CINDY OLIVAS TRIGG TO ANNOUNCE CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS

Democrat and Douglas County School Board President Cindy Olivas Trigg will be announcing her campaign for U.S. Congress on Friday, April 24 at 7pm at the Agave Restaurant in Reno.  All members of the press are invited to attend.

CINDY OLIVAS TRIGG CAMPAIGN KICKOFF
Friday, April 24
7pm
The Agave Restaurant
1575 Vassar Street
Reno NV 89502

The campaign kickoff begins at 7pm with a meet and greet, followed by Cindy’s official announcement at 8pm. Cindy Olivas Trigg will be announcing her candidacy for U.S. Congress in Nevada’s 2nd District at 8pm.  Press is encouraged to arrive at 7:45pm.

For questions, or exclusive interview requests, please contact Evan Moody at 202.230.6857 or misterevanmoody@gmail.com.

There is this fellow that lives in Pahrump that sort of fascinates me for some reason. His name is Dan Schinhofen.

Photo: Dan Schinhofen and his dog, Strider

Why my interest in Dan. Well, because he is interesting. He’s a Republican. I’m a Democrat. He is conservative. I’m progressive (that is a word meaning liberal, for those of you who are hung up with labels). Dan and I hold opposite political views. He even, gasp, criticizes Barack Obama. I, on the other hand, find no problem in believing Obama walks on water. He is the messiah.

But Dan and I do have some common interests. He likes to write. So do I. He’s opinionated. So am I. He likes to express his opinions. So do I.

He writes a weekly column in the Pahrump Mirror. So do I.

Today I learned that Dan has written a book. It is called The Ramblings of a Madman Anthology. He wrote the book under the pen name of Dylan Roberts. I like that—a man with a pen name. Shows some literary class.

It will be published by a Pahrump publisher called Robert’s Inadvertent Publishing. I like that name for a publisher. Click the link and find out some more about the publisher, and Dan.

The Ramblings of a Madman Anthology will be an unlimited issue and will include many never before published columns and a few unedited. This Anthology will include many different columns as Dan or Dylan never seems to write about just one topic. They will range from “Political, “Philosophical” and some “Just for Fun”. The cost of this book is $15 Plus Postage. Handling is FREE!

I have another motive in writing all this about Dan, er Dylan. By plugging his book I’m hoping he will give me an autographed copy for free. I’m too cheap to pay money for it.

Today I more or less challenged Dan to initiate a blog. We need another blogger in Pahrump, especially a conservative Republican blogger. I told Dan he and I could become the “dueling bloggers” of Pahrump, or all of Nye County for that matter.

We can each try to turn the other into a sort of punching bag as we argue our different political views in those dueling blogs. I hope, if he accepts the challenge, that he names his blog “Ramblings of a Madman.” He can even run an ad on his blog advertising the sale of his book.

I wish Dan the best of luck with his book and the publishing venture. Pahrump needs some cultural literary resource.

So, what do you say Dan? Shall we do it?

Some time ago I started monkeying around with Twitter. Looked like a fun way of quickly communicating with others, such as my children and grandchildren. It is quicker than e-mail. And it’s free!

Twitter came into being in 2006.

Rick Sanchez uses Twitter on CNN, David Gregory of Meet the Press, David Schuster of MSNBC and other media types use Twitter to communicate with their viewers.

Bloggers also use it. Myrna the Minx of Reno and Its Discontents is a frequent Twitterer.

Celebrities also Twitter. Fans of Oprah will be happy to learn she tweets. [News Sky]

Genealogists use it too. Protesters use it. NASA is using it. Even politicians have discovered and are using it. [AFP] Governor Jim Gibbons, an avid text messenger, apparently doesn’t send Tweets.

You can even send and receive tweets from Senators and Congress persons. Don’t believe me? Then check out Tweet Congress. It’s heading states:

We the Tweeple of the United States, in order to form a more perfect government, establish communication, and promote transparency do hereby Tweet the Congress of the United States of America.

Senator John Ensign tweets with 3626 people following his tweets. Sadly Senator Harry Reid doesn’t tweet—yet. Dean Heller does. Dina Titus doesn’t. Nor Barbara Buckley. Neither does Shelley Berkley. Nancy Pelosi does. Any of you that want your favorite Senator or Congress person to begin Twittering can tell them on the TweetCongress site. So, if you want to register your support or lack thereof of any pending legislation can do so via Twitter (if your representative tweets.)

President Barack Obama twitters. [Twitter] Still uses a Blackberry too.

More Republicans than Democrats use Twitter.

Even small and large businesses are using Twitter, advertising their services and wares and even research things about their customers. Got something you want to sell, like in a yard sale. Advertise it on Twitter.

Twitter is global. A London bakery has started using the Internet messaging system Twitter to inform customers when the latest batches of bread hit the shelves. [AFP]

Today I thought I might dig into this Twitter phenomenon a bit deeper. You learn all sorts of stuff doing that.

The picture on the left shows the two guys who founded Twitter. Evan Williams, left, and Biz Stone, co-founders of Twitter, in one of their nature inspired meeting room at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, California says the New York Times.

Zip over to the New York Times link and read about all sorts of innovative uses to which Twitter is being put.

Twitter is now the third-largest online social network, behind Facebook and MySpace, according to Compete, a Web analytics company.

Philanthropy benefits from Twitter:

They gathered at beach resorts in Dubai, pubs in London, and a noisy cafe in Beijing. Here in New York, they flocked to a popular West Side bar. By the time the sun set on the first annual Twestival, some 10,000 attendees in 200 cities across the globe had donated more than a quarter of million dollars to clean-water efforts in Africa and India. [Christian Science Monitor]

I can predict that political candidates will be using Twitter for fund raising and promoting their election. Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, announced he was running for Governor of California on Twitter. [Wall Street Journal]

Those of you who are on Facebook can twitter from it.

Now that Nye County Democrats have a new Central Committee maybe they will grab onto this Twitter tool and use it to help build up the county’s party. Just think, they can link their tweets to their website and communicate with all the Democrat tweeters in Nye County.

So can the Pahrump Valley Meetup.

My friend, Frank Hutchens, tells me he can find no sensible use of Twitter, finding it a useless waste of time. Perhaps, Frank, all this might cause you to take a second look.

Want to find out who is gossiping about whom or what. Then use TweetBeep. With TweetBeep you can keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! Like Google Alerts, only for Twitter.

Some enterprising people have found employment from Twitter. You can now obtain coffee cups, T-shirts, mouse pads, and handbags with a mosaic of all your followers on Twitter. Helps reduce the unemployment rolls.

There are some risks with Twitter, however. Twouble comes if one twitters his life away.

Well, I hope this gives some of you would be Tweeters some ideas. If so, send me a tweet and let me know. I’d love to hear from you! Go here.