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What we learned at IDEA.
What we learned at the annual IDEA convention in French Lick last weekend is that the Obama campaign and the Indiana Democratic party are putting together an amazing state wide boots on the ground campaign.
Never before have I seen a national campaign so well organized and so committed to Indiana and all the Democrats and Progressives running throughout the state.
And the reason the Obama folks mentioned that they decided to put so many resources into Indiana is the level activism they saw at the grassroots level.
I believe what they saw was in no small part the activism, hard work and enthusiasm of all us who are part of Indiana Progressives and all of the progressive organizations we work with such as DFA, Indiana Equality and HCHP.
Shaw Friedman: Daniels’ Iraq Negligence Disqualifies 2nd Term
Reprinted from a post By Brian A. Howey On June 18, 2008 @ 10:39 am In HPI Weekly
By SHAW R. FRIEDMAN
LaPORTE - How could he have gotten it so wrong? How could Mitch Daniels have failed to properly advise his President and his country on the true costs of war? Yes, volumes have been written on how nearly "All the President’s Men" gave him bad advice in the lead-up to war and trimmed and tailored their views to suit the President’s inclination to wage a war of choice. But how could the man with 
ultimate responsibility for our federal budget - Mitch Daniels - have gotten war cost estimates so wrong when he was White House budget director? Shouldn’t that horrendous lapse of judgment raise continuing questions about his judgment now when it comes to objectively valuing state assets or resisting impulses to further privatize state resources like the Indiana lottery?
