Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Last year, I helped a bit with the congressional campaign for Jerry McNerney in the neighboring congressional district, currently held by Republican Richard Pombo. Pombo, chair of the House Resources Committee , is the guy who sends out partisan mailers at taxpayer expense, who recently suggested selling off the national parks, and who has been tirelessly working to destroy the Endangered Species Act, finally passing his "Pombo Extinction Bill" in the House of Representatives. (Let's hope the Senate kills the bill.)

McNerney's just officially entered the race yesterday, and I'm going to help the campaign from time to time. I helped set up a weblog for the campaign, which is now "live" (though not yet linked to from the main site!)

McNerney still faces some opponents in the primary, but I think he's the right guy to take down the ultra-right-winger Pombo. Doing so will mean a lot for this district in California, but just as much nationally due to Pombo's current chairmanship.

Prompted by a comment by Simone, I've updated the RSS feed for this weblog to RSS 2.0 — it was 0.91 before! The weblog is still powered by Blosxom — I will start using Sandvox when I have the time to make the transition — and it's showing its age.