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GlyphGryph posted:Radical. Definitely! Michigan District 13 but I can hook folks up with progressives in other districts as well.
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As a New England person who frequently moves between states I wonder how much cross state politica there is. Seems like we are all close enough to be working together, anyway
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Dec 10, 2016 23:07
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A week or two ago I signed up to get involved with the Dallas County (Texas) Democrats and just got an email back about it yesterday, so hopefully I'll be able to get involved soon.
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Dec 10, 2016 23:53
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Put me in for Delaware.
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Dec 11, 2016 00:29
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Illinois. Its a Dem stronghold but its the kind of Dems that Reps like to point to when they try to claim they're all corrupt as gently caress. (Of course the Reps here are corrupt as gently caress too there's just fewer of them in statewide office so they don't make as many headlines due to attrition).
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Georgia. Down in Candler County, which is close to gently caress all except Statesboro and Savannah. Ready and willing to coordinate with anybody else down here.
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i will participate in the south carolina democratic party only if i am allowed to call myself 'king of the damned'
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I'm Jefferson County Louisville. I think there were two other Kentuckians here, that guy who wanted to run for state house and some other guy
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Serf posted:Georgia. Down in Candler County, which is close to gently caress all except Statesboro and Savannah. Ready and willing to coordinate with anybody else down here. Fulton county here. Let's take over GA.
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Fulton county here. Let's take over GA. In Dekalb county (and roughly fifty feet from Fulton). Looking up information I missed the Dekalb officer elections back on the 1st, and no mention of other party events this month. The Young Democrats apparently have a holiday party on Wednesday in Avondale, though.
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Okay, I think OP is up to date with membership so far, double check your status though!
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Sojenus posted:In Dekalb county (and roughly fifty feet from Fulton). Looking up information I missed the Dekalb officer elections back on the 1st, and no mention of other party events this month. The Young Democrats apparently have a holiday party on Wednesday in Avondale, though. I think I'll check that out. On Friday the DSA is having a holiday party at First Existentialist Congregation
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Dec 11, 2016 20:11
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Please add me as a member! California, Marin. Also contact me if you're in the Bay Area and interested in, or already a member of, the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Dec 11, 2016 20:28
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I'm in California, Alameda County.
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Lemming posted:I'm in California, Alameda County. Same.
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Zberan Madowinty posted:Kentucky Goon pathetic little tramp posted:Kentucky Dems Former Everything posted:A quick note regarding the Kentucky Democratic Party: Likewise from Louisville. I've been involved in January of this year and went to the state convention in June. Metro Dems is the biggest club in Louisville, which isn't saying a ton as many have closed in recent years. Usually has a good 30+ person turnout, and we have about 120 members who are dues-paying ($30/year) and have attended at least one meeting in the last year. As Zbean Madowinty mentioned, there's a potluck on Wednesday. Here's the newsletter. http://eepurl.com/csgyRX A lot of people on the county executive committee and the state central executive committee are members and officers of Metro Dems. I got elected to the board at the last meeting, so if you are coming, shoot me at email at my username @gmail.com, and we can connect. The state party is a complete disaster. The Jefferson County party is actually rebuilding. The county party treasurer, who is also the state vice-chair, just got fired last week by the county party chair. A lot of division between Louisville and KDP right now, which is a good thing and means Jefferson is improving. But people like Longmeyer thrived in county and state Democratic party politics for so long for a reason, and it's a struggle.
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Syndlig posted:I admire your willingness to help despite not being a citizen yet. I wish I'd actually given a poo poo back when I was just a resident. Sadly part of my willingness is due to the recent election result. I probably wouldn't care much about politics otherwise. I'm in Albany County, Wyoming. Somewhat purple county in an obscure, deep red state, but I'm hoping to still get involved around here and maybe at least have a slight impact on the local politics.
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Spent a couple hours today making phone calls for a runoff election in my area. Man, I'm enthused about volunteering but that is some boring rear end poo poo. Gotta give my respect to anyone who does that all day for multiple days during election season.mastajake posted:A week or two ago I signed up to get involved with the Dallas County (Texas) Democrats and just got an email back about it yesterday, so hopefully I'll be able to get involved soon. So looking up your county, you've got a Dallas County Young Democrats meeting on Tuesday @ 6:30 at 3903 Cedar Springs Rd. If you wanna start getting connected sooner rather than later, that's a good meeting to go to. Most goons here probably fall under the category of "Young Democrat", which is typically "40 or under". You've got a fuckload of clubs to join in your area, though it looks like the county party itself isn't terribly open, every meeting on their calendar has been cancelled. AbDomen posted:Sadly part of my willingness is due to the recent election result. I probably wouldn't care much about politics otherwise. Don't feel bad about that, I'm sure the majority of us only started giving a poo poo once we realized we got shellacked. Looking at your county party's website, they meet every 2nd Monday, so your next meeting is actually tomorrow @ 6:00 PM at Albany County Public Library, 310 S 8th St, Laramie WY. If you're not busy, you should drop by and see how active the party is. If they're as small as the photos imply you should have no issue becoming important just by showing up. EDIT: Also a couple of your state representatives are part of your county party so that's even cooler! surfacelevelspeck has issued a correction as of 22:03 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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GlyphGryph posted:Okay, I think OP is up to date with membership so far, double check your status though! I'm in touch with Dr. Arbitrary now, thanks to this thread, and he's helping me get involved with my local set-up. Arizona, by the way.
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ZeeToo posted:I'm in touch with Dr. Arbitrary now, thanks to this thread, and he's helping me get involved with my local set-up.  Make sure to post updates about what you do, my enthusiasm is increased with every other person I see getting involved!
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Syndlig posted:Spent a couple hours today making phone calls for a runoff election in my area. Man, I'm enthused about volunteering but that is some boring rear end poo poo. Gotta give my respect to anyone who does that all day for multiple days during election season. It's a lot better if you do it with a group of people you like and can bs with in between calls.
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I'm in the process of moving out of Austin, TX so I'm not really in a position to go to any meetings right now, but I plan on getting active when I move to Seattle in January. There's a special election in a lean R district in the Seattle suburbs and if the Dems can win it they'll have full control of the Washington state government, so I'm hoping to do some work to help win that seat. This thread has been super  to read right now, watching people make a change in their local parties. The upside of no one caring about local politics in America is that it doesn't take too much to make change happen on a local level if you can organize and get new people on board.
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Signed up in Onondaga County, New York. It looks like they're going to have their next meeting sometime in January? They sure have a heck of a website: http://www.ocdemocrats.com
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KimotaBoom posted:Signed up in Onondaga County, New York. It looks like they're going to have their next meeting sometime in January? They sure have a heck of a website: http://www.ocdemocrats.com ANIMATION! aside, there's some good info there. It's got the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses of all the town and ward chairs. It's not a bad website, all told! Grondoth has issued a correction as of 23:30 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:I think I'll check that out. On Friday the DSA is having a holiday party at First Existentialist Congregation Unfortunately I just realized Wednesday is the day I have my in-laws flying in from out of the country to pick up so no-go on Dekalb Young Democrats meeting for me. I'm going to try and make that DSA meeting though, but the most difficult part will be convincing my wife I'm not just trying to get out of spending time with them considering I've never been active with politics before.
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Sojenus posted:Unfortunately I just realized Wednesday is the day I have my in-laws flying in from out of the country to pick up so no-go on Dekalb Young Democrats meeting for me. I think living in Georgia during the Trumpenreich is a good enough reason. If you get a chance to head out, I'll see you there. It starts at 7:00
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AbDomen posted:Sadly part of my willingness is due to the recent election result. I probably wouldn't care much about politics otherwise. Hey neighbor, Im in Laramie County. From what Ive seen on the website the party here is pretty firmly in "BERNIE WAS RIGHT" territory, so this should be fun.
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Fulton county here. Let's take over GA. What up. Good to know there's a couple of us lurking around out here.
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Anyone have any experience with Seattle (Ballard) dems? Looking to attend the January monthly meeting of the 36th district. Maybe the DSA as well depending on how the dems are.
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I sent in a volunteer application to the San Diego Dems so I guess maybe I'll be getting involved possibly.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I sent in a volunteer application to the San Diego Dems so I guess maybe I'll be getting involved possibly. This is not the way to get involved in the actual party stuff. Go to meetings and email and call people to find out what is happening and how to make your voice heard If you just want to be free labour thats fine to but you should still get to know people so you end up doing free labour for the right person anyway so still also do the other stuff
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GlyphGryph posted:This is not the way to get involved in the actual party stuff. Go to meetings and email and call people to find out what is happening and how to make your voice heard Oh I'm gonna do that too for sure, I just thought being a volunteer is also a good thing to do.
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my idiot dad broke his hand, hips, and feet putting up christmas lights on a ladder on unstable ground and have to tend to him so i can't go to the dem office meetings today and i go on a japan trip the week after  will probably start when i come back from japan
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Dont worry too much about it. Despite my organizing and enthusiasm i still havent gotten to a single meeting myself because my wife is still recovering from surgery and i need to care for the baby. Just get there in person when you can and dont procrastinate because who knows when a family member us gonna get themselves seriously injured apparently.
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This is also a weird time to get involved. November was election month, which means reorganization is next. Those meetings are really for the local groups to choose new leadership, and often you have to be elected to whatever your State's version of Precinct Committee/Ward Captain, is. December is holiday season, some places just cancel their meeting. I've been talking to people who are really involved at the local level and even they don't know when their December meeting is. January... That's the month we need to be shooting for. The holidays are over, time to get back into the routine.
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Travis County Goons: here's your events happening this week. Sorry I posted this late and ended up missing a Forum this morning at 11:45 AM. Mon, Dec 12 @ 6:00pm at Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd. Liberal Austin Democrats are having a membership party and holding elections. Dunno if this is an open event, might want to call ahead and find out. Tue, Dec 13 @ 6:30pm at Wright Bros. Brew and Brew, 500 San Marcos St #105. Austin Young Democrats are holding their monthly meeting. Wed, Dec 14 @ 5:30pm at El Gallo Restaurant, 2910 S Congress Ave. South Austin Democrats and Austin Tejano Democrats are having a party. Again, call ahead to find out about it. Wed, Dec 14 @ 6:30pm at 3418 N Lamar Blvd. Stonewall Democrats of Austin are having a happy hour/business meeting. Thu, Dec 15 @ 6:00pm at 4717 Heflin Ln. Black Austin Democrats are holding their monthly meeting. Williamson County Goons: There's only one event happening the rest of this month, which is the WCDP Holiday Party on Thu, Dec 15 @ 6:30pm at 445 E Morrow St, Georgetown. $25 door fee, might be worth going to. I'm going, hopefully I'll meet more Wilco goons there? There's also runoffs happening tomorrow, so if you can get to your district's voting station you should. I don't know enough about any of the elections to say one way or the other, but here's the party endorsements if that means anything to you: WCDP & TCDP are endorsing Sean Hassan for ACC Place 4, and a bunch of clubs are also endorsing Julie Nitsch for ACC Place 9. TCDP is also endorsing Alison Alter for Austin City Council District 10.
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Got an email from the local young dems organizer in the KY, lol at the ineptitude:quote:Do NOT look at the county party website. That is woefully inaccurate and hasn't been updated in years. Pretty much nothing about the website is right. The party does not even currently have control of it. Yes, you read that correctly. The good news: I recently became Communications Chair, and we are launching a new website. This major accomplishment involved a lot more drama than I would like to publicly share, but is possibly the biggest victory for the YDs in Louisville since we began.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Got an email from the local young dems organizer in the KY, lol at the ineptitude: Christ. This should be a national priority on our quest to get our poo poo together.
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