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Not much there about economic justice and wealth inequality. I'd grill 'em on that, ask what they'll do to help people economically and figure out if they're neoliberal scum or what.
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Pollyanna posted:Not much there about economic justice and wealth inequality. I'd grill 'em on that, ask what they'll do to help people economically and figure out if they're neoliberal scum or what.
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You should also grill him on obstructing the Republicans. One of the most important things we need to do right now is to radicalize Dems Tea Party-style by pressuring against "compromise" with Trump. (btw, the link in your post is broken for me)
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HorseRenoir posted:(btw, the link in your post is broken for me) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-ahead-tickets-30466452981 If that doesn't work, you can access it from Beyer's page: http://beyer.house.gov/ and the text in case everything is just hosed: quote:Many of you have been in touch with my office recently, calling with anxiety over next steps for our nation and how we will work to bridge the great divisions that exist in our rich and complex country. Grey Fox has issued a correction as of 03:46 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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looking on the OP, and i dont see any mississippi/north carolina/new orleans/tennessee goons listed we need to be everywhere, guys 
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Grey Fox posted:Crossposting from the Dem thread: Use it as an opportunity to hook up with other people with similar concerns. Take note of who asks good questions, and approach them afterwards and talk about how something must be done, especially if Beyer turns out to be neoliberal scum. Because then you need to start getting involved in primarying the guy ASAP.
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Race Realists posted:looking on the OP, and i dont see any mississippi/north carolina/new orleans/tennessee goons listed There's more goons involved than have asked to be added to the OP, I've been contacted by someone in North Carolina at least.
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GlyphGryph posted:Use it as an opportunity to hook up with other people with similar concerns. Take note of who asks good questions, and approach them afterwards and talk about how something must be done, especially if Beyer turns out to be neoliberal scum. Because then you need to start getting involved in primarying the guy ASAP.
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Race Realists posted:looking on the OP, and i dont see any mississippi/north carolina/new orleans/tennessee goons listed Veyrall in the DND Effective Leftism thread is trying to organize in Mississippi. The link should probably go in the OP: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3798064
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Grey Fox posted:Crossposting from the Dem thread: There's a lot you can do here. Find his staff too. There's going to be a bunch of people who come to every meeting like this, they're tuned into stuff. Figure out who they are. This is a great place to meet people who are engaged.
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Hey, as long as you guys are talking about what to do in Virginia, reminder that Cheryl Turpin is running in the special election for the 85th District of VA and is in a close-but-winnable race, please send her your power and your volunteering. All she's got is a facebook page and a hype man, let's do the work.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Got an email from the local young dems organizer in the KY, lol at the ineptitude: FYI, this was the status of the King's County DNC website as of 2012. It's been fixed now, and honestly it was a huge win. It's also not ineptitude, it is malice.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:FYI, this was the status of the King's County DNC website as of 2012. It's been fixed now, and honestly it was a huge win. It's also not ineptitude, it is malice. it is absolutely malice. anything and everything can be a political tool, and must be taken as such. trust no one.
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So they finally listed my candidacy on the CA Dem district delegate page. Turns out I actually have ~15 competitors for these 7 seats. My girlfriend is in a similar situation. So much for a low-effort power grab!
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Vox Nihili posted:So they finally listed my candidacy on the CA Dem district delegate page. Turns out I actually have ~15 competitors for these 7 seats. My girlfriend is in a similar situation. So much for a low-effort power grab! Try to get in contact with other candidates who seem progressive. If you're one of the friends a candidate has convinced to show up to view for then, on an individual level, it's best to only vote for the friend since they just take the 7 highest vote getters. If you can agree to have all your friends vote for people on a list, you increase your chances dramatically. You'll probably have even more luck cross gender, since voting for a woman won't hurt your male friend and vice versa.
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Lemming posted:Try to get in contact with other candidates who seem progressive. If you're one of the friends a candidate has convinced to show up to view for then, on an individual level, it's best to only vote for the friend since they just take the 7 highest vote getters. If you can agree to have all your friends vote for people on a list, you increase your chances dramatically. You'll probably have even more luck cross gender, since voting for a woman won't hurt your male friend and vice versa. This is good advice and how NKD ended up grabbing about 200 out of the ~1300 seats up for grabs this year.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:There's a lot you can do here. Find his staff too. There's going to be a bunch of people who come to every meeting like this, they're tuned into stuff. Figure out who they are. This is a great place to meet people who are engaged. The folks who go to every meeting like that aren't tuned in, they're the loving kooks, ambitious, or a tracker. Its like attending school board meetings. Unless you intend to run, you probably there to use your 3 minutes to complain about birds on public access tv.
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My Imaginary GF posted:The folks who go to every meeting like that aren't tuned in, they're the loving kooks, ambitious, or a tracker. I guess you've got to get a feeling for the meeting. It's probably a good chunk of normal people, kooks, etc. but there are going to be a few people who know what they're doing, even if they're just the campaign staff or friends of the politician.
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Dems should probably just run as Republicans at this point. It will break up the tribalism and make people think a bit about what positions they want represented instead.
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I went to the Clark County (Las Vegas) Young Democrats club meeting last week. The event organization was kind of a mess--they had only settled on a location two days before the meeting and moved the time from 7 to 5:45 pm on a weekday, guaranteeing anyone outside of college wouldn't make it discounting losers like me. The meeting was just five really tired-looking dudes, sitting in a Coffee Bean, going over the agenda for the club itself. Club elections in January, some collaborations with other Dem clubs in the city, some upcoming seminars and events, etc. There was a real air of uncertainty for the future of the club itself, since there were more seats up for election than people in the room. I offered to take over managing the club Facebook, since I'm planning on moving to LA in a few months and I can't commit to an actual position in the staff. So yeah, kinda depressing! On the upside, the guys all seemed pretty cognizant of the current state of the party, though their focus was more local (as it should be), and there thankfully wasn't any Democrats! style neolib/berniecrat infighting. One guy mentioned another progressive club forming that contained all the outrage I've been looking for, and another said the Asian-Pacific Islander Dem Caucus was active (and has food at their meetings), so those are good leads. The past couple weeks have been kinda tiring with regards to getting involved. None of the other clubs in town appear to be meeting until after the inauguration, and the only big one I know of is a self-congratulatory luncheon with a $125 buy-in. Granted, Nevada turned blue this last cycle so that's worth celebrating, but it only did so by riding the culinary union's wave, and the union made a strategic decision supporting Hills over Bernie. I'm worried this might mean we've set ourselves up for a complacent neolib environment here. I was a delegate at the county convention back in July(?), and that was a bit of a clusterfuck, so I don't have much faith in the sitting establishment. Wrote an email to the millenial DNC elector here to vote Ellison. No response, so I'll probably print it out and mail it after the holidays. I might just go straight to the culinary union HQ next week. I'm a five figgy yospos bicth though so I'm not sure what I can offer but we'll see.
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One thing that might surprise people is that there isn't that much discussion of politics. People generally agree so they focus on business. Get some beers afterwards if you want to rant. Good job on connecting with a local group!
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Trip report: tried to attend a city club meeting (last one was scheduled for ON thanksgiving evening. Somehow, I doubt it was held). Went to the church on MLK blvd and a lady asks me if she can help me since she was walking in. I asked if the meeting was over already (was 15 min late due to traffic) and she was confused; she was there for choir practice and didn't know anything about a Dem meeting. Shocker: I may have been given bad info by the Palm Beach County DP website. I'll try digging up a contact number tomorrow to see what the skinny is.
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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas, celebrated or not - but remember that come January, politics is going to be getting back active! December is kind of a dead month, but regular party meetings resume in many places, and the DNC election is coming up so it's a good time to get involved and a better time to stay involved. If anyone has joined or attended meetings for any Democratic affiliated but not technically Democratic organizations, feel free to talk about them here and what it was like. -- For those of you in MA, I'd like to organize an in person meetup where we can't rant against things like entrenched politics, Hillary Clinton, and spinelessness in the face of the oncoming Republican Terror among "friends". It would be happening... late January, early February, probably somewhere that serves alcohol. -- Finally, anyone who still needs info, or who I missed on getting back to or whatever, please ping me again so I can figure out what's going on. GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 21:19 on Dec 26, 2016 |
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Why should I get involved in a party that rejected my entire generation's choice in favor of The Bad Candidate? gently caress THE DNC gently caress THE RNC I hope ISIS kills a gently caress ton of our representatives including Trump in TYOOL 2017 shalom inshallah god bless happy new year (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Going out tomorrow to vote in a special election to replace my state senator who passed in September from Brain Tumors. Either way it goes Republicans will control the house, senate, and governorship in Iowa for the first time in... longer than my lifespan, anyways. But the special election promises to be low turnout due to the timing (2 days after Christmas, lol) so there is a good chance that the otherwise very safe dem seat is lost on that alone.
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GlyphGryph posted:Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas, celebrated or not - but remember that come January, politics is going to be getting back active! December is kind of a dead month, but regular party meetings resume in many places, and the DNC election is coming up so it's a good time to get involved and a better time to stay involved. I'm in Maine and I emailed my state coordinator, but I haven't heard anything back yet. It was a few weeks ago, but one of those weeks was Christmas break for a lot of people, so I'm not too concerned yet. I just emailed someone from the list that someone posted earlier. Is there anything more specific I should do? BTW, If there's any Maine goons getting together on their own, I'd be interested in a meetup similar to what GlyphGryph described for MA goons.
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Mukaikubo posted:So trying to get involved up here in Buffalo seems to be kind of a shitshow. As far as I can tell, the local organization is the Erie County Democrats. Their website is a facebook feed + a big READY FOR HILLARY banner. Membership- as far as I can tell, which is limited- appears to be gated behind a 52$ yearly fee, which whatever, I've donated, because I got money. When you sign up, you can choose which committees you'd like to be considered for. I put a number of them, and then sent an email to the listed county chair asking for more details about what exactly each committee does and when they meet. I've got nothing back as a reply but "Thanks, look forward to meeting you!" and literally nothing else from the entire county party in the last month (I did all this in the days after the election). The absolute only thing I can find is a christmas party on Monday with a 50$ admission fee. I'm considering going out of sheer desperation that otherwise I may never actually meet any of these people. Did you end up going to that holiday party? I did not have 50 dollars to spend on the offchance I would meet someone who would do something (ECDEMS.COM CHECK: STILL READY FOR HILLARY)
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GlyphGryph posted:Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas, celebrated or not - but remember that come January, politics is going to be getting back active! December is kind of a dead month, but regular party meetings resume in many places, and the DNC election is coming up so it's a good time to get involved and a better time to stay involved. Yeah, I'm just waiting to hear back from Arbitrary at this point--he'd let me know this might take a bit to get back to me. I work slightly odd hours, though, so I'm hoping that these meetings will be on the weekends. It may be quite difficult on weeknights. 
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Next local Democatic Town Committee meeting is planned for "mid-January". Really would prefer a bit more information than that, guys! Also going to be attending my first town meeting on January 9th. Unless I decide to go to the local DSA meeting instead I guess, since I feel like I should at least check them out even if I don't think I'll join them. For anyone interested: quote:Monday, January 9, 2017 Beyond them having some vague association with Mass Alliance, I don't really have any idea what they actually do though GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 21:19 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Apparently Keith has asked that people NOT contact DNC members. So, uh - stop doing that, I guess!
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a good idea considering how pathetic previous democrat attempts at swaying electors were
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GlyphGryph posted:Apparently Keith has asked that people NOT contact DNC members. better delete my post from your website lol
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Zikan posted:better delete my post from your website lol Literally doing it now, haha. Although I'm pretty sure no one is ever going to look at it again.
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Well, the democratic candidate won the special election for the state senate seat yesterday by a 3-1 margin. Republicans still control the house, senate, and gov in Iowa, but the senate margin just got a tad smaller.
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GlyphGryph posted:Apparently Keith has asked that people NOT contact DNC members. Why
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Grondoth posted:Why From what I understand it's a combination of "they got the message" and "you motherfuckers are gonna ruin this for me by sending lovely harassment to the folks whose votes I need".
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Oh. This makes sense.
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GlyphGryph posted:From what I understand it's a combination of "they got the message" and "you motherfuckers are gonna ruin this for me by sending lovely harassment to the folks whose votes I need". Good on Keith. The measure of a leader is not only if he can tell his followers to speak out, but also if he can tell them to shut the hell up.
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