Weekend Links: 7/7-7/8

There's only going to be one link this weekend (www.paypal.com) because there's a special cause all friends and members of the Florida Netroots should take part in.

Ken Quinnell, founder of the Florida Progressive Coalition has been invited to speak at YearlyKos (a big netroots hoopla), but doesn't have the dough to make it. Ken is a progressive like all of us, and like most of us, isn't exactly being paid a king's ransom for his efforts.

You can send Ken the funds he needs to go by doing the following:

To help, just go to PayPal, log in, go to your "account", click the "Send Money" tab at the top, and enter "kq_n_mq@yahoo.com" in the "To:" box - ANY amount will be very much appreciated.

I also want to tell you how important Ken has been to this relatively new and growing thing known as the Netroots.

Back in 2005, many of us bloggers were out there in cyberspace, doing our own little thing. I myself had just discovered blogging and slowly found my way down to the state level, where I started blogging at FLA Politics and started this blog.

One day I received an email from Ken about this crazy idea he had about getting all the liberal bloggers together to do something bigger and better. I was initially skeptical (through my DEC experiences) - I knew what a group of Democrats could do (LOL). But the first meeting I had with Ken and a few others in Gainesville was amazing. Meeting bloggers and putting faces to user names was a hell of a lot of fun! And oh the plans we made!

That was the founding of the Florida Progressive Coalition. Today, FPC is playing a leading role in organizing online progressives (collectively "The Florida Netroots") in a positive and meaningful way.

Ken has been at the center of it all. He came up with the idea for FPC, got us together, and was skilled enough to manage our gargantuan egos to do something constructive. If there's one person who deserves to represent us at YearlyKos (for those of us poor activists who also won't be able to attend) - its Ken Quinnell. Please dig deep and send this netroots hero to YearlyKos:

To help, just go to PayPal, log in, go to your "account", click the "Send Money" tab at the top, and enter "kq_n_mq@yahoo.com" in the "To:" box - ANY amount will be very much appreciated.

Let's do it.