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Dicere posted:Can anyone point me in the direction of the best tutorials for NGP VAN/DNC Votebuilder/MiniVAN? Don't know any tutorials, but if you get good at the VAN you will have a great volunteering job that doesn't involve knocking on doors or making phone calls.
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Feb 22, 2017 04:35
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Some motherfucker beat me to becoming precinct chair!
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Feb 22, 2017 04:55
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blue squares posted:Some motherfucker beat me to becoming precinct chair! Blue squares would have won
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GlyphGryph posted:Blue squares would have won
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blue squares posted:Some motherfucker beat me to becoming precinct chair! yeah yeah blame the bernei brwos
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Feb 22, 2017 05:20
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Went to the second monthly meeting last night. We had actually more turnout than January. By like half again, I think. Ran out of seats and several people ended up leaning against furniture. I signed up for Arizona's Request To Speak system, so with the help of some of the local people like the secretary I'm going to be registering my opinions on a lot of upcoming bills here. Also I guess I'm probably going to be a PC. When I pointed out where I lived on the map, everyone was excited in the sense of "oh, great, we have like no one out that way". In the next couple weeks, I'm going to be meeting with one of our people to discuss what that would entail and what would be expected.
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https://twitter.com/WSJPolitics/status/834442195050590210 keep it up 
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ZeeToo posted:Went to the second monthly meeting last night. Glad to hear you're fitting in. The PC role is what you make it. Don't worry about failing to meet your responsibilities, if you simply show up to most meetings and make an effort to get to County meetings you'll be in the top 50% of PCs.
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Whoo I'm not the only pc who became a pc by default  if I meet any other democrats in my district I'll throw a bbq on fourth of July on the cracked concrete slab behind my apartment that's pretty much all I can come up v  v
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Agean90 posted:Whoo I'm not the only pc who became a pc by default I am also a PC who slid into his spot via apathy! I'm hoping to ride this upswell all the way to my first of many stunning losses in local elections come 2018
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Wow, that's great. Heard about the WA Dem chair race last month, glad to hear they were successful
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Hearing those centrist assholes wringing their hands and wining about the possibility of primary challenges makes my blood boil. Those fuckers act like their whole coalition hadn't just collapsed in on itself like a popped boil. Trump didn't win, Clinton lost, and you don't get to talk about what a disaster a left Tea Party would be when the right Tea Party just bodied you.
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Feb 23, 2017 01:00
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I got yelled at on Facebook for not respecting Feinstein 
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Feb 23, 2017 01:20
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:I got yelled at on Facebook for not respecting Feinstein Who RESPECTS Feinstein? She's been a "fuckin' goddamnit lady" senator for about 2 decades.
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Grondoth posted:Who RESPECTS Feinstein? She's been a "fuckin' goddamnit lady" senator for about 2 decades. Longer than that: http://archives.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2014/11/04/35-years-ago-today-jello-biafra-came-in-fourth-in-the-sf-mayoral-race
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Few updates! 8:15 tomorrow (Thursday Night) night, Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant Part 2! I'll be reading it in the discord channel, discussion will be in "reading and philosophy" and the "reading-rainbow" voice channel will have the reading itself. Other than that just personal update stuff. I don't know how much I've really been accomplishing politically, but man this has been great for my social life. Getting invited to political events, social events, church events, and even found someone on my street that invites a good chunk of the neighbourhood leftist community over for spaghetti dinner every wednesday night. There were more people there than at the DTC meeting! Starting to run into familiar faces across situations too, so that's interesting. Despite the logistical hurdles of having a toddler, kids really are great at breaking the ice in social terms. I'm still hellishly bad at remembering who anyone else is, but at least now everyone is remember me, you know?
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Feb 23, 2017 02:59
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I made nametags for everyone in my legislative district. Makes it easier on me and everyone thinks I'm the bees knees. One of the best canvassers in my area, before she moved, was a young woman who had two kids. She'd go knock on doors with her kids in tow, people were much more likely to open the door and talk politics.
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I am, right now, seated and waiting for my Rep's town hall to begin. He is Ro Khanna, a liberal representative from a liberal part of California. I'm probably to his left, but this isn't like if I was going to see Chaffetz or something. He and I will largely agree, so I am having trouble coming up with questions. Any suggestions for questions or comments I might state?
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idk ur local politics but (this is a guess cause u said california) how can u stop the illegal exploitation of immigrant workers and ensure that they can legally work in america for a livable wage
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Ask him about getting tech money out of local elections. That'll rile him up.
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I am, right now, seated and waiting for my Rep's town hall to begin. Why did you feel it necessary to run against Mike Honda?
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Feb 23, 2017 04:13
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Alright, so I've been going to my area's DNC party for the past two months. I think I'm the only one under fifty, and forty, and thirty.
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I got to pose a live question to my representative (Ro Khanna). Paraphrased: "Will you commit, in front of all of us (~500 attending), to supporting a national $15 minimum wage? Even if it fails in this Congress, in the next election I want to be able to say 'Democrats fight for $15 while Republicans fight to take away your healthcare'". He responded with an enthusiastic yes, then went on to say he also supports increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit to give a trillion dollars directly to low paid workers instead of the proposed tax cut for people earning six figures. Leftie California owns.
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Got back from a town hall earlier, I told Steve Glazer (CA state senator who wants to make it illegal for the BART union to strike) to his face that he's the kind of Democrat that's driving me away from the party, I don't know if it was helpful or not but I felt good about it There's gonna be another one in a week, I hope he remembers me
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Hey sweet, my question to Ro Khanna made a local newspaper:East Bay Times posted:After Khanna said he supports a $15 minimum wage in response to a question, he doubled down on his idea that Democrats must be more bold in their actions. Attend your town halls and ask questions, folks. Hell, someone go to your local town hall and ask "Will you support Ro Khanna's effort to increase the EITC by 1 trillion dollars?" Chimp_On_Stilts has issued a correction as of 04:06 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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Feb 24, 2017 04:01
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Just a reminder - now more than ever it's important to get involved, stay active, and take over.
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GlyphGryph posted:Just a reminder - now more than ever it's important to get involved, stay active, and take over. Federal level dnc politics mean nothing to what goes on in your back yard, get active stay active
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Lemming posted:Got back from a town hall earlier, I told Steve Glazer (CA state senator who wants to make it illegal for the BART union to strike) to his face that he's the kind of Democrat that's driving me away from the party, I don't know if it was helpful or not but I felt good about it You almost won an election, I'm sure he'll remember you. I mean I think. I donno.
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The establishment is expecting all the progressives getting involved to just get bored and go home fwiw don't do that
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LinYutang posted:The establishment is expecting all the progressives getting involved to just get bored and go home fwiw Erie county hasn't had a free event since their whole room they moved to cause there was too many people who came got filled to the brim and everyone was standing and they ran out of signup sheets for chairpeople/voter outreach. It's all been 50 bux+ fundraisers yeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
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Grondoth posted:Erie county hasn't had a free event since their whole room they moved to cause there was too many people who came got filled to the brim and everyone was standing and they ran out of signup sheets for chairpeople/voter outreach. It's all been 50 bux+ fundraisers yeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaw Hold some free events of your own.
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GlyphGryph posted:Hold some free events of your own. Totally. There are rules that govern the organization of your local party, we can help you figure them out. In the meantime, if you organize in parallel, you might be able to get the numbers you need to take over. Best case, they're clueless and they'll love you. Worst case, you'll have to oust them.
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I'm getting involved in some stuff in my area (south central MN) and I joined the Discord channel to ask questions, but it looks like I need to be verified. I set my nickname there to be the same as my SA username, and so I'm hoping that someone here can verify me.
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Today I finally had lunch with the chair of georgia's 12th district. he's gonna hook me up with a list of known democratic voters and we're gonna try and get them together to restart the party in my county. the guy who usually runs as a democrat for our state representative seat is a shady poo poo bag who pockets the money from the state party and then doesn't run, so we're gonna look at ways to disrupt his bullshit. the chair is a 70 year old man and most of the people he mentioned are also older folks. getting younger people involved is like my #1 priority right now also, it turns out that the woman who ran for congress for my district, patricia mccracken, was literally an 80-year-old woman with alzheimers who was put on the ballot and won the primary because everyone just voted for the person at the top of the list. the lady who ran against her had yard signs and campaigned all over the district but lost because people are too fuckin lazy to research the people they're voting for. that's disheartening as poo poo, but gently caress it i guess
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Does anyone know what the process is for local parties electing delegates? I want to show up to my town DCC meeting and run for delegate but I'm not sure who actually votes on it.
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Serf posted:also, it turns out that the woman who ran for congress for my district, patricia mccracken, was literally an 80-year-old woman with alzheimers who was put on the ballot and won the primary because everyone just voted for the person at the top of the list. the lady who ran against her had yard signs and campaigned all over the district but lost because people are too fuckin lazy to research the people they're voting for. that's disheartening as poo poo, but gently caress it i guess That's sad as hell.
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Fiction posted:Does anyone know what the process is for local parties electing delegates? I want to show up to my town DCC meeting and run for delegate but I'm not sure who actually votes on it. Pretty sure if you are a registered Democrat you get to vote.
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Internet Explorer posted:Pretty sure if you are a registered Democrat you get to vote. lol where did you hear that
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