Dateline Saturday March 22, 2008:

Digital party candidate Chuck Tomasi formally made a request to Dancing With Elephants‘ podcast personality Tonya to be his campaign manager on the show’s listener feedback episode 085. Tonya has not given a response yet, only stating that she is considering the position and that health and family come first.

Tonya’s husband/co-host and podcast producer Greg professes to be a card carrying member of the Analog party and a Steppe supporter. He is not opposed to his wife supporting “the other side”.

Continue checking this sight and RSS feed as news on the announcement develops.

The first of many campaign ads to come. Vote smart, vote Digital, vote Tomasi.

Yesterday in a surprise announcement, Digital Party Candidate, Chuck Tomasi announced that he was not considering the VP position to his Presidential rival, Kreg Steppe.

“Why is the person in second place asking the person in first place to be their Vice President?” was Tomasi’s response to a press conference late last night.

An informal poll shows 47% of the people would like a Steppe-Tomasi ticket, 35% said they support the Tomasi-Steppe ticket, and 18% said they prefer neither.

We’ve commissioned Krishna from PC Weenies to draw up a political cartoon for our Podcast Presidential race, but we need YOUR help coming up with the words. The winner will get a signed copy. Send your submissions to contest at podpresident dot com and put “Toon” in the subject, by midnight, March 14, 2008.

Dateline: Monday, March 3rd 2008; Turin, Idaho

Since announcing his candidacy for PodPresident as a representative of the Grand Analog Party (GAP), Kreg Steppe made his first campaign stop at Steve Rogers Elementary to read to a group of 1st graders. Steppe participated in snack time by working the snack line, serving milk and cookies to the students. Afterwards he fielded questions from the group of eager children.

Shiera Sanders, a seven year old student at the school asked, “What do you and the Analog Party stand for?”. Steppe responded by explaining that The Grand Analog Party, founded in 1927, has had a log tradition of standing up for content creators rights and today that is even more relevant. As podcasters and listeners you should be concerned about your rights to produce and distribute material, and your right to be BIG MEDIA FREE! This seemed a popular topic as many questions seemed pointed toward big media’s heavy handed tactics to control all media outlets.

After the question and answer session, Steppe took time to read two books the students had preselected which included “Green Eggs & Ham” written by Dr. Seuss, and a three chapter selection from Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury.