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...while another griped: "Daily Kos is not your personal press release piggybank." The next day, she returned to the blog to try to explain herself. "I don?t have the kind of schedule that allows me to respond to every comment," Pelosi wrote, "but I will a delegate a staffer on my future posts to answer your questions...
...embrace of the blogs has helped spawn a new kind a staffer on Capitol Hill: the Internet outreach specialist. In Reid?s office, Ari Rabin-Havt, 27, who worked for Moveon.org and on the Internet team for John Kerry?s presidential campaign, spends his entire day reading blogs, responding to hundreds of e-mails from bloggers and figuring out how to get stories favorable to Senate Democrats onto the blogs. The relationship is helpful for both sides; Rabin-Havt will feed documents on key issues to the bloggers, which they like because it helps them post faster, and the close...
...Several of the potential presidential contenders have already hired staffers to help them connect with the online world. Warner now spends one hour each week with his blog advisor, a prominent liberal blogger named Jerome Armstrong. After Pelosi was bashed for not sticking around to answer questions on Daily Kos, Warner?s team helped him avoid making the same mistake: after Warner posted on Daily Kos and left for a trip to Iowa, one of his online staffers, Nate Wilcox, stayed around to respond to questions. (Some people still wanted to hear more from the candidate himself. "The comments were...
...fact, there's one obvious thing Congress and the President could do. But around Capitol Hill only a few lonely voices are willing to talk about it - most of them not for attribution. "You have to encourage people to conserve," says one Republican staffer...
...increasing the punishment for price gouging by oil companies - although few if any examples of price gouging have been discovered in the latest round of price hikes - and it sailed through the House. Asked whether gas prices might be reduced if Congress publicly encouraged people to conserve, one Wilson staffer replied, "I think you kind of have a natural solution: as prices go higher, there?s a natural trend by consumers to conserve." Translation: let the market, not us, be the messenger...