August 14th, 2011
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Too Far? CWA Picketers Stage Mock Funeral Outside Verizon Exec’s Home
On Friday evening, up to 3,000 protesters from the CWA, IBEW, and other union supporters conducted a candlelight vigil and mock funeral outside of Verizon Chairman Ivan Seidenberg’s home in West Nyack, New York. According to Patch.com, the “vigil” lasted about two hours and began with an SUV carrying a coffin as protesters (including children) [...]
RS Gathering: Tim Scott (R, SC-01).
Tim Scott was elected last year on a general reform slate in South Carolina: he was one of the candidates that we took an interest in, so it was great that he got to speak with our readers Friday night. Afterward, we spoke with Tim briefly: Sound was a little off at first: we [...]
Perry releases campaign video
Texas Governor Rick Perry not only announced his candidacy for president at the RedState Gathering 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina today. He also released a new campaign video and has an event scheduled in New Hampshire this evening. The terrific video is about Gov. Perry’s vision for getting America working again: I even like the description the Perry [...]
RS Gathering 2011: Ted Cruz (R CAND, TX-SEN PRIMARY)
Ted is an old friend of the site and the RS Gathering: he spoke at our first one, and he spoke today as well. We talked briefly afterward: Ted’s site is here.
So . . . Yeah. That Happened.
That happened. Here’s my introduction. It is an honor to introduce the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. Rick Perry knows the power of the American Dream. He’s the son of tenant farmers… among the first in his family to graduate from college… a proud Air Force veteran… and married to his high school sweetheart, Anita [...]
RS Gathering 2011: Get Involved
I can remember back when this website was enthused to get 30K hits a day and many days got less than 20K. I am sure some front pagers can remember when it got much less. I can remember three years ago when we started the RedState Gathering as a means for RedState diarists and commenters [...]
RS Gathering 2011: Nikki Haley.
As always, we try to take the time to talk briefly with some of the candidates and politicians that attend the RedState Gathering. As Governor Halley was so kind as to host us this year, I thought that I’d start with her. Governor Haley has of course been long a friend of the site, and [...]
Palin is not going to run
“It’s fair to them to give them an answer here, in short order, so that they can jump on board with someone else.” – Sarah Palin August 13, 2011 With those words, former Gov. Sarah Palin made it clear to me that she will not run for president in 2012. You don’t tell your supporters “they [...]
Gov. Rick Perry’s announcement of his run for President
As Moe and Erick noted below, “it happened.” Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced his intent to run for President of the United States. Video streaming by Ustream The first Redstate Gathering was in Atlanta in 2009, and now we’re on our third one. No matter what GOP candidate you support for the nomination, this [...]
RS Gathering: Perry declares.
Governor Perry has made it official today: he’s running for President. Reactions from various and sundry Contributors and alumni within reach of the bar: Ben Howe: holy monkey Leon Wolf : well, that happened. Aaron Gardner: Rick Perry just became President. Now we just need to wait for the election. Brian Simpson: right person, right [...]
