First, you want to rec this up after reading. It's important. Don't forget.
This diary is part of the roll out series for a national effort to make our voices heard outside the netroots. I know you are as tired as I am of Rush and Glenn and all the other extremist radio hosts who clearly don't care about anyone who makes less than several million dollars.
I've been around here for some time and I take very seriously the responsibility to be part of the change we want to see. I believed in that long before Obama was even a twinkle in the eye of America with this for you newbies and those nostalgic for the days when 535 comments was monster.
CA-42: Hi, I'm Ron Shepston and I'm running for Congress
I jumped at the chance to help with this when I was asked by our own Jill Richardson if I wanted to help extend the progressive brand. We have claimed the netroots but we need to grow and reclaim radio with a responsibility to ALL citizens.
But, you know what? I don't think I'm at all unusual. I think I'm just like many of you out there who grew tired of the direction America was taken by Republicans. We may not have been all that happy with Democrats but we knew that our chance to make changes was possible only under Democrats.
The Progressive movement is growing so fast but we are not done yet. We can't count on anyone but ourselves. I never received a call from George Soros or Oprah offering to help when I ran for Congress. I didn't expect it. I'm not expecting it now.
So, here's an opportunity to really leverage our efforts. We get behind this and it will be big. It's Progressive radio owned by us. No more poorly-managed-shrinking-coverage "Progressive" radio who is forced to carry right wing hosts. This effort is about us. We made Obama; we took back our government. Now it is time to take back the media one medium at a time.
This effort is going to start in San Diego on Thursday 3pm to 6pm PDT.
If you're not aware of how important this is then read some DownWithTyranny's Howie Klein who says:
If This New San Diego Radio Station Takes Off, Francine Busby Will Be Elected To Congress Next Year
I might add that Bill Hedrick CA-44 will be elected as well as Beth Krom CA-48. And who knows what'll happen in the CA-42.
Stay tuned throughout the day for more diaries and join Jon Elliott who is going to come on DailyKos and liveblog THURSDAY at 11pm PDT (that's 2pm EDT) and he'll be logged in as Jill Richardson. Didn't make the deadline for registering in time to post under his name so just imagine a deeper voice when you see a diary pop up under Jill's name.
To make this our station. Our goal is 200 new members today.
You know the drill. Make it happen.
Update [2009-5-21 15:34:45 by CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream]: Thur 12:33pm PDT
h/t AlanF below for the entire series.
8am - MsGrin: Progressive Talk Made 2005 More Livable than 2004
10am - CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream: You want to know this.
12pm - Catjab: Relevant Talk
2pm - Jill Richardson: We're on the ground floor of something big
4pm - plf515: Blogathon for liberal radio
6pm - Ramara: Tomorrow The World
8pm - Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse: GOP Rage Talkers
10pm - Top Comments: True Blue Radio Edition (asimbagirl)
12am - boatsie: TRUE BLUE RADIO: "TAG! YOU'RE IT."