Reply #10: That's being a little harsh VelmaD

[sonias]

"I've been up close and personal with a too many poorly run Austin events to trust anyone from down here to run anything."

You just took a swipe at everyone in Austin! You can't totally discount the fact that we are growing our party in Travis. Hell it's even spilling over into Hayes county. It doesn't matter if you give Glen any credit for it or not. I agree that the team of volunteers that worked the coordinated campaign and the steering committee for Democracy for Texas did the heavy lifting for both the coordinated campaign and DemocracyFest. Glen didn't have to do anything at the event since they worked all the details through the DemoFest steering committee, of which Steve Voytowich was a member. I worked for Steve too at that event.

The person who calls the team together is the strength of the effort because they choose the right volunteers to get the job done. Maybe we're a bunch of roll up our sleeves crazy people here, but we get the job done. That's why Steve was recognized as having the best working crew.

Again my point is that you don't need a person who wants to micromanage everything. You want someone who delegates well. Picks good people and lets them do their job.

Glen's real strength is his massive database and when he puts out a call for volunteers to do something like the voter registration drive - it gets done. Heck I don't care who calls us to work, as long as someone is at least coordinating that effort. I don't know how Glen was chosen to head up the coordinated campaign, but we did a hell of a job with that effort. There were people working in Glen's office until 2-3 a.m. in the morning. If he has people that committed to put in that kind of effort, you can't just throw that away.

Who else do you have in mind now that everyone in Austin is automatically disqualified?

Sonia