In a 5-0 vote the Federal Election Commission has ruled that former presidential candidate Wesley Clark will have to repay $257,226.00 for accepting excessive contributions over the legal limit from some 54 donors and for underpayment of aircraft flights from donors.

FEC Rules Wesley Clark Owes $257,226 From 2004 Campaign

A total of 23 states may hold primaries on February 5, 2008. By the end of the day as many as 50% of the delegates will have been chosen. The end of the long primary season is changing the game plans of all candidates as they figure out how to put their resources into the larger delegate rich states and to assess if Iowa and New Hampshire will have as much impact as they had in the past.

23 States May Hold Primaries On February 5

An update on veteran blogger Steve Gilliard who had heart surgery today. Details are somewhat sketchy but the last update on his site today indicated the surgery was delicate and the surgeons decided to leave his chest open and keep him sedated and hope to be able to close the chest cavity on Monday. Your thoughts and prayers are needed.

Update on Gilly--Not out of the Woods Yet

Conservative radio host Michael Savage is considering a run for president as a third party candidate. Savage has a following of millions of Republicans around the country and has indicated he will run if 5 million will vote Yes in his web poll.

So far nearly 3 million have voted that he should run as a third party candidate.

 by: Katrinacrat
Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 11:59:47 AM CST

Okay, lets crank it up a little bit shall we. So at my personal blog, I have tried to take in some bloggers that are rare in every way. Among those bloggers, is the super blogger known as Clammyc. Anyone that has spent even the smallest amount of time at DKos knows who Clammyc is! Some of the others I have are not that known. Each have something that in some way separates them from others.

 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Monday the appointment of Nathan Ballard as his new director of communications.

Ballard replaces former Communications Director Peter Ragone who came under fire for using fake names to post on websites, and being less than truthful about it.

For the past several months we have been getting our new Southern netroots site http://bluesunbelt.com up and running. We are in need of front pagers who can contribute diaries on politics and issues of the Southern and Sunbelt states that are our demographic focus area.

We need front pagers who can submit diaries on:

 by: James Benjamin

I was on a conference call today with former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack who was intereviewed by Jonathan Singer of MyDD. One thing that stood out in the interview was Vilsack's stand against the Iraq War. Vilsack, who currently ranks in the top four in Iowa polls, appears to be clearly planning to compete for those Democratic voters who rank the Iraq war as one of their primary issues. The anti-war faction of the Democratic Party appears so far to be largely split between Sen. Barack Obama, Cong. Dennis Kucinich, and former Sen. Mike Gravel.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who is now an independent, said on Sunday that he is open to supporting the Democratic or Republican nominee or even an independent third party candidate for president in 2008.Lieberman was defeated in the Democratic primary in his reelection campaign and was successful in the general election as an independent. This is apparently his first statement since being Al Gore's running mate that he may support a Republican or third party candidate in 2008.

 Lieberman May Support GOP Or Independent Candidate For President In 2008