Red State Eclectic Featured On "The Hill"

ETA: (Welcome, readers from The Other McCain! And a HUGE thanks to that blog for the mention!)

Sigh. Right after blogging about manners, here I am, confounded about what the proper etiquette here is.  Since our hostess, Laura, is deeply immersed in the project, should I let her write this article? Or, should I just forge ahead?

Now I could make this next paragraph all about me, and how awkward I might feel if I was forced to write about one of my own accomplishments. I could mention that I might therefore conclude that perhaps Laura might even be thankful that I wrote this, so that she wouldn't have to.

But the reality is that Laura's so busy that if she is grateful that I wrote this, it will only be because I saved her from having to do it.  I'll take that as the answer to my original question, and forge ahead.

State Bankruptcy and a Heartland Homegrown Solution: NB 515

Last fall, the Nebraska Campaign for Liberty distributed copies of Tom Woods’s book Nullification to 44 of the 49 members of the Legislature. They followed up with discussion with some other senators about the kind of things they’d like to see done and provided some “model legislation” — courtesy of the Tenth Amendment Center.

“We didn’t have great expectations,” said Laura Ebke of Red State Eclectic. “We thought that perhaps we’d get a little bit of notice, establish ourselves as some sort of states’-rights/limited-government presence, and maybe scope out which senators we might be able to work with on some issues.”

This is pretty cool! Last year Eric was quoted by the Wall St Journal, and this year Laura is being quoted in The Hill.    (But so far I'm the only one here to get the Full Metal Reach-Around Award from Stacy McCain!)

Congratulations Laura, and thanks for all your hard work.

 

Comments

[Laura]

The truth-be-told, we have our friend Bernie Quigley to thank for this. I wrote the original piece about LB 515 a few days ago, and he picked up on it, and mentioned that he'd try to use that in his next article. It appeared, under his byline, on his blog (QUIGLEY in our blogroll), the Hill's Pundits Blog, and on the Tenth Amendment Center's blog today. I DID make note of it on the Campaign for Liberty website, and in a newsletter to the NEC4L troops today, but didn't even think of doing anything more here. So, in my best "aw, shucks" Midwestern, dirt clicking style, thank you, Angela for posting this--it saved me from having to look too self serving by doing it myself :) !

[AngelaTC]

Well then congrats to Bernie too! This was showing up as the most-read article for the day when I was over there earlier.

[Laura]

It's dropped to third now (I guess that's what that means), but that's still pretty cool.