Blogging While Politicking

June 13, 2006 7:13 AM

Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland, has one. Ray Cox, MN State Representative, has one. Anyone know of other good blogs written by politicians?

Others I've found include John Edwards' blog (well, sort of a blog -- it's only got three postings so far and he calls it a "diary") and the blog of Sandra Gidley, Liberal Democrat MP.

I'm mostly interested in blogs written by US and UK politicians. For purposes of this post I'm defining "politician" as someone currently holding elected office or expected to soon be running for office (Edwards for Prez in '08, for example).

posted by hazelshade to law & government (6 comments total)

Boris Johnson, MP for Henley on Thames.
posted by afx237vi at 7:17 AM on June 13, 2006

Also, Tom Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East is a fairly well-known British blogger. I believe he was one of the early adopters.
posted by afx237vi at 7:20 AM on June 13, 2006

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the Prime Minister of Hungary, is a blogger of some note. Not US or UK, but he is the Prime Minister and all.
posted by milquetoast at 8:11 AM on June 13, 2006

David Miliband, the Secretary of State for the Environment in the UK, has a blog (he started it when previously Minister for Communities and Local Government).

David Miliband (his brother Ed is also a minister) is tipped for the top post-Gordon Brown, and he's certainly very bright (I very briefly worked with him way back when).
posted by athenian at 8:51 AM on June 13, 2006

Eric Fingerhut (D, OH senate district 25) has an official blog and also seems to actively contribute on another politically oriented blog, the Center for Innovation and Growth blog. The local blogosphere supports an active forum where politicians and other interesting community members field questions from area bloggers. Fingerhut participated (listen) and according to the description he discusses his blog. I haven't listened to it so I can't promise that he says anything interesting.
posted by stuart_s at 11:04 AM on June 13, 2006

Andrew Bartlett, Democrat Senator from QLD, has one.
posted by wilful at 4:34 PM on June 13, 2006