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Donkey Con

The parade kicks off at 11 a.m. starting on Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway at Rochester Ave. and continuing to Grand Army Plaza. Be sure to look for Jonathan and Team Tasini and say hello!
(The chicken also made an appearance)

Tasini challenges Clinton
Sunday, September 03, 2006
By Frederic Pierce

Jonathan Tasini believes he's more than a speed bump on U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's road to re-election.

The underfunded, unknown and often unwelcome Democratic challenger to the former first lady sees himself as the conscience of New York's Democratic Party.

"I'm where the majority of voters are, and she is not," said Tasini, citing Clinton's support for the war in Iraq as his primary reason for launching his against-all-odds campaign against the party icon.

Today's NY Times editorial, in a nutshell:

While Hillary Clinton is unwilling to "risk political capital for principle," and "has hardly been a profile in courage" on the war, she is nevertheless not quite as bad as Lieberman. Also, she "works well" with Republicans. Tasini, on the other hand, might ruffle the feathers of "egotistic and generally conservative politicians" in Washington. And we can't have that. Therefore, the Times endorses the incumbent.

There, I just saved you the trouble of reading the whole thing.

Yesterday Jonathan visited the New York State Fair in Syracuse where he enjoyed the sausage and greeted fair visitors.

Senator Clinton and President Bill Clinton were also at the fair and were dogged by a mysterious chicken.

The chicken received a lot of attention, even warranting its own security detail from the Clinton campaign.

On another note, there've been two great audio pieces on Tasini lately. If you missed the WNYC interview you can listen here.

Jonathan also did a podcast interview with Shelly Linaya (Citizen Against Lies). Click here to listen to the podcast.