2008 Netroots Awards

Below are the winners of the Second Annual Netroots Awards, sponsored by the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition. In this event there truly are no losers. All of the nominees were deserving and this is not simply a matter of there being only one good candidate in each category, but a matter of having to choose one candidate in each category. You really should be regularly reading (or working with) all the nominees.

Voting was incredibly tight in several categories, with more than 250 votes cast in the final round, some categories came down to only 1, 2 or three vote margins. That’s a sign of all the great work you people are doing out there — it was often a difficult decision to determine who was “best” in a particular category.

For those who weren’t at the Netroots Conference (more on that later), we do have beautiful hand-carved statue made out of the flesh of the great California Redwood trees for you… just kidding. We have a pretty certificate, suitable for framing. Without any further ado, the winners…

Award	Winner	Other Finalists	Others Receiving Votes
	Ranger Against War	Politics1, Bark Bark Woof Woof	Incertus, Discourse.net, tiny little dots, The Spencerian, RockRichard’s Diary, Pensito Review
	Florida Progressive Coalition	Florida Netroots, Smashed Frog	Incertus, Pushing Rope, The Spencerian
	St.Petersblog	Talk to Me, Eye on Miami	Miami-Dade Dems, South Florida Daily Blog, Transit Miami
	Political Whore	Naked Politics, The Fort Report	Political Insider, Q: The Florida Politics Blog, The Daily Pulp, Rick’s Blog
	The Gelber Blog	Grassroots Brevard, Tallahassee Leaders Forum	Joe Garcia, Samm Simpson
	Florida Democrats	Florida Young Democrats, Empty Chair Charlie	Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus, Democratic Black Caucus of Florida
	Dan Gelber	Kevin Beckner, Robert Wexler	Alan Brock, Tim Mahoney, Doug Tudor, Raul Martinez, Steven Blythe, Alan Grayson, Samm Simpson, Jerry Demings
	Hillsborough	Broward, East Hillsborough Democratic Club	Palm Beach, Wakulla, Pinellas, Brevard, Duval, Alachua, Marion
	Progressive Democrats of Florida	Florida Citizens for Science, Miami for Peace	DFA Miami
	Florida Red & Blue	DemsLink, Equality Florida	Say No to 2, Civic Concern, Fair Districts Florida
	Ken Quinnell, Florida Progressive Coalition	Dan Gelber – The Gelber Blog, Mustang Bobby – Bark Bark Woof Woof	Brian – Incertus, Vox Populi – Tampa’s Back Door Ways, Sheree Shatsky – Talk to Me, Michael Froomkin – Discourse.net, Adam Tebrugge – Adam4PD
	Dan Gelber – Legislature	Robert Wexler – Congress, Alan Brock – County Commission	Joe Garcia – Congress, Christian Chiari – Legislature, Annette Taddeo – Congress
	Alison Berke Morano – Pasco DEC – DCCA – Florida Progressive Coalition	Phil Perry – Florida Democratic Party, Ray Seaman – Florida Progressive Coalition – Progress Florida	Brandon Haught – Florida Citizens For Science, Chris Petley – becoming change, Mariella Smith – Sierra Club, Larry Thorson – Miami-Dade Dems
	Florida Netroots	Florida Citizens for Science, DFA Miami	Progressive Democrats of Miami-Dade, Progressive Gators
	Dan Gelber	Chris Petley, JF McCullers	Betty Cracker, Tommy McNeely
	Say No 2	Wexler Wants Hearings Campaign, Draft Joe Garcia	FDP Efforts on State Budget, Save Our Services
	It’s Not Called the Hate Amendment for Nothing – Kenneth Quinnell at Florida Progressive Coalition	Brooding At Breakfast With Al Gore – JF McCullers at Conniption Fit, One Way Out for Florida Democrats – Dan Gelber	Desire For Simple Answers – The Florida Primary – Kenneth Quinnell at Florida Progressive Coalition, The Fire, the brimstone: Preachers, faith and blowhards in the pulpit – Sheree Shatsky at Talk to Me, Who Are They Looking Out For – Dan Gelber, Florida Seeks To Enshrine Discrimination in the Constitution – Kenneth Quinnell at Florida Progressive Coalition,
	Florida Progressive Coalition – Stories to Read	FLA Politics – Florida Political News and Commentary, Eye on Miami – the Miami-Dade Urban Development Boundary	Florida Progressive Coalition – Legislative Roundup, Smashed Frog – Dave Aronberg and sexual predator laws, Blast Off! – Daily Schadenfreude, the 13th juror – Homelessness
	The Big Show with Alison Berke Morano and Kenneth Quinnell	The Countdown with Susan S and Kenneth Quinnell, Blast Off Radio with Sinfonian	The Mark Weaver Show, Situation Awareness with Hans Meyer, Conceptual Guerilla Radio
	Alison Berke Morano – Pasco DEC – DCCA – Florida Progressive Coalition, Susan Smith – GusWatch – DFA – Democratic Party – Florida Progressive Coalition, Joe Garcia – Miami-Dade DEC		Steve Schale – Florida House Victory, Sam Feldman – Democracy for America Miami, Jennifer Killingsworth – Florida Netroots