Reisinger's blog

This morning to a packed house at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, Donna Brazile stated something to this degree "I'm not supposed to be partial but I am hoping that we host the Democratic Convention in this state next year." Which won her a roaring applause from the crowd assembled to honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Donna Brazile is currently one of the VIce Chairs of the Democratic National Committee.

We have just gotten the word that a forward thinking group from California called "Progressive Kick" has targeted Patsy Keever, Jennifer Weiss, Rick Glazier and Josh Stein to help give them a financial boost in their campaigns. They are going to double all online donations given to these campaigns.

Their ActBlue site states:

"We've vetted these candidates very carefully with multiple experts/polling data in each state and are sure that each one is in a close but winnable race and that control of Congressional redistricting in their state is at stake."

They go on to say, "all of our candidates are progressive leaders with real backbones unlike some Democratic members of Congress who we’ll have to hold our noses to vote for in order to keep a majority."

Tonight on The Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, Asheville City Councilmen Cecil Bothwell will talk about nearly not being able to hold office in NC, because it is against the law for an atheist to hold office in the state.

The story has seen press from the NY Times (http://bit.ly/82FIcQ) to the Washington Post (http://bit.ly/5wdBaL). Tonight's Rachel Maddow show should be a great show to watch.

Patsy Keever remembers your name. She listens and recalls details of your life. It’s uncanny – one of the first things that tells you that Patsy is in this for you, not for her.

Maybe it’s the decades of teaching public school or her three terms on the Buncombe County Commission. Maybe it’s just Patsy.

She greets volunteers and, with a touch on the shoulder, thanks them for being there. They come back because it’s fun. During her last race, Monday night was Quizzo with volunteers and staff.

Patsy attracted close to a thousand volunteers from the full spectrum of the community during what the New York Times called her “vigorous challenge (http://bit.ly/72tOjo)” to Congressman “Chainsaw Charlie” Taylor in 2004. A tourist from California wandered into her headquarters around lunch one day, just to see what was going on.

“This is a Senate race?” he asked, after looking around at the roomful of volunteers.

“It’s a House race,” the greeter corrected him.