Erin Kotecki Vest

Erin Kotecki Vest

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Erin spent eight years bringing you live, breaking news on-the-air at Los Angeles news institution KFWB and other broadcasting outlets. She has six Golden Mike Awards stashed in the closet from those KFWB Los Angeles days including "Best Investigative Reporting: Port in Peril," the piece that touched off dozens of local, state and federal hearings on our nation's port security. (Not to mention a swarm of similar stories and investigations by news networks across the nation.)

Erin has spent the past five years making her own headlines on the motherhood front, with the birth of a son in 2003 and a daughter in 2005. But never without critiquing the evening news and second-guessing an editor's choice of morning headlines.

She chronicles the afterlife of big city reporter turned Mommy at her personal blog where she is known as the "Queen of Spain."

Blog Entries by Erin Kotecki Vest

It's Over. Now What? Hug a Hillary Supporter

23 Comments | Posted May 7, 2008 | 12:42 AM (EST)


I'm not really sure how to make up with my Hillary Clinton-supporting friends.

I got damn mad at them. They got damn mad at me.

Even when we tried to be civil, we were gritting our teeth and muttering swear words.

I accused their candidate of turning GOP....

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Permanent

6 Comments | Posted April 29, 2008 | 01:34 AM (EST)


I did it.

I put an Obama '08 bumper sticker on the back of the Momvan, MOSTLY to reassure MYSELF this nomination is not going to be stolen.

See the bumper sticker is never coming off. Someone is going to buy the 'ol Town & Country years from now and...

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Two Castles of Power

8 Comments | Posted April 23, 2008 | 08:49 PM (EST)


I feel very lucky that back in July of 2006, Arianna and I chatted at the BlogHer conference in San Jose and she immediately invited me to blog. Since then, I've managed to piss off, rally, inspire, and bore readers far and wide.

This site does a great...

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Elite Citizen Journalism? TechCrunch Blocks Momblogger on Twitter

2 Comments | Posted April 18, 2008 | 01:08 PM (EST)


That would be me.

I'm not kidding.

Remember all the stuff I was saying about how the women in tech are ignored? They are never asked to speak at conferences, entirely overlooked, blah blah blah blah blah? I think I also touched on how the big bad tech boys who...

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ABC Show Us the Debate LIVE

10 Comments | Posted April 16, 2008 | 06:28 PM (EST)


As I get ready to Twitter, LiveBlog, and run an Open Thread on tonight's Democratic debate I've been told ABC is not treating this as a live event, but as a television show. They will be showing the debate TAPE DELAYED to the West Coast.

Um...ABC, in...

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Elitist My Ass

249 Comments | Posted April 12, 2008 | 06:19 PM (EST)


It has been awhile since I've been back to my hometown near Detroit, Michigan. I took the kids there in early 2007; the cold and unemployment were a stark reminder of why I left.

The abandoned buildings. For Sale signs. The way the road goes from smooth to bumpy when...

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Calling "These People" Out: More On the Increasingly Tiresome -- And Dangerous -- Obama/Clinton Divide

24 Comments | Posted March 31, 2008 | 05:57 AM (EST)


As I do from time-to-time here on Huffington Post, I am turning over the keys to another insightful and mouthy woman. Meet Victoria


Calling "These People" Out: More on the Increasingly Tiresome -- And Dangerous -- Obama/Clinton Divide


By Victoria Marinelli

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The Story I Didn't Tell You

30 Comments | Posted March 28, 2008 | 03:14 AM (EST)


On Super Tuesday, February 5th 2008, I drove to Central Los Angeles (with pneumonia) and interviewed Congresswoman Maxine Waters for BlogHer.com.

During the course of the interview we discussed why she was supporting Senator Hillary Clinton and I shared with her the story of my very stubborn...

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Obama Mama

Posted March 16, 2008 | 05:17 AM (EST)


I'm fairly certain I have read this New York Times article on Barack Obama's mother, the late Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, no less than five times.

I'm the first to admit my own path in motherhood is rocky. Rocky isn't the right word... it's been more like pebbles here...

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Roseanne Barr Can Suck It

Posted March 8, 2008 | 02:45 AM (EST)


In the grand tradition of having it out with my fellow Huffington Post contributors, I figured it was time I opened my mouth at the latest post by Roseanne Barr.

You see, I've actually been biting my tongue on her writing thus far. Her posts have been...

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Moms Online Way Ahead of Media Giants

Posted February 28, 2008 | 12:47 PM (EST)


I'm not sure if you've been paying attention lately, but traditional media seems to be a few steps behind social media.

They can't break news as fast as Twitter. They can't seem to get hot topics discussed as fast as blogs. And they can't seem to get a...

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Feminists For Obama. I'm #1085

Posted February 20, 2008 | 06:23 PM (EST)


It's always empowering to know you are not alone.

I've encountered many female communities in my lifetime that have reminded me why women are so very influential.

This latest effort reminds me once again the hand that rocks the cradle, rocks the world.

Visit the...

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Dear Senator Clinton, Please Step Down

Posted February 12, 2008 | 10:19 PM (EST)


This is a very hard letter for me to write, so please bear with me.

I'd like to ask you, with all due respect and humility, to step down as a Democratic candidate for president of the United States.

Please understand this is not because I believe you can not...

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Hillary and Me -- Pimps Forever ?!

Posted February 11, 2008 | 07:18 PM (EST)


I need to stand up and take Senator Hillary Clinton's side on this one.

There is no excuse for a network on-air personality to say Chelsea Clinton was "sort of being pimped out" by the Clinton campaign. And Barbara Walters is rather deluded if she thinks this issue...

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COUP! 16-year Old Takes Over Huffington Post

Posted February 1, 2008 | 12:36 PM (EST)


I'm handing the keys of my Huffington Post contributor account today to a bright young woman named Chloe Spencer. She's 16, she blogs, and she deserves your attention and respect (I'm looking at you snarky commenters)-I think Chloe represents the growing voice of young America with passion and intelligence. And...

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Apparently I'm Supposed to Care Which Candidate is "Sexy"

Posted January 19, 2008 | 12:47 PM (EST)


What the HELL is this crap? Are you serious? A poll asking South Carolina voters which presidential candidate is the SEXIEST. Really?

I'm just curious what is accomplished by a poll like this, why any polling company would ask this question, and why the hell they...

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How Hillary Can Win Me Back

Posted January 6, 2008 | 12:26 PM (EST)


I saw it during the ABC/Facebook debate last night. That spark. I SAW IT.

When Edwards and Obama started hammering her tag-team style, she got ANGRY-that's when the Hillary I used to love came back out to fight.

Of course, that Hillary is the one that tends...

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Dear Michelle Obama, a Look Back

Posted January 2, 2008 | 04:30 AM (EST)


About a year ago, I wrote an open letter to Michelle Obama and published it here on the Huffington Post. It was picked up by the Chicago Sun Times and for one reason or another became a heavy topic around the web and at dinner tables because me-the...

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I Tried To Tell You: Why Oprah Matters

Posted December 9, 2007 | 01:03 PM (EST)


Back in October of last year I posted a piece here on HuffPo after I had watched a then, undeclared, Senator Obama sit with Oprah.

"Oprah is talking to Obama about the possibility of him running for President in 2008. And I'm ignoring the cries of 'WHERE...
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Thankful My Daughter and I are Not Jets Fans

Posted November 22, 2007 | 11:19 AM (EST)


I really don't think it's too much to ask that if I take my daughter to a football game, we walk to get a pretzel and some nachos without being harassed by a drunken mob. Call me crazy, but I'd love to actually sit near Gate D at a New...

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