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Instant Sunrise posted:Well I put my name in the hat for my assembly district. So far only one other person has declared her candidacy so we'll see how it goes. 
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If you're in California and you're trying to be an assembly district delegate, it sounds like it'd be really useful to try to get into contact with one of your local clubs. Beyond bringing your friends to vote for you, they might have a slate of delegates they tell people to vote for. Try to get in on that, if it exists. I think you'll be way more likely to be successful than if you're on your own. Assuming there are more than 14 candidates that is.
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Dec 8, 2016 08:48
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Vox Nihili posted:My district appears to have a total of five candidates, what the hell? Supposedly they are electing 14 (7 men and 7 women). They might not have finished updating the page yet, it's manually done and slow. I sent mine in a day and a half ago and I'm still not up. It's also possible not enough people will sign up at all, so you should put your name in and win probably!
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Dec 8, 2016 19:00
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I think it's actually 2 more, and there's only about 300 total instead of 3,000, so you are More Powerful
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Dec 8, 2016 19:12
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I'm in California, Alameda County.
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Dec 11, 2016 20:57
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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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Dec 22, 2016 05:34
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jarofpiss posted:become precinct chairs in your districts, run socialists as local candidates for small/unopposed positions, build connections and help mobilize people to vote in these small things because turnout is extremely small a lot of times. don't waste time helping shitbag bad dems just because they have a D next to their name. only work with the dem party if you think you can get something out of it because it's a really terrible thing full of terrible people generally speaking. help get real progressives elected and help kick bad dems the gently caress out of office. If enough people showed up you could very easily take over the Democratic party from within. It means you have to get involved in non-election years though. There are so few people involved and they only try to recruit people to show up to phone bank + knock on doors. The party is extremely vulnerable to a bunch of motivated leftists showing up.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:37
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Quoting myself from other thread Lemming posted:Yo if anybody happens to be in California, there are elections for assembly district delegates happening tomorrow and Sunday. Use http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov to check what assembly district you're in, then go to http://www.cadem.org/our-party/adem/assembly-district-meetings and click your district (male or female is fine) to see when/where it is. Assembly district delegates get to vote in state level conventions and get to choose positions on things and candidates for different races, and do make a district.
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Jan 7, 2017 07:29
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Balls. I lost by 4 votes, I was the second runner up on mine (also ADEM election in California). On the plus side, the slate I put together got 5 people elected and 2 runner ups. We lost the e-board by one vote. I'm going to see if I can leverage my runner up ness into a delegate appointment from one of the local people who have them It's crazy though, we kicked some people off the board endorsed by the local establishment with our outsider slate, and the runner up on the women's side lost by literally one vote. You can absolutely make a huge difference by showing up
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Jan 8, 2017 05:36
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Grondoth posted:I feel like I'm fuckin' up, but I haven't seen anything I can get involved with until like the 23rd of january out here in wny. There's a $500 per person dinner tonight, but I don't have 500 bucks to spend on that I dunno where you happen to be, but out in California the best way to get involved is in local democratic clubs. For example, I went to my State, California, http://www.cadem.org/, found the county listing, http://www.cadem.org/our-party/our-county-committees, went to my county, http://acdems.org/, then went to their club page, http://acdems.org/clubs/. From there you can check the websites, or make some calls or send some emails. There should be something roughly equivalent wherever you are, although since some places are much better organized than others, you truly might be SOL.
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Grondoth posted:http://ecdems.com/ this is my county's webpage. I learned about the free event on the 23rd from their facebook. Lol, jesus, what a useless pile. From some quick googling, maybe try here? http://www.wnyprogress.org/index.html There's a slightly earlier meeting, at least. Maybe send someone there an email
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Jan 10, 2017 01:26
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Aurubin posted:I'm of the opinion that most of the
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Jan 10, 2017 01:34
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HorseRenoir posted:I think that 99% of the time it's just apathy and inertia, from old establishment Dems in districts either too blue to be challenged in or too red to have a chance in, and don't put in the effort to make things more accessible because new blood is hard to come by in the first place. I'm really hopeful that the success in the CA elections can be repeated elsewhere because those turnout numbers were huge; hundreds of people who don't usually participate in local politics suddenly showed up to vote for outsider candidates and shook things up immediately. Most American politicians depend on political apathy/inertia and a sudden influx of new blood can change things very quickly. I think it's not entirely just apathy. I don't think people are necessarily thinking about it like a scheme, but the biggest threat to someone entrenched within the party is people participating at the party level, rather than just showing up to volunteer/phone bank/knock on doors/whatever. Getting increased membership in clubs and showing up to county meetings is the only way they get knocked out of place, so I'm guessing trying to get people to show up to those isn't a huge priority for them. It's what makes them weak, though.
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Jan 10, 2017 03:10
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Martin Random posted:Didn't think I'd ever register democrat. Changed my mind, registered on site, and then roused enough of my non-democrat friends to put our hardcore labor rights socialist genuine motherfucker as the top vote getter. Garbage choices for the executive roles, so all my friends just left that stuff blank and bullet voted for the hardcore folks who we personally know. It was hard and confusing, so the way we figured it out was that there was only one slate that had our man, and we refused all other slates lacking that name, so we got to vote for the right people, I think. Hell yeah. The Democrats as a party are absurdly way weaker than they appear, it's pretty stunning how much you can accomplish by showing up. Nice work.
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Jan 10, 2017 04:58
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HorseRenoir posted:Speaking of posts like these, is there a good place to find news on local Dem party elections like this? I've been searching and haven't found much outside of a few states, and I'm not sure if that's due to a lack of organization or if the elections haven't happened yet. The next month or so is going to be critical for getting progressives inside the Dems' internal power structures and it would be nice to know where we stand as a whole. It's reeally hard to find this stuff out yourself. Your best bet is to try to physically show up somewhere and try to find out from people who know.
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Jan 12, 2017 01:00
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yellowyams posted:my state is gerrymandered to hell and back and my senators are republican, what the gently caress can i do to get dems to stop loving over their constituents? are calls just not working? are they not getting enough? there's literally a huge visible resistance fully prepared to back them in opposing trump and his garbage cabinet but several of them keep playing along. I dunno where you are, but Democrats don't give a gently caress about red states. There's a good chance the Democrats in charge could easily be toppled internally if more people got involved with the party, because they've probably got nothing but inertia keeping them together. Try to find your state website, it should have some sort of listing of more local party structure, like counties or whatever. Try to get involved with any of those that you can.
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Jan 25, 2017 00:02
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MyLoathsomeCowboy posted:Went to the Nevada Clark County Dem Central Committee meeting last night, at the behest of one of the Bernie superdelegates here in town. The crowd was pretty huge, at with least 300 people, almost a third of which were younger bernouts. You could tell the existing members were a little disconcerted. That kicks rear end
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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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Feb 23, 2017 09:22
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I'm at the California state Dem convention and Tom Perez is yelling right now
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May 20, 2017 02:29
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reignonyourparade posted:Good yelling or bad yelling. It was good yelling, he was saying things like health care for all. The big issue happening right now in ca is the single payer bill so that was good to hear He's not an incredible speaker tho
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May 20, 2017 04:23
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I'm hoping to bump into my state Senate representative at some point so I can throw a tomato at him
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May 20, 2017 06:56
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Candidates just finished their speeches, I think it's gonna be close for state chair between Kimberly Ellis and Eric Bauman (Kim is progressive/Bernie, Eric establishment). Lots of supporters on either side, Kim's supporters definitely louder and more enthusiastic but numbers were definitely close
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May 20, 2017 23:29
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Thomas Frank is speaking to the progressive caucus right now and he is a god drat genius
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May 21, 2017 05:21
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Kimberly Ellis lost, throw every Democrat into the dumpster
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1493 to 1431. He only won because the delegate spread is 33% elected 33% appointed by party officials 33% appointed by elected/nominates and he still barely won. It was also blatantly clear on the floor who had the support, it was literally just the establishment choosing. Edit: and the spread was elected delegates overwhelming went for Kimberly, obviously
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