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what can i do to help in the louisiana runoff if i'm out of state
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LinYutang posted:Republicans are now in control of a record 67 (68 percent) of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the nation, more than twice the number (31) in which Democrats have a majority, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). yea we're in the fuckin gutter right now
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anime was right posted:doesnt this say everything about why democrats are losing local elections lol We used to have the Blue Dog Democrats like John Barrow up until the recent post-Tea Party slaughter. Now we barely have anything and I'm starting to get the sense that we're pretty anemic. Doesn't matter, I'll do it myself if I have to.
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GlyphGryph posted:Based on your region/county, try one of these: lol not even one for my county. I guess I am gonna have to do it myself.
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Nov 17, 2016 22:58
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lol u guys are no longer the democrats but the hubris party
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GlyphGryph posted:Let us know how it goes though, so we can learn what you learn. A lot of what needs to be done right now for us feels like just understanding the shape of things. My email posted:I found your contact info through the Mass Dems website. Their response posted:Welcome. We would love to have you involved. We are planning our upcoming events and Feargal who is the Vice Chair will add you to our email list. And Check our Somerville Dems facebook page as well as events come up. Their response posted:Thanks BrownClown - I added you to our email list. What’s your address and I will add you to your local Ward committee list too. Thanks. It was a quick reply from them, and I have no idea what the local Ward committee does, so I asked.
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BrownClown posted:It was a quick reply from them, and I have no idea what the local Ward committee does, so I asked. is this somerville, ma? you should come to a DSA meeting  altho i'm super curious what somerville dems are like
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Serf posted:Been a few days with no reply from the Georgia Democrats chair. Gonna start emailing everyone on the website soon, and if that doesn't work, I dunno, I guess I'll ask around at city hall? I got a prompt response from Nikema Williams, the vice chair. She also asked me for thoughts regarding bernies appeal to people of color. I emailed them both but haven't heard from porter yet.
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Baloogan posted:lol u guys are no longer the democrats but the hubris party
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I would theoretically like to get involved in local politics, but: social anxiety e: <------- this
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slicing up eyeballs posted:I got a prompt response from Nikema Williams, the vice chair. She also asked me for thoughts regarding bernies appeal to people of color. I emailed them both but haven't heard from porter yet. Hell yeah. I'll email her as soon as I get home. Baloogan posted:lol u guys are no longer the democrats but the hubris party I vote that we rename ourselves the Corncob Party, lest we forget our mistakes. Also we'll clinch that vital corn industry vote.
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I think the corncob thing must have happened while I wasn't posting in C-SPAM, what's the deal Urban Dictionary says that cobbing is projecting your own thoughts and prejudices onto other people and assuming everybody else thinks like you, is it a play on that
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Is there anything that can be done on the local level to make sure "sanctuary city" is more than just a nice label, or would that involve getting into armed conflict with ICE?
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Baloogan posted:the hubris party m t quote loquacius posted:I think the corncob thing must have happened while I wasn't posting in C-SPAM, what's the deal  a lot happened in c-spam when people chilled out (sort of) Lastgirl has issued a correction as of 23:19 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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Karl Barks posted:is this somerville, ma? you should come to a DSA meeting Yup. Somerville, MA. I did just join the DSA as part of their 10K push, and will hopefully attend their panel on education at MIT on Sunday. I also know nothing about local politics and organizing, so I feel comfortable at least giving the Dems a chance.
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cobbed = owned but cobbed is funny bc the association with corn is funny and fitting in many ways
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Fiction posted:Is there anything that can be done on the local level to make sure "sanctuary city" is more than just a nice label, or would that involve getting into armed conflict with ICE? at least in la sactuary city technically means the police force doesn't help ice in rounding up immigrants which massively hamstrings them as there are 5,000 total
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jeez people https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561
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LinYutang posted:democratic success WA doesn't count. State Senate is a 1 seat majority but one dem caucuses with Republicans
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I'm still really surprised that dril tweet wasn't made into the CSPAM background the day after the election
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What's nuts to me is that there definitely is some sort of local presence in every state, but we're a group of pretty sharp people and can't seem to find a way in. What hope would a less connected person working on their own have?
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GlyphGryph posted:
Edwards, our democratic governor, has been having a slap fight with the GOP controlled state legislature. Mainly over what taxes to raise/ spending to cut because of some balanced budget law we have. In general we'll elect democrats now and again. For this election the initial results were: Republican shitlord #1 - 25% Foster Campbell -17.5% Republican Shitlord #2 - 15.4% Some Democrat Lawyer -12.5% Republican Shitlord - 10.6% It does no look very good It's sad that northern Louisiana is full of lovely generic conservatives because even without global warming and oil spills we're environmentally hosed. Like New Orleans underwater levels of hosed
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NumberLast posted:WA doesn't count. State Senate is a 1 seat majority but one dem caucuses with Republicans I am still befuddled how this works. Like how do you keep the label.
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I imagine for the dems at least most people are pulled from colleges or business or from local psa types getting more involved, not from older members of the general public suddenly deciding to start joining en masse Basically same way they did it before the internet Also thanks for the LA update GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 23:37 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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NYC goons getting peeved at how terrible our democratic party is: the working familys party is crazy in top of things. I'd recommend giving them a try. They were a huge force behind sanders' GOTV. There was an organizing call today that I missed because of work, but hopefully there'll be more. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/come-home-to-the-working-families-party
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:What's nuts to me is that there definitely is some sort of local presence in every state, but we're a group of pretty sharp people and can't seem to find a way in. None lmao As far as I can tell there's little to no effort being made to expand participation in the local parties, at least in CA. It seems focused on using what few people show up/volunteer to focus specifically on calling/knocking on doors/sending out mailers during election times.
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Lemming posted:None lmao Pokemon Go to the polls
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they have a baked in win in four or eight years so why do they give a gently caress
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And you guys will probably make up some spots in two years, just automatically because you know Trump
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Anyone expecting the Democratic party to be nothing but cowardly peckerwoods pecking away at whatever chicken feed they can get their they can get their beaks around is a fool
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Cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck
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Baloogan posted:Cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck Stop! I can only get so erect!
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Baloogan posted:Cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck all the more reason to go to democratic party meetings so we can scream it in their faces
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It's no "This whole thing smacks of gender," but it's pretty high up there.
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ThndrShk2k posted:The party mascot will be: Icarus #only 80s dems will get this 
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Points if Luna energy will always be my favorite. But smacks of gender is also great.
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unwantedplatypus posted:Edwards, our democratic governor, has been having a slap fight with the GOP controlled state legislature. Mainly over what taxes to raise/ spending to cut because of some balanced budget law we have. In general we'll elect democrats now and again. For this election the initial results were: i hope they don't fix it and lsu football gets cancelled like what almost happened this year
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turtle_07 posted:NYC goons getting peeved at how terrible our democratic party is: the working familys party is crazy in top of things. I'd recommend giving them a try. They were a huge force behind sanders' GOTV. There was an organizing call today that I missed because of work, but hopefully there'll be more. I was mistaken, it's 7pm tonight (4pm central). You can get in on this hot hot action here: http://bit.ly/2fZLEOb
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big juicy nectarine posted:It's no "This whole thing smacks of gender," but it's pretty high up there. This is one of my favorites and is pretty prophetic https://twitter.com/dril/status/244795644961767425
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