Thanks again, friends. I am so very grateful for your support after all these years. I can hardly believe it, to tell you the truth. It’s a Christmas miracle every year. It means we can keep going over the next year as we confront whatever this weird political zeitgeist is about to bring us.
I wanted to take a moment today to say thank you to my good friend Tom Sullivan. He has been holding down the morning shift for many years here at Hullabaloo and I thank my lucky stars every day that I asked him to contribute here all those years ago.
I had liked him the minute I met him and his lovely wife Sarah at a Netroots confab back in the day and I especially liked his writing and commentary. He’s a natural blogger, someone who understands the form (and yes, there IS a specific form) and executes it perfectly. I couldn’t ask for anything more in a co-blogger.
But Tom is also doing God’s work down in North Carolina which has become a petri dish for right wing electoral shenanigans. He’s been working in Democratic politics in Asheville for years and this cycle helped elevate the state Democratic Party’s rising star Anderson Clayton, who led the party to win all the top jobs in the executive branch this year. He served as a Dem delegate to the DNC and was working diligently to make sure they get out the vote when Hurricane Helaine hit his hometown.
Tom was right in the middle of that horror, no power, no water for weeks and yet was out there helping to dispel disinformation on social media and ensure that the Democrats were able to get out the vote despite the crisis. For years, Tom has been distributing his “For The Win” pamphlet to Democrats all over the country with some novel ideas to help get out the vote.
All the while, unless there’s a massive hurricane, Tom writes interesting and useful posts every morning seven days a week here on Hullabaloo. It truly was my lucky day when he said yes.
I’m happy to say that he’s going to be here through the tough times ahead and between the two of us we’ll try to stay on top of the unfolding horrors. It’s going to be a very bumpy flight and I wouldn’t want anyone but Tom to be my wingman.
If you would like to help keep this going, I would be most grateful.
cheers,
digby
And Happy Hollandaise!|