Don’t Support the DCCC
Support local and other interesting candidates. Send DCCC envelopes back with IRAQ –Deal With It! scrawled on them
DCCC Incumbent Protection Message on Iraq
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October 6th, 2005 @ 3:15 am
Don’t Support the DCCC
[Source: The Ruth Group] quoted: Don’t Support the DCCC Support local and other interesting candidates. Send DCCC envelopes back with IRAQ -Deal With It!
October 6th, 2005 @ 9:20 am
My wife long ago adopted the practice of sending all junk mail solicitations with prepaid return envelopes back empty. Adding a message is a good touch I feel sure she will want to adopt.
October 6th, 2005 @ 10:01 am
WILL:
Thanks for adding your editorial ACTION comment:
“Support local and other interesting candidates. Send DCCC envelopes back with IRAQ –Deal With It! scrawled on them”
You may have noticed in at least several of my blog comments, I have strongly advocated support for local grassroots Progressives, and railed against the national Democratic Party.
What Bill Sims suggested, is what has been my practice regularly,which is to open the letters, refuse any contribution, tell them I only donate locally, until they say in BOLD LETTERS IN THEIR SOLICITATION THAT THEY STAND FOR ALL OF THE THREE FOLLOWING: (1) A foreign policy that removes our troops, bases, and U.S./corporate ownership of assets from Iraq; (2.) Public ownership of the means for a fair and auditable, inclusive election process in the U.S.; (3.) Free media time for candidates and issues on all licensed airwaves, along with reinstatement of the fair comment rule. (This latter would automatically take the big money out of politics because most of the money goes for airtime, especially TV time.)
These seem to me like core elements which we need for effective and responsive governance, and for which the Democrats have been, and continue to be, complicit in undermining.
Finally, let me commend you on this ACTION item. The other day you asked for people to start putting their thoughts on the blog:
“p.s. We sure would like it if you, our faithful readers, mosied on over to the mother of all blogs at http://www.ruthgroup.org and while reading, dropped in a comment or two. How are we ever going to sell this thing to FOX or CNN if we don’t boost our traffic? Never mind them, how are we going to face our Maker when S/He asks about it? “Uh huh, so you got how many comments a day….?”
I took this as an invitation to also comment on the role of the blog. I think we can create more action items like yours, and have a place for discussion, with suggestions. Your action item is certainly a good purpose. But I have other ideas, which I would explain, should you create a place to air these creative conversations. Bill Sims seems to have some ideas, as well. There must be some way that we can use the blog to direct co-ordinated and focused actions in identifiable directions, including corporate leaders, editorial writers, local politicians. The actions can be critical, or invite reform, or seek collaboration.