working-families-party-suit-deflates/ OMG. This is crazy! That entertainment show EXTRA TV just did a segment about Lincoln and his home movies! I don't know how they found out about him but they did. How crazy is that??? Check out the segment on YouTube: http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/01/extra-tv-segment-on-lincolns-movies/ Software developers, heads up -- the Tides Center is offering a $10k prize to encourage you create "open source software that adds significant value to the nonprofit sector." See below. (Hat tip, Deb Schneider!) Tides is now accepting nominations for the $10,000 Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, an ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/01/10k-prize-for-public-interest-software/ Folks following the news this morning know that Haiti's capitol city, Port-au-Prince, has been devastated by a massive earthquake. Untold thousands are dead. Civic institutions have been destroyed. An already crumbled infrastructure has taken a massive blow. More deaths will surely follow, as food, water and medical supplies become unavailable ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/01/haiti-devastated-by-earthquake-you-can-help/ Roy did it! For months, I've been struggling with TateHausman.com. Someone (or more likely, some bot) hacked into my code and planted something ugly there. I couldn't find it. And it started spewing out all sorts of nonsense -- I think it was trying to sell Viagra to eastern Europeans. Or ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2010/01/roy-fixed-me/ A little news from the online organizing biz - the wonderful folks at ONE/Northwest have changed their name to Groundwire. It's a clever name, and changing it is long overdue. The organization's strategy had outgrown its brand. ONE/Northwest was an acronym, "Online Networking for the Environment." Very techy; too techy. ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2009/11/onenorthwest-is-now-groundwire/ The best political satire I've seen all year. Brilliant. Just brilliant. http://www.glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/ Here's the straight explanation about it, including Beck's attempt to silence the site in an international governing body (the type he's railed against in the past). Great stuff. http://www.tatehausman.com/2009/10/did-glenn-beck-rape-and-murder-a-young-girl-in-1990/ This is pretty cool. In 2008, a couple pro-Obama organizers founded TravelforChange.org, a simple website that connected Obama volunteers with airline miles donors. The idea was to get as many volunteers to swing states as possible. The PAC that I ran, Vote Today Ohio, got three or four volunteers to Ohio ... http://www.tatehausman.com/2009/09/travelforchange-org-an-obama-tool-persists/