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Gary Hooser has a long blog on DailyKos today at
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/28/05053/2336, and his blog has already has attracted 370 comments, and was listed on the DailyKos home page in the “Recommended Diaries” list for a while, although it is no longer on that list (sic transit gloria mundi! Has Gary already had his 15 minutes of fame? )

Gary helped feed the fame by replying to many of the comments. He must have been up most of the night!

Most of the comments are fairly short. However, David Raatz chose to contest Gary’s assertion that he is the most progressive candidate in the race. David, writing under the subject title of “Gary is a great guy,” opines at length that Mazzie Hirono’s progressive credentials are equal to Gary’s. This in itself set off a debate, with 19 comments, including one from Gary, asking about where she was blogging. In effect, he was challenging her to an online debate. Someone else pointed out that Mazie has been endorsed by EMILY’s List, which has designated her as a featured candidate. That writer provided a link to Mazie’s website, at
http://mazieforcongress.com. But that drew the comment from someone else that Mazie is an “establishment Democrat,” and therefore part of the old crony system. This drew a rebuttal from another commenter. Elsewhere (the list of comments is long!), someone else contested Gary’s claim to being the most progressive candidate, instead nominating Mazie Hirono and Colleen Hanabusa for that honor, alluding to a “great article” in the Honolulu Weekly
([here] )

Gary’s fundraising efforts were said to be lagging behind compared to Hirono at 335K, Hanabusa at 113K and Schatz at 120K.

Someone else chimed in with support for Brian Schatz.

Gary is a novice blogger, but he’s learning fast, and is paying attention!

Anyway, there’s a lot of action on Gary there!

Bob Schacht