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0rganism

(23,937 posts) Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:19 PM Jan 2017

2018 elections...

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2018 elections... (Original Post) 0rganism Jan 2017 OP

we need to stop all the hand wringing and recruit the liberal versions of the Koch Brothers beachbum bob Jan 2017 #1

you'll have to pardon me if my hands keep wringing 0rganism Jan 2017 #5

What we need is a credible populist movement within our party with leaders to match. Motown_Johnny Jan 2017 #2

we need to work on candidate recruitment and infrastructure building NOW crazycatlady Jan 2017 #3

agreed, also need infrastructure to support voter registration & voter ID compliance 0rganism Jan 2017 #4

In one state I worked in crazycatlady Jan 2017 #6

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

1. we need to stop all the hand wringing and recruit the liberal versions of the Koch Brothers

Reply to 0rganism (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:29 PM

Jan 2017

to fund retaking of congress in 2018...WE outnumber them...but as we have seen if WE DON'T get OFF OUR ASSES TO VOTE, they win...its OUR FRICKEN FAULT for 2016 between those who wouldn;t vote or voted 3rd party knowing what a trump win would produce....stop the hand wringing ......

0rganism

(23,937 posts)

5. you'll have to pardon me if my hands keep wringing

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:43 PM

Jan 2017

see i have MS and we're about to get an AG who's primed to crack down on one of the medicines i use to keep my body from shaking uncontrollably

it's not that i want to wring my hands, but sometimes the world doesn't give me a whole lot of choice in the matter

by the way, stress aggravates my MS. it's been acting up a lot lately as the nation gets wrecked from the inside.

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)

2. What we need is a credible populist movement within our party with leaders to match.

Reply to 0rganism (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:32 PM

Jan 2017

Populism wins, Corporatism loses. This is a good thing, so long as we are on the right side of the fight.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)

3. we need to work on candidate recruitment and infrastructure building NOW

Reply to 0rganism (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:04 PM

Jan 2017

This starts with running candidates in every contested 2017 election starting with school boards.

0rganism

(23,937 posts)

4. agreed, also need infrastructure to support voter registration & voter ID compliance

Reply to crazycatlady (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 06:36 PM

Jan 2017

won't help to run candidates if the people who would want to vote for them are prevented from doing so

we need a way to keep people informed of the various ID requirements the GOPers are about to drop on us from on high, and have ways to help those voters obtain the ID they need to exercise their franchise

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)

6. In one state I worked in

Reply to 0rganism (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 29, 2017, 01:51 PM

Jan 2017

NAACP put out an infographic on the voter ID law and when I was registering people to vote, I had them available at the table. I showed it to all the new registrants and made sure they had the proper ID.

Such infographics/flyers need to be widespread. Someone also needs to organize trips to DMV offices, etc.

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