Getting Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano May Have Gone to Mickey Kaus’s Head
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | 11 Comments
He’s running against Barbara Boxer in the Democratic primary:
Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he’ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed papers at with the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, although a spokeswoman there could not yet confirm the filing.
The Democrat has been centrist and even conservative on some of the issues on which Boxer has taken a more left-leaning stand, including immigration: He does not favor amnesty and favors a more restrictive national policy.
At his Slate blog, Kaus writes:
Next phase: Lowering expectations!
Bloggers running for public office could create some interesting questions for the FEC. Will an Instalanche be considered a “contribution in kind”? And what about getting re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano?
So far, the former “Who’s the Boss?” star-turned-mega-Tweep — with more than 700,000 followers — hasn’t mentioned Kaus’s Senate campaign, and her support is obviously crucial in the online community.
Alyssa Milano never re-Tweeted Harold Ford Jr. Just sayin’ . . .
UPDATE: Dr. James Joyner, dream-killer:
This would seem to be a classic protest candidacy, with next to zero chance of upsetting Boxer in the primary.
Just because you’ve never been re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano is no reason to lash out at Senator Kaus in a spiteful act of vengeance, Dr. J.
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11 Responses to “Getting Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano May Have Gone to Mickey Kaus’s Head”
March 2nd, 2010 @ 7:42 am
[…] that Slate would even allow it, would they have some sort of equal space requirement? And, as Stacy McCain jokes, “Bloggers running for public office could create some interesting questions for the […]
March 2nd, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
Maybe we should urge Alyssa to run against Boxer?
I’d tune into that debate, her going head to head with Boxer, as it were!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 9:12 am
Maybe we should urge Alyssa to run against Boxer?
I’d tune into that debate, her going head to head with Boxer, as it were!
March 2nd, 2010 @ 2:30 pm
I can’t wait for the day Mickey takes his signatures to the Registrar’s office. And the headline will be “Kaus Files”
March 2nd, 2010 @ 9:30 am
I can’t wait for the day Mickey takes his signatures to the Registrar’s office. And the headline will be “Kaus Files”
March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:12 pm
Maybe Mickey could comment on his favorite excitable blogger Andrew Sullivan. One of Sully’s former sock puppets wrote this today:
Now I recall Andrew Sullivan writing this about Ahmadinejad:
March 2nd, 2010 @ 11:12 am
Maybe Mickey could comment on his favorite excitable blogger Andrew Sullivan. One of Sully’s former sock puppets wrote this today:
Now I recall Andrew Sullivan writing this about Ahmadinejad:
March 2nd, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
Sorry to put such a long post above, but Mickey is pretty good at spotting “excitability” and inconsistency in a certain British expat blogger.
I suppose Sully’s abandonment of Israel is to be blamed on Bush too. That and an adoption of the general anti-semitism so fashionable in the British public school system.
March 2nd, 2010 @ 11:15 am
Sorry to put such a long post above, but Mickey is pretty good at spotting “excitability” and inconsistency in a certain British expat blogger.
I suppose Sully’s abandonment of Israel is to be blamed on Bush too. That and an adoption of the general anti-semitism so fashionable in the British public school system.
March 2nd, 2010 @ 11:18 am
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March 3rd, 2010 @ 5:16 pm
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