Tim Walz is quoted in Jonathan Kaplan's article in today's The Hill, Bloggers, pols flock to YearlyKos:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are scheduled to attend the convention, but it is increasingly likely that Congress will remain in session on Saturday to finish its work before heading home for the August recess.
Freshman Democrats are slated to make appearances on various panels, but their attendance is questionable given the congressional schedule. Perhaps more than any other group, freshman Democrats owe their current livelihoods, in part, to netroots activists, who organized and raised money for them online.
“Once we started getting posts at DailyKos, we saw a huge increase in traffic to our website that helped us raise $40,000,” Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) said. “That was huge at the time in helping get the word out.”
Walz said a local blog, www.bluestemprarie.com , has driven news coverage in some of the newspapers in his congressional district
Jeepers! Who knew? We are deeply appreciative of Congressman Walz's mention, and of the district's press, whether we can be said to drive its coverage or not. Can any other congressional district boast of eight dailies? And weeklies likely the Fillmore County Journal?
We have herded ourselves to Chicago, where we bedded down in a flophouse in Chinatown. Overnight, we apparently lost an "i' from our URL if the Hill's report is to be believed. We have written them to see they help locate it.
We haven't seen any dirty hippies yet, but we have spotted the liberal media elite. Probably French.
Update: The Rochester Post Bulletin reports Walz campaign funds used to pay for babysitters
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