{"id":1275,"date":"2006-12-05T03:14:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-12-05T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T03:22:18","slug":"on_doing_well_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"On Doing Well By Doing Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never played golf, but when my brother tries to explain what’s so good about it, he always comes back to the feeling he gets when he hits the ball well, and “it’s just right”.<\/p>\n

I got that feeling today when I looked at this graphic<\/a> attached to this NY Times oped<\/a>.I took some serious grief when I did my first Examiner piece when I said<\/a><\/p>\n

But to be honest, even if the public doesn’t fall in behind the leadership, and the party loses every election, there will be great consulting gigs and staff jobs. And there’s a part of me that believes that’s the real issue.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But let’s go to the Times…here’s a tabular reproduction of the key information…<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Blogger<\/td>\nBlog<\/td>\nCandidates<\/td>\nPay<\/td>\n

<\/b><\/tr>\n

Jerome Armstrong<\/td>\nMyDD, Kos<\/td>\nSherod Brown, Mark Warner<\/td>\n$180,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Shields<\/td>\nMyDD, Kos, Blue Jersey<\/td>\nRobert Menendez<\/td>\n$2,562\/mo to $2,905\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tim Tagaris<\/td>\n Grow Ohio, Kos, MyDD<\/td>\nSherrod Brown, Ned Lamont<\/td>\n$38,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abraham Chernilla<\/td>\nRaising Kaine<\/td>\nJames Webb<\/td>\n$7,700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Daou<\/td>\nDaou Report, HuffPo<\/td>\nHillary Clinton<\/td>\n$5,000\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aldon Hynes<\/td>\nOrient Lodge<\/td>\nNed Lamont<\/td>\n$4,100\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jesse Taylor<\/td>\nPandagon<\/td>\nTed Strickland<\/td>\n$2,050\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Julie Fanselow<\/td>\nRed State Rebels, Kos<\/td>\nLarry Grant, James Brady<\/td>\n$1,300\/mo from Grant + unknown from Brady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aaron Silverstein<\/td>\nHeading Left<\/td>\nBill Winter<\/td>\n$850\/mo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David Sirota<\/td>\n SirotaBlog, HuffPo<\/td>\nNed Lamont<\/td>\nunknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patrick Hynes<\/td>\nAnkle Biting Pundit<\/td>\nJohn McCain<\/td>\n$31,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Henke<\/td>\nQandO<\/td>\nGeorge Allen<\/td>\n$2,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The MyDD folks did well for themselves, didn’t they?<\/p>\n

And yes, I do have that “it’s just right” feeling.<\/p>\n

For further reading on this, take a look at an old post of mine about astroturfing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And for the record, before ad income, hosting and support for Winds costs us about $180\/month. We make about $80\/month on ads (pathetic, yes, but I haven’t had time to do better), so I’m currently shelling out about $100\/month to keep this place going. I make $150\/each for the Examiner pieces, so writing for the Examiner has been paying to keep this place open.<\/p>\n

Just for the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MyDD bloggers made over $200,000 in the last campaign cycle working for candidates they were supporting in the blogs. They weren’t alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}