Archive for February, 2010
A new examination of text messaging data from six progressive non-profit organization finds that while their text messaging list grew by about half in 2009, only a tiny sliver of people who join a texting list — just 2% — do so by responding to a offline pleas to text a shortcode from their mobile phone. But, finds the study, once joined, those members can be responsive allies. Texters respond to requests to make an advocacy phone call at a rate some five times that of those folks who are called to action via email. (emphasis mine)
-from 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks by M+R Strategic Services and MobileActive.org
Right idea, wrong President.
for the week ending February 21, 2010
- Media Matters: CPAC has always been a welcoming venue for the far-right fringe.
- Think Progress: CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture.
- Steve Benen says “[Scott] Brown is quickly proving himself to a dim-witted clown.”
- Hey, guess who else has signed on the The Mount Vernon Statement? The Traditional Values Coalition.
- Austin Killer Becoming a Hero to the Radical Right.
- Jeffrey Rosen: Just how radical is the chief justice?
- David Neiwert: Tea Party speaker wants Sen. Patty Murray to ‘get hung.’
- Gary Bauer calls The Mount Vernon Statement “a seminal document reflecting both the past and the future of intellectual conservatism.”
- LifeNews.com, National Clergy Council, National Pro-life Religious Council, Operation Outcry, Priests for Life, Susan B. Anthony List, Wallbuilders and others are joining forces to launch a series of “Voter Registration Sundays.”
- Quote of the Day from the AFA’s Bryan Fischer: “Our first order of business is to identify candidates who will be guided by the moral law of God in forming public policy, whose worldviews align with the value system found in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and help them become our ‘ministers of God,’ secular priests exercising sacred authority in the public square.”
- IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
- Liz Cheney at CPAC: Obama’s Incompetence Is Getting People Killed
- Dick Armey at CPAC: Obama is an Arrogant, Incompetent Ideologue
- TPM: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Rolls Back Non-Discrimination Protections For Gay State Workers.
- TFN: How the Far Right ‘Guides’ Voters with Lies.
- A Truth Wins Out (TWO) and South Florida Gay News (SFGN) investigation revealed that a Wall Street criminal mastermind who was convicted in 1987 of “fraud of spectacular scope” has secretly reinvented himself as a moral leader who “cures” gay and lesbian people.
- Only Orly Taitz could find a way to turn a $20,000 fine levied against her for frivolous legal filings into an opportunity to prove that President Obama was not born in the U.S.
as always, these items come predominantly from Right Wing Watch and Hatewatch
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