Complete audio of the entire BYU Alternative Commencement is here. The most sobering commentary of last night was from the students whose parents had chastened, berated, and even outright abandoned them over their involvement in this event. For a community that prides itself on family values, I was ashamed of what these young men and women have had to go ...More »
Here is a recording of the RadioWest program that I participated on this morning. I was asked in email to post links to some of the things I talked about. Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee Membership. Here are the classes that XMission provides at the Salt Lake City library on filtering and tools we make available to parents. Here is how ...More »
Yet another attempt from the "small-government", "free-market" Utah legislature to regulate the Internet with SB-236. Ignoring the advice of their own legal council over the ambition of Unspam's CEO, Mathew Prince, whose past half-baked "Child Email Registry" has also cost Utahns' tax dollars to defend, the "E-Trademark Registry" passed unanimously. This attempt to ban competitive forms of keyword advertising ...More »
This morning I fell through the looking-glass when I heard Senator Hatch being interviewed on KCPW. It is a strange world, where you can accuse the other side of partisanship and obstructionism while claiming you have never done it yourself. Lara Jones, the interviewer, asked Senator Hatch if he was going to debate his opponent. I was looking forward ...More »
The audio for the BBC interview from last Monday is available here. My good friend Ellie Pirelli (pictured in this article) from Washington County apparently made quite a splash at the Yearly Kos blogger conference. I saw Ellie before she left and sent her off with some campaign material and then heard from others about the good work she did ...More »
The Utah Democratic Convention on May 13th was an exhilarating experience. It was humbling to receive such a warm response to my nomination speech and listen to so many people expressing their support. For those of you who were unable to attend the convention, I have put up audio of the nominations and my speech here. In ...More »
The KCPW interview with Blair Feulner went well this morning. You can listen to the recording here. Kos of DailyKos did a nice summary here. Finally, the campaign hit Metafilter this morning. A nice way to kick off December!
Last night, I was honored to be hosted at a gathering of moderates and conservatives by James and Jenica Humphreys. A Democratic candidate meeting with Republican-minded voters is something that KSL Radio considers newsworthy in Utah. In this radio piece, the Hatch campaign responded by saying, "Ashdown is just custom tailoring his message to his audience instead of ...More »
I was invited to speak at the press conference for the newly formed Utah Democratic Veterans' Caucus. Read the text of my speech in the press release or simply listen to the actual audio of my speech.
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with a group of BYU Democrats. I recorded the meeting with the intention of placing it online. Suffice to say, don't buy the iRiver T30 if you're looking for an MP3 voice recorder. I returned it the next day after I managed to extract the recording with much pain through Microsoft's ...More »
