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Electric Bugaloo posted:You finally showed up! I have a feeling I'm gonna need a lot of your help, in particular. Oh boy! I will prep info on VA state candidates when I get a free moment. VA is so close to being a full blue state I can taste it! In VA, every years an election year
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She’s good. https://twitter.com/meetmckayla/status/1162029998976335872?s=21
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Electric Bugaloo posted:. If anybody wants to start their own GOONPAC UK/Europe/Australia/Equestria thread they have my full endorsement. But we speak Just to say, if you are a fellow crumpet enthusiast venturing into this forum, no need to look for something like this, just join the UK Mega (Marxism) Thread; politically-inclined British goons are already some flavour of socialist or anarchist almost to a man/woman and most of us are card-carrying members of the Labour Party already.
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 MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD. ANOTHER BATTLEFIELD GAPES WIDER FOR OUR ONSLAUGHT    feedmegin posted:Just to say, if you are a fellow crumpet enthusiast venturing into this forum, no need to look for something like this, just join the UK Mega (Marxism) Thread; politically-inclined British goons are already some flavour of socialist or anarchist almost to a man/woman and most of us are card-carrying members of the Labour Party already. I mean, so are most people in USPOL. This is just about giving political action-oriented posts their own space so they don’t get buried in a thread that can pack on ~100 pages on a big day. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Aug 16, 2019 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:
Yup, good posts about candidates gets uhhhhhh swallowed by USPOL being USPOL at times so we really need an organizer space.
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I live in seth moulton's district I can tape poo poo in his office's windows and/or run against him if yall want
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So whose Band of Brothers in our analogy.
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Raenir Salazar posted:So whose Band of Brothers in our analogy. DNCC obviously.
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Nerd Grenade posted:If GOONPAC does ever want to become a legitimate, registered FEC PAC, I’m happy to help. Handling finances and federal filings is my job. Taken seriously. 100$ initial and 20$ /mo. Local races lets do it. Goons know what's up. Rather my pittance go to arguable the most credible antifash org in the internet.... It hurt to type that because it's true.
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BlueBlazer posted:Goons know what's up. Rather my pittance go to arguable the most credible antifash org in the internet.... It hurt to type that because it's true. OTOH having your candidates vetted by the same group of people who provided the capital for Doobie's Doghouse.
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BlueBlazer posted:Taken seriously. 100$ initial and 20$ /mo. God help the world if that’s true...
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It's always been like this and the people that came before always rose to the ocassion and did what was nessisary. Edit : even when they lost Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Is there a good place to go to determine how a House rep stacks up? I’ve toyed with running for office (card carrying regular donating DSA member) but haven’t been able to sit down and determine if my dem House rep is neutral or poor or worse. He’s basically guaranteed winning just for running and he’s been in for ages, but he seems to keep his head down. Maybe instead I’ll do state legislative (California) because I don’t want to fly to DC.
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Voting history, bills authored or cosponsored. It would require research, but committee appointments and what they accomplished or failed to accomplish while on committee are telling. How outspoken they were, how much of a lightning rod or whip they were could also be taken into consideration, but interpretations will be subjective and it's real hard, for example, to tell how what the actual political efficacy of constantly tweeting about poo poo is. Brokering deals, bargaining and cajoling for votes is also a big metric, but there isn't exactly much public record of it.
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I'm an unemployed AZ goon, how can I make myself useful?
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https://recorder.maricopa.gov/elections/vrtoolkit.aspx
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HelloSailorSign posted:Is there a good place to go to determine how a House rep stacks up? I’ve toyed with running for office (card carrying regular donating DSA member) but haven’t been able to sit down and determine if my dem House rep is neutral or poor or worse. He’s basically guaranteed winning just for running and he’s been in for ages, but he seems to keep his head down. If you're asking this, primary them
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GeminiSun posted:I'm an unemployed AZ goon, how can I make myself useful? Echoing the aforementioned voter registration drive rec. Alternatively, go research your local races and candidates. Come back here when you've identified at least one candidate at the town/city level, one at the state level, and one candidate at the federal (so like congress) level that you support.
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 I've started cleaning up the front page a bit. Keep the candidate suggestions coming. Not just congressional, let's look at some good governor's and state house races.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:
Keeping my ear to the ground on state elections. Will definitely recommend some when I have more info. Indiana needs to change its fortunes
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Spiffster posted:Keeping my ear to the ground on state elections. Will definitely recommend some when I have more info. Indiana needs to change its fortunes Just send me names or links and I’ll put them up.
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This one's a hell of a long shot, but Shahid Buttar is running to unseat Nancy Pelosi. https://shahidforchange.us His chances aren't good, but even him getting the exposure is a net positive. People need to see that things don't have to be this way.
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The inaugural GOONPAC Challenge is upElectric Bugaloo posted:
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Capn Jobe posted:This one's a hell of a long shot, but Shahid Buttar is running to unseat Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, they run jungle primaries there, right? So that means he basically needs to win twice? Hell of a long shot but if it makes her have to sit up and pay attention that's still something.
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Dzurlord posted:Yeah, they run jungle primaries there, right? So that means he basically needs to win twice? It may not be too difficult to get enough votes to keep the Republican dumpster-fire candidate (whomever decides to run is probably going to be) for people doing what they think are subtle protest votes. But if he comes out with a sizable number in the primary and it's between him and Pelosi in the final, it's certainly not impossible. Edit: EB, I'd probably add some vague score card for those doing phone banking or canvassing duties as being equal or simply different than pure monetary donations and that in the post-elections round-up can "win" over someone dumping $5k on "Not Cruz."
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HelloSailorSign posted:Edit: EB, I'd probably add some vague score card for those doing phone banking or canvassing duties as being equal or simply different than pure monetary donations and that in the post-elections round-up can "win" over someone dumping $5k on "Not Cruz." Good point. I was looking for a way to articulate that while there's obviously a ton of value in people who have the means to donate hundreds or thousands of dollars to do so, and we should cheer those people on, this is also not supposed to be a competition between goons who have disposable income and goons who don't. Some goons can afford to drop $1k at a time on a cause they consider worthy and many goons can't spend $50 without having to rejigger their monthly budget or spend less at the supermarket. This is part of why I've hesitated to just implement a straightforward points system, and why I'm hoping the focus stays more communal and celebratory than competitive. My thought is that we can have a little vote on Challenge MVPs or whatever at the end of September and highlight people who go above and beyond, and they could maybe name their award (upgrade, choosing the next challenge focus, etc), but I think poo poo like gangtags should be for all participants.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:The inaugural GOONPAC Challenge is up Well poo poo, I guess since I actually inspired this with my bitter-whine post in the USPOL thread I might as well post here. I'm not the most politically savvy fellow but as a Texan I really feel that the true way to make Texas go blue is to take a crowbar or hammer and pry off or smash every local level GOP politician we can. Beto's coat-tails kinda proved this as people voting for him also voted down-ballot for Democratic or DSA people. Vote for governor and such but what you really need to turn Texas Blue is to focus on the state congress on down. And even if we lose here in Texas, every dollar we spend, every hour of GOTV that the GOP spends money on to counter is less money for the national GOP to spend defending weaker races nationwide. If we can't turn Texas blue, we should turn it into a moneypit sucking at the GOP's warchest. 
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Cross posted it to the Texas Politics thread and they are brainstorming some districts of interest. They have some ideasSab0921 posted:Give all your money to the Harris County Democratic Party, tia. Will research this to see if they have an active donation link. No Safe Word posted:Some important/interesting/winnable races: Some of these might be too soon due to either overcrowded field or lack of names but we have races to watch now Texas no longer has straight ticket voting so that’s something to keep in mind for the future as well. Spiffster fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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Alkydere posted:Well poo poo, I guess since I actually inspired this with my bitter-whine post in the USPOL thread I might as well post here. I'm not the most politically savvy fellow but as a Texan I really feel that the true way to make Texas go blue is to take a crowbar or hammer and pry off or smash every local level GOP politician we can. Beto's coat-tails kinda proved this as people voting for him also voted down-ballot for Democratic or DSA people. Hell Yes. Let's make some entrenched town-level GOP fixture scared when this year's challenger suddenly has a budget to draw from. Also: A chat I had today reminded me of how grotesque the Alabama/Georgia/Missouri abortion ban pushes were, and are, and I got mad all over again. I'd like to make a permanent section highlighting every single motherfucker that voted for one of these bans, who their challenger is if they have one, and links to donate to the challengers' campaigns. I want to make it easy for people to drop into the thread, choose a link, and fire off a donation when they feel pissed. Thoughts?
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Hell Yes. Let's make some entrenched town-level GOP fixture scared when this year's challenger suddenly has a budget to draw from. I mean, this fits with the title. If you make it super easy and give someone
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HelloSailorSign posted:I mean, this fits with the title. Get a load of this J4G
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BlueBlazer posted:Taken seriously. 100$ initial and 20$ /mo. I’m at a loss for what you’re asking/implying here. Anyway, we can setup supporter ActBlue pages where we can make it easy to give to all of our candidates or just a few in particular (like a random assortment of Texas Dems for the challenge). If this sounds cool to you guys, I can set up the pages and link them here. This doesn’t require any kind of official registration or anything like that.
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Nerd Grenade posted:I’m at a loss for what you’re asking/implying here. Do it!
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In the meantime here is the Harris County Democratic Party donate page.
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I’m in Harris county (Houston) and think this PAC is a neat idea - if anyone else in the area knows of good volunteer opportunities/etc. I’m fairly inexperienced with this sort of thing outside canvassing in a few previous elections. I’d love to learn more.
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That Works posted:Get a load of this J4G But I paid the application fee and everything 
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GeminiSun posted:I'm an unemployed AZ goon, how can I make myself useful? Are you in or near Phoenix? If so, I can introduce you to the good activists at Progressive Democrats of America here, who in turn can broaden your connection to the whole left-side political action in the valley. For now, one of the most important races you can support in this state is Mark Kelly's bid for Senate. Arizona is one of the three must-win senate seats this year for Democrats, and Kelly is about a 50/50 bet against the (appointed) Republican Incumbent Martha McSally at the moment. Arizona is going to feature what is likely to be the most competitive senate race in the country for 2020. The house and local state races most relevant to you depends on where in the state you live, but if you want to reach out I would be happy to point you to where your energy and time could be put to good use. LegendaryFrog fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Captain Monkey posted:I’m in Harris county (Houston) and think this PAC is a neat idea - if anyone else in the area knows of good volunteer opportunities/etc. I’m fairly inexperienced with this sort of thing outside canvassing in a few previous elections. I’d love to learn more. The municipal elections are going on so those candidates are looking for vols, but dont do it unless you really believe in the candidate. Alternatively, Houston DSA and the Harris County Dem Party could always use bodies to help in their efforts. HCDP has an HQ in the 5th Ward that you can walk into and say I'm here to help and DSA has a monthly meeting where you can go and say you're there to help.
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Spiffster posted:In the meantime here is the Harris County Democratic Party donate page. Let's get this going! 
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