I'm famous!

[eyesroll]

http://www.shepherd-express.com/shepherd/24/38/news_and_views/in_the_halls.html

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With three Democratic candidates already running for the Congressional seat held by Jim Sensenbrenner, the incumbent Republican will face one of his strongest opponents in some time. But Sensenbrenner also faces another force he probably didn't expect to contend with--a candidate's wife.

Democrat Vince Whitacre, a software tester from Waukesha, is getting additional exposure for his campaign through his wife, Stacie Rosenzweig Whitacre's Web site, http://candidateswife.blogspot.com. The site talks about her view of the campaign trail, among other observations, in a clever and witty style, offering reader interaction along the way--and, of course, a link to her husband's Web site: www.vince4congress.com.
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:puffpiece: (Hey, puff-pieces are good if they're, well, good.)

This is really spectacular. Only a tad's worth of insignificant misquoting. Of course, blogger is malfunctioning now so I can't do the Obligatory Blog Brag, but still.

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Brucey]

1. Congrats, I never knew someone famous before.

What's it like? Feel like running for governor of a state?

[eyesroll]

2. OK, to be fair, the Shepherd is an alt weekly.

But it's still fun.

[JHB]

3. Congrats!

But you realize, of course, now just about every candidate's spouse is going to have a campaign blog (and 99% of them will be ghost written by some staff member).

[eyesroll]

4. But now...I have proof I was first!

Gads, I'm giddy.
I do this for a living -- interview, write, hopefully not misquote too much -- but it's still very cool to be on the other side...

[LightTheMatch]

5. Hey!

I think you need a haircut... :)

[LightTheMatch]

6. By the way, what happened to WI?

I was looking at past election results and it looks like the new District 5 in Wisconsin is a pretty republican-looking suburban/rural district... but when I looked at 2000 election results it was heavily Democratic.

Was there some ugly redistricting in 2001, or is there some other explanation?

[eyesroll]

7. What is now most of WI-5 used to be WI-9, so use that as your comparison.

We used to be in WI-4 (Jerry Klezcka). . WI-5 used to be Tom Barret (D); he lost his seat in redistricting and decided not to move or challenge another D (Kleczka). We got redistricted into WI-5 (which is now Sensenbrenner), and WI-9 (Sensenbrenner's old district) went away (census).

So, no, there was no Big D Flight or anything, just some re-numbering.

[LightTheMatch]

8. Good job so far!

I'm glad you're aiming for some hefty fundraising through the primary season, looks like it will be very necessary.

[salin]

9. Kudos!

Nice write up. Good work! :thumbsup:

[bitchkitty]

10. Good for you!

clever and witty style

Read your blog, and I agree! I love reading about this, you're so great to share this view with us.

Pink suit? No way! Get a red one!

Blogger: you should use Nucleus or PostNuke, some kind of CMS instead. Then you won't be at the mercy of Blogger's servers!

[goobergunch]

11. Congratulations!

:toast:

Did they mention DU or the Research Thread? ;-)

[eyesroll]

12. Nope, sorry, Goob...

Next time, maybe? :-)