Submitted by djuggler on Tue, 2009/12/01 - 11:47am
Air America is sending one of America's progressive bloggers on a cruise to meet the Air America hosts. Our very own Tennessee blogger Aunt B (Betsy Phillips) of Tiny Cat Pants is in the running! She is currently tied in position 13 with Jamie Sanderson, The Politics of Jamie Sanderson; Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos; Matthew Filipowicz, Huffington Post, Headzup; John Amato, Crooks and Liars; and Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake. She needs to be in one of the top 5 positions in the next 3 days! To vote, simply go to the nomination form page and nominate Aunt B or Betsy "Aunt B" Phillips of http://tinycatpants.wordpress.com. We can get her on that cruise. Please vote for Aunt B and spread the word.
Thank you!
-Doug McCaughan
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Links updated. I was wrong
Links updated. I was wrong about simply including a comment...you need to enter Betsy "Aunt B" Phillips and tinycatpants.wordpress.com on the nomination form http://airamerica.com/news/11-16-2009/win-cruise-air-america/ Links in the post have been updated.
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