http://elaine-marshall.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/23/878610/-NC-Sen:-We-did-it!

Not only did she win the right to send Richard Burr to an early retirement, but she’s surging in the polls, the race is a virtual dead heat at this point, according to Rasmussen:

http://elaine-marshall.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/24/879005/-HUGE-SURGE:-Burr-44-Marshall-43-%5BNC-Sen%5D

Great news!!!

Due to one candidate dropping out of a race, and three candidates losing in their primary, the candidate pool is down to 29 candidates. We are so proud of the effort that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter gave against Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

The 29 currently in the pool are:
Alan Grayson (Florida 8th)
André Carson (Indiana 7th)
Barbara Boxer(California Senate)
Billy Kennedy(North Carolina 5th)
Carol Shea-Porter(New Hampshire 1st)
Elaine Marshall (North Carolina Senate)
Jack Conway (Kentucky Senate)
Jim McGovern(Massachusetts 3rd)
Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania Senate)
John Hall (New York 19th)
John Yarmuth (Kentucky 3rd)
Jonathan Tasini (New York 15th)
Justin Coussoule (Ohio 8th)
Keith Ellison(Minnesota 5th)
Kendrick Meek (Florida Senate)
Kirsten Gillibrand (New York Senate)
Lois Herr (Pennsylvania 16th)
Mac D’Alessandro (Massachusetts 9th)
Manan Trivedi (Pennsylvania 6th)
Paul Hodes (New Hampshire Senate)
Regina Thomas (Georgia 12th)
Rodney Glassman (Arizona Senate)
Roxanne Conlin (Iowa Senate)
Sheila Smoot (Alabama 7th)
Suzan DelBene (Washington 8th)
Tarryl Clark (Minnesota 6th)
Tom Hayhurst (Indiana 3rd)
Tom Perriello (Virginia 5th)
Tommy Sowers (Missouri 8th)

The two additions are both U.S House candidates:

1. David Gill-candidate in IL-15 running against GOP incumbent Tim Johnson.  His website is here

2. Jim Wilson- Oklahoma State Senator running against OK-02 Blue Dog incumbent Dan Boren.  ActBlue link.

From Bill Halter for Senate Flickr page

One of the most crucial tests of who we are as Democrats is occurring now in Arkansas, as incumbent Senator Blanche Lincoln(DINO-BP) is facing the election that will end her career. Insurgent candidate Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter is her primary and now run-off opponent, who is supported by netroots and by Labor both on a national level and on a local level. Lincoln is of course, the Blue Dog who killed the Employee Free Choice Act(EFCA), which would have helped exploited workers organize with the help of a secret ballot. In full disclosure, Peanut Butter PAC endorses Halter for Senator and has awarded him $250, and Peanut Butter PAC wants EFCA to become law.   We also believe that if Bill Halter becomes the nominee, this will move things in the right direction, as I will discuss below

Among Lincoln’s many corporate backers is Big Oil and the League of Conservation Voters rightfully is making sure that voters know that BP is counting on Lincoln to squash any accountability measures or measures to move it into receivership.  After all, Lincoln is #1 in Oil and Gas industry money to a Senator for 2010 according to OpenSecrets(h/t to FireDogLake for bringing this to my attention).   Let’s not forget that Lincoln also wanted to stop the EPA from regulating carbon as a pollutant as her own press release says.   Lincoln’s own issues page makes it plain her support for more offshore drilling madness (emphasis and added quotation marks on responsible mine below).

In 2008, Senator Lincoln was one of 10 bipartisan Senators who developed legislation on a comprehensive and job-creating energy policy. The proposal included a historic investment in research and development in an effort to transition new vehicles to non-petroleum based fuels by 2020. The plan would expand “responsible” measures to increase offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and remain committed to expanding renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal.

So it should be clear that if we want to make sure BP is nationalized and to make them pay through the nose for what they have done, and to help make sure that something like Deepwater Horizon from never happens again, we ust help elect Bill Halter to the U.S Senate.

Blanche Lincoln has fought against real Democrats on almost every meaningful measure to enact the Change that we elected Barack Obama to carry out.  We at Peanut Butter PAC believe the President to be a good man, but also limited by false friends in the Senate like Lieberman, Ben Nelson and Lincoln.   Lincoln helped kill the Public Option, something that caused Democracy For America(DFA) to call her a “healthcare villian” .   Lincoln was the lone vote in the Democratic caucus that killed EFCA in 2009, which groups are running pro-Lincoln ads because of. Lincoln is an obstacle to any climate change bill, and she only drafted a tough bill on derivatives because Halter challenged her.  Any real Democrat thusly must support Bill Halter, a very electable candidate.

Organizing for America(OFA)’s unfortunate support and GOTV for Lincoln proves that it is an astroturf organization which is controlled by the Democratic National Committee(DNC), which under Tim Kaine has been a disaster. The DNC’s record on Deeds, Corzine, Coakley aka Chokeley and Specter proves that Howard Dean knew how to back the right candidates and Kaine does not. OFA’s support for Lincoln is a black mark on that organization and no amount of spin from OFA loyalists will convince me otherwise. At least, we don’t have to pretend OFA is progressive or grassroots anymore.

Our system is of course a representative democracy, and n order for that to work, our representatives must actually follow our views and this is something that has become a problem for Democrats. Electing Bill Halter as the Democratic Nominee will have far-reaching effects. It puts all DINOs on notice that we, the base, are not going to stand for politicians that forgot why they got elected in the first place, and it will prove that you cannot serve the corporations and keep your job. This will help the future of our democracy and a Bill Halter victory is a victory for Democracy. Early voting has started in Arkansas for the run-off on June 8th. If you live in or close to Arkansas, and are available, you can knock on doors to GOTV for Halter. You can also from anywhere make phone calls for Halter, which yours truly will do this weekend when not manning a table for Peanut Butter PAC at the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. You can also contribute to his ActBlue page. You can also find Halter on our ActBlue page and contribute to him that way or even send us a working capital donation.

Elaine’s facing a primary runoff on 6/22 against Cal Cunningham for the Democratic noination – the winnier will against incumbent Republican Richard Burr. Marshall has an excellent shot at unseating the freshman Senator Burr, with a recent PPP poll showing her within the margin of error against Burr, trailing by 43% to 42%:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/poll-gop-sen-burr-barely-ahead-of-dem-opponents.php

The same poll shows her edging Cunningham in the runoff election as well.

Credit: Perrielloforcongress on flickr. Copyrighted 2008

2008 was a year of change for America and for Virginia.   Moderate Democrat Mark Warner was elected to the U.S Senate, and Tom Perriello pulled off a huge electoral upset by unseating turncoat Democrat turned Republican Virgil Goode.   It was a very close race, Perriello won in the final tally after a recount by little over 700 votes. Since his election, Perriello has voted consistently as a loyal Democrat, some of those votes were tough since his district, Virginia 5th is rated by Cook as a PVI R+5, meaning it leans Republican.  The district did go for McCain over Obama 51% to 48% in 2008.  Perriello has six Republicans running against him and an independent challenger that is a pure teabagger.  As I’ll go into below, Virginia teabaggers are at odds with the national Republican establishment over the establishment’s choice in the primary.   This could mean more GOP Fail a ala NY-23.

Perriello has an interesting background.  Before he was elected to Congress, he worked to bring peace to the West African nations of Sierra Leona and Liberia.  He also worked to build faith-based organizations that fight for social justice.   Since taking office, Pereillo voted yes to ARRA(the “stimulus” bill), yes to ACES (cap and trade), yes to Health Insurance Reform(and voted for the much better bill the first time around).  His vote for Stupak was one of the few times he got it way wrong.  Pereillo also introduced H.R 4626, the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, which would repeal the health insurance industry’s anti-trust exemption.  It passed the House by over 400 votes.  Since he does represent a district that went to McCain, he would have to battle to get re-elected.  However, Perriello staying in office proves that the 50 state strategy works.

The conservatives, motivated by spite, racism and “purity” (we are not sure this extends to their precious bodily fluids), have at least six challengers to Congressman Perriello.   I will discuss each of the Republicans in running what should be a competitve and interesting primary, and I’ll discuss them one by one.  The first that I will talk about is Laurence Verga., a “real estate investor” from Albemarle County. Verga has been endorsed by such “intellectual heavyweights” as Laura Ingraham and Samuel Wurzelbacher aka “(Not) Joe the (Non-)Plumber”. Verga obviously would be a Tea Party politician with his support for lifting a ban on uranium mining in Southwest Virgina, as well a few health care related gems, where I added bold for emphasis

While I support and have signed The Club for Growth’s “Repeal It” pledge, this couldn’t realistically happen until we have a Republican president and Congress, which at the earliest is 2013. And while I support the State’s Attorneys General’s constitutional challenge to the bill, this can also take years and has no guarantee of success. There is a better and more immediate response to the bill: Stop the Funding!

Laurence personally suffers from polycystic kidney disease, a genetically-linked condition where cysts attack healthy kidneys. He is fortunate that his wife is the same blood type, allowing her to give him a kidney. However, over 4,000 people die every year waiting for a transplant. Laurence hopes his candidacy inspires more individuals to be organ donors and inspires those with physical challenges to never back down and to follow their dreams.

Gee, it sure must be nice to be a “real estate investor” rich enough to pay for an organ transplant when the uninsured would just die and private insurance plans would deny treatment before 2014.   His pledge to forego the Congressional health insurance in favor of his private plan shows that he doesn’t realize how bad the health insurance companies treat the middle class.

The second of the Circus of FAIL is Michael McPadden,  a pilot in North Garden.  Among the gems I found on his Issues page, he’s a goldbug.

Sound money is gold and silver. If you want a sound economy then you must demand sound money. Without sound money? Well, you get the economy that we have right now. The Constitution is very explicit about money. The Federal Government may only coin money and set the value thereof. They may not print paper money.

Article one section eight and article 3 section one of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to establish the lower federal courts. I believe it is time for Congress to begin the process of abolishing certain lower courts with the purpose of clearing out the activist judges. They can then reestablish those courts with judges that will interpret the law and not redefine it. I believe we should start with the ninth circuit court in San Francisco and work our way up. It is time that “We the people” take back our country from out of touch men and women in black robes.

Proving that some are still “Drill Baby Drill” because we just don’t have enough ecological destruction, dagnabit.

We need to open up the Outer Continental Shelf for drilling.

And this one just takes the cake for FAIL

I will move in my first days in Congress to have the Health Care Bill, Cap and Trade, and the stimulus Bill repealed.

The third member of the Circus of FAIL is Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd.  Boyd apparently failed at science because he said at a debate:

Boyd said, “There is nothing to prove we have man-made global warming,”

He also failed civics too or is clueless about the law.

Boyd urged everyone to support Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli who intends to sue the federal government if the current reform bill passes.

“Let’s get behind Ken Cuccinelli and get this thing thrown out in the courts,” Boyd said.

The fourth member of the circus of FAIL is Fluvanna County biology teacher Feda Morton.   The teabag of FAIL on this candidate is very full. A teacher ought to know better than to plagiarize like she did, and during the Danville debate, she was quoted as saying

Morton, a teacher, said, “the Department of Education is one of the worst mistakes we ever made to public education.”

I wonder about what her students are learning about empiricism and the scientific method when she says things like

Morton says she believes global climate change is a “socialist plan to level the wealth” and “a pack of lies based on data that wasn’t substantiated.”

“These people are out and determined to destroy America, destroy capitalism and destroy jobs,” she said. “I don’t believe that global warming is a crisis. I don’t believe that global warming exists. And I don’t believe that carbon dioxide needs to be regulated as a pollutant.”

However, the crazy seems to be paying off for her, as she was ranked number one in a straw poll of Republican activists.

The fifth member of the circus of FAIL is Jim McKelvey.   As Blue Virginia reported, he likes to regurgitate lies on immigration.  He also evotes almost a whole page on auditing the Federal Reserve and cyptically refers to returning to “sound money”.  So this makes me wonder, is McKelvey another Rand Paul with some Austrian Economics nonsense tossed in?  He is increasinly also being trotted out as the alternative for the Tea Party rather than the Republican Establishment candidate.  Also he could provide some comedy if he is the nominee as in this quote from a debate:

McKelvey, referring to himself in the third person, pledged to limit himself to four years if elected.

“If Jim McKelvey can’t get it done in four years, he doesn’t deserve to be there,” McKelvey said, adding that power corrupts.

He also as recently as March said that he might run as an independent.

He is threatening to run as an independent. In his own words, “I’m not looking to be electable.” On the possibility of splitting the conservative vote and keeping Perriello in Congress, “I stand on my principles. I do this because I am scared for the future of the country.”

The sixth and final member of the GOP circus of FAIL is State Senator Robert Hurt, who is Eric Cantor’s preferred candidate, but described by some teabaggers on various website as a RINO.   The RINO of course is nonexistent, as the Republican Party purged out ll the centrists from their party.   The Tea Partiers are upset over Hurt’s vote for a tax increase in 2004. Lookingat his voting record, he is a typical Republican.  This year, he voted against insurance coverage for children with autism. I am often struck at how “pro-life” people can deny medical treatment to young children.

The Republican Primary is on June 8th, and Virginia’s “sore loser law” makes it so that any Republican wanting to go third party would have to file as an independnt before the polls close on June 8th.  However, a Tea Partier named Jeffrey Clark has said that he will run as an independent if Hurt wins. Whatever the results of the Republican Primary, voters in Virginia 5th have a clear choice:  they can stay with the guy who will create jobs and expand medical treatment to millions or they can go with “drill, deny children and deregulation” that we endured for eight years under Bush and his cronies.

The 27 that remain in our candidate pool are:

Alan Grayson (Florida 8th)
André Carson (Indiana 7th)
Barbara Boxer(California Senate)
Bill Halter (Arkansas Senate)
Billy Kennedy(North Carolina 5th)
Carol Shea-Porter(New Hampshire 1st)
Craig Pridemore(Washington 3rd)
Elaine Marshall (North Carolina Senate)
Jim McGovern(Massachusetts 3rd)
Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania Senate)
John Hall (New York 19th)
John Yarmuth (Kentucky 3rd)
Justin Coussoule (Ohio 8th)
Keith Ellison(Minnesota 5th)
Kendrick Meek (Florida Senate)
Kirsten Gillibrand (New York Senate)
Lois Herr (Pennsylvania 16th)
Mac D’Alessandro (Massachusetts 9th)
Marcy Winograd (California 36th)
Paul Hodes (New Hampshire Senate)
Regina Thomas (Georgia 12th)
Rodney Glassman (Arizona Senate)
Roxanne Conlin (Iowa Senate)
Sheila Smoot (Alabama 7th)
Tarryl Clark (Minnesota 6th)
Tom Perriello (Virginia 5th)
Tommy Sowers (Missouri 8th)

These are our newest inclusions:

U.S House Candidates:

1. Jonathan Tasini,-NY-15 candidate in a primary against incumbent Charlie Rangel.  His campaign site here

2. Manan Trivedi-PA-06 primary winner running against GOP incumbent Jim Gerlach.  His page here

3, Suzan DelBene- WA-08 challenger to GOP incumbent Dave Reichert.  Her page here

4. Tom Hayhurst-IN-03 special election candidate for a now open seat, and Democratic nominee for November.  His page here.

U.S Senate candidates

1. Jack Conway- KY-Sen Democratic Nominee running against wingnut Rand Paul.  A Must win for Dems. His campaign site here.

2. Vic Rawl. SC-Sen challenger to GOP extremist Jim DeMint.  His campaign site here.

Small Online Contributions Add Up to Huge Fund-Raising Edge for Obama

~ NYTimes Feb 20, 2008

In 2008 Americans fought and beat Corporate Lobbyist sponsored politicians like John McCain (Drill,baby,drill & Bomb,bomb,Iran) and elected Barack Obama to be the President of the United States.

Just imagine if we could harness small contributions like this all the time to elect politicians who will stand up for people and against the special interests!

Well, the Corporatists can imagine that, and it scares them out of their minds! That is why, with the help of the recent Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allows Corporations to flood the American election process with millions and millions of Corporate money to fund Republican politicians and Corporate Democrats.

And their goal is to make sure that no one like Barack Obama ever wins a major election again, but you CAN fight back.

How to, below the fold

Regardless of what the results of yesterday’s primaries in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Oregon turnout, it should be considered a victory over Corporatist politicians like Blanche Lincoln, Arlen Specter and others. These politicians all had their party’s backing, all had the blessing of powerful special interests, and all may suffer defeat at the hands of populist driven, more progressive challengers.

But it still may not be enough.

Win or lose, this is a victory, but it may not be enough. Just imagine what we can with more organization!

Of course, the Corporatist political operations like the Republican party and the ConservaDem/BlueDog caucuses of the Democratic party know exactly how powerful populist driven, anti-corporatist, small donation driven activism can be, and that is why they have begun to use the Citizens United ruling to drown out populist organizing with unlimited corporate funding.

Witness the Dark Lord at work, Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove. In just 2 months after the Citizens United ruling, Rove has staged a Corporate $ fueled coup against RNC Chairman Micheal Steele, as detailed in the recent Rolling Stones article titled Rove Rides Again Bush’s former strategist is secretly seizing control of the GOP – and amassing $135 million to destroy the Democrats

Rove could only sit by and watch as the fearsome big-money machine he built over the course of a decade – his political Death Star – was blasted out of orbit by an insurgent Obama campaign powered by hundreds of millions in small-dollar donations.

This is a tale of how the empire strikes back.

~snip~

(G)iven the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, there is little to prevent Rove from running the whole show. Political parties are barred from coordinating specific ads with “independent” groups – but that leaves plenty of wiggle room for other forms of strategizing. And even if Rove and Co. were to cross the line, there would likely be no consequences: The Federal Election Commission, which has sole enforcement responsibility, is gridlocked by its three GOP-appointed commissioners, who consistently vote to stymie any oversight. “The existing FEC is not going to enforce the laws,” says Fred Wertheimer, the founder of Democracy 21, an advocate of campaign-finance reform.

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Through his corporate funded groups American Crossroads and the American Action Network, Karl Rove has invented the anti-peanutbutterpac, monolithic, corporate fueled groups designed to fund corporatist politicians who will eagerly do the special interests bidding.

Their plan is simple, it is to overwhelm the small dollar donations that elected Barack Obama and other candidates who were not wholly owned by the special interests. Their goal is even more simple, and it is to ensure that no one like Obama ever wins an election over Corporatists who are only loyal to the special interests.

So, how do we fight back?

The political reality is stark, but here it is. Money talks, and bullshit walks. If Progressives and the opponents of Corporatist politics wish to have a say in the new post Citizens United $=speech world of politics, then we MUST put our money where are mouths are!

But the reality is that Progressive and anti-corporatist voters will never, ever have the money as individuals that the Special Interests can muster, and that is why we have to organize and work together.

This is where organizations like PeanutButterPAC come in.

With 1000 members donating only $5 a week, we can donate the maximum PAC donation of $5,000 each week to a progressive incumbent like Alan Grayson or a challenger to a corporatist Democrat like Marcy Winograd.

With 2000 members donating only $5 a week, we can double that!

With 10,000 members donating only $5 a week, we can run ads in swing states exposing Corporate shills in both parties, we can set up state based PAC’s to shift state legislatures towards protecting and helping people and NOT corporate interests, we can do a LOT with 10,000 members donating each week to PeanutButterPAC! Only 10,000 contributing members would scare the HELL out of Corporate shills in both parties!

With 100,000 members, we can be a force to be reckoned with, and our advocacy would be a multi million dollar force.

With 1 Million members, the sky is the limit, and we can buy the Senate back from the banks!

In a post Citizens United world, money talks and bullshit walks. The banks OWN the Senate. This is a fact. The only way working class Americans can take their representative democracy back from the Corporations and the Super rich is by buying it back. This is a game we are forced to play. If we do not organize and try to buy our representative democracy back from the super rich, you WILL have another Karl Rove ran corporatist machine back in power, sooner than you think. Now is the time to choose, will you kneel to the special interests and give up all hope, or will you stand and FIGHT!

I know what I choose, and I hope you will fight with me.

Cheers

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The 22 that remain in our candidate pool are:

Alan Grayson (Florida 8th)
André Carson (Indiana 7th)
Barbara Boxer(California Senate)
Bill Halter (Arkansas Senate)
Billy Kennedy(North Carolina 5th)
Carol Shea-Porter(New Hampshire 1st)
Craig Pridemore(Washington 3rd)
Jim McGovern(Massachusetts 3rd)
Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania Senate)
John Hall (New York 19th)
John Yarmuth (Kentucky 3rd)
Justin Coussoule (Ohio 8th)
Keith Ellison(Minnesota 5th)
Kirsten Gillibrand (New York Senate)
Lois Herr (Pennsylvania 16th)
Marcy Winograd (California 36th)
Paul Hodes (New Hampshire Senate)
Rodney Glassman (Arizona Senate)
Roxanne Conlin (Iowa Senate)
Ryan Bucchianeri (Pennsylvania 12th)
Tarryl Clark (Minnesota 6th)
Tom Perriello (Virginia 5th)

Here are the newest inclusions(Sheila Smoot was already part of the voting but I am including her here anyway)

U.S House Candidates:

1. Mac D’Alessandro-  Ma-09 Progressive challenger to Blue Dog incumbent Stephen Lynch. His Facebook page

2. Regina Thomas-Georgia State Senator  who is running against GA-12 Blue Dog John Barrow.  Her campaign site

3. Sheila Smoot-Running for the open seat in AL-07.  Her Campaign page

4. Tommy Sowers.  MO-08 candidate running against Republican incumbent Jo Ann Emerson.  This is also Rush Limbaugh’s Congressional District.  His campaign site

U.S Senate Candidates:

1.  Elaine Marshall.  NC-Sen candidate and primary winner(she faces a runoff).  She is the more progressive candidate and she has a real chance against Republican incumbent Richard Burr.  Her campaign site

2. Kendrick Meek.  FL-17 incumbent and FL-Sen candidate.  His campaign page

Our next award will be at the end of May. For this reason, we are going to exclude candidates with a June primary from consideration – we want our money to go to candidates who will have a significant chance to use it to good effect. This is going to become one of the by-laws of our organization when we list out the candidate selection process more formally.

Towards that end, we are going to conduct another vote immediately, so that we don’t miss out on some awesome June primaries. Read on for our remaining candidate list…

In the Senate:

Barbara Boxer(California Senate) primary date: 6/8
Paul Hodes (New Hampshire Senate) primary date: 9/14
Rodney Glassman (Arizona Senate) primary date: 8/24
Roxanne Conlin (Iowa Senate) primary date: 6/8
Kirsten Gillibrand (New York Senate) primary date: 9/14

And in the House:

Alan Grayson (Florida 8th) primary date: 8/24
Carol Shea-Porter(New Hampshire 1st) primary date: 9/14
Craig Pridemore (Washington 3rd) primary date: 8/17
Jim McGovern (Massachusetts 3rd) primary date: 9/14
Mac D’Allesandro (Massachusetts 9th) primary date: 9/14
John Hall(New York 19th) primary date: 9/14
Keith Ellison (Minnesota 5th) primary date: 8/10
Marcy Winograd (California 36th) primary date: 6/8
Sheila Smoot (Alabama 7th) primary date: 6/1
Tarryl Clark (Minnesota 6th) primary date: 8/10
Tom Perriello (Virginia 5th) primary date: 6/8

We will likely have an update later today with a few additions to that list – I’ve taken the leiberty of adding one that I was certain about, Mac D’Allesandro is primarying Steven Lynch in MA-09 for Lynch’s “no” vote on HCR. He’s a strong candidate with the full backing of the SEIU – pistolSO will have more info on Lynch and the other new additions in another diary sometime today.

Emails will go out tomorrow asking our paying members to whittle the list down to four deserving candidates, then another email blast will pick the winner from that subset. If you haven’t joined up, please do, or make a working capital donation on our home page. We don’t ask for a lot of money, it’s as little as $10 per month, so the more members we have, the more clout we’ll wield. By design, over 80% of the money collected goes to candidates – please help support us today!

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