50-State Strategy ? Uhmmm....

While it looks good in email ...Ahh-roo-gah Gov Dean and National Dems...I'm verklempt about my time and money right now... (especiallythattheDNCpulledoutofVirginiain04tothrowbiggiebuckstoOhioandFlorida)...

Virginia needs BIGGerBIGGIE bucks to support Jim Webb's campaign to defeat "Sweet Nectar of Liberty's" George Allen. Also, in my "low on the DNC radar" District, VA-02, to kick Thelma "lips firmly planted on Bush's Ass" Drakes bigger ASS outta here.

Sorry, I don't have an extra second or dime to spend nationally right now. Not that there's anything wrong with that....I just CAN'T. I'd like to keep my nickels and dimes in Virginia for the next 5 months.

:patriot:

(especiallythattheDNCpulledoutofVirginiain04tothrowbiggiebuckstoOhioandFlorida)

This is the new DNC and it looks good beyond email. If you don't have the money, you don't have the money, but please hold back on the negativity.

Anybody who does have the money and wants to support the 50-State Strategy:

https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/peoplecount

5424 donors :kick: looking to 7500

Thank you.

I want to keep it in Virginia ! I want to keep it in Virginia !

:D

:shrug:

https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/peoplecount

Just kiddin :D

...where every single person matters as much as the next, where each one of us has the power to take our future into our own hands. Some people don't understand it, and some people don't believe it will work. But we believe in the extraordinary potential of millions of Americans united in common cause to make our country better.

Not.In.Virginia.2004 ! The DNC BROKE MY HEART in '04...forgedditaboutit...I'll do it my way :hi:

At least my repuke husband gets mail from the RNC annointing him a Pioneer, or some stupid shit like that....if he donates 5k...:shrug:

From the letter from Dean:

"It boils down to this: participation politics. We're building an entirely new kind of political party -- one where every single person matters as much as the next, where each one of us has the power to take our future into our own hands. It's a new way of operating, but we know it will work because we believe in the extraordinary potential of millions of Americans united in common cause to make our country better."

Let me throw this to:
http://oneamericacommittee.com/action/raise-the-states/

Make sense ?

about what you are saying. They are not even similar things.

:hi:

You are not going to support DNC because of Edwards? Hmmm..mmm.

He represents the armed forces. Virginia has an open primary. Look at where he won the election: Fredericksburg north through Fairfax. That area revolves around Quantico and Ft. Belvior. That's also the area that carried Tim Kaine to victory. Webb will probably do better than the average Democrat in Virginia Beach (home to Jerry Falwell and a large Naval base).

I'm all for Jim Webb, have been since before he ever announced. I'm thrilled that he won the primary.

Support the DNC or support your local party/candidate. I can't see how anyone can find fault with your logic.

Good luck to Virginia!

:thumbsup:

:hi: I'm dancing as fast as I can. Not that there's anything wrong with the DNC, but most grass/netroots need to focus in their own backyards !

That is the irony in some of your comments that I'm reacting to. Dean is acting to make sure that the National Democratic Party does not stay beholden to a thin strata of large donors who then call the shots over who, where, and what the National Democratic Party supports, over the heads of all the active grass roots Party members involved in the Democratic Party at the local and State level. Dean is acting to make sure the Democratic Party provides resources to Democrats in every State, so that Democrats in every State can make their own priorities over what use of resources will be most effective in their own back yards, and not have to go begging to the big boys inside the beltway for crumbs if they weren't blessed with the right connections.

You don't have to make giving money to Dean's 50 State program your personal priority, money is scarcer than are places where it is needed. Give your money to whoever, wherever you want, and bless you for giving money to Democrats who you believe in. But don't saddle Howard Dean's effort with your anger over the DNC in 2004. If you don't like the way the DNC played 2004 consider this: If enough people refuse to support Dean with this type of 50 State drive, you can expect to find the same bunch of power players who shoveled all of the DNC's resources to their own hand picked candidates and States last time to regain control of the DNC. That is what will get us more repeat performances of 2004 type behavior in the future, a failure to support Dean now.

You should definately donate to local campaigns directly, but national resources are going to be put where they have the most chance for impact. The Virginia Senate is a second-tier race, and VA-02 is barely a third-tier race.

Webb has to PROVE he can fund-raise on his own, but if he proves it this race will get national attention.

Webb has a son who is being deployed to Iraq in the fall, and if the DNC doesn't jump all over this fact and get involved in a very big way it will surprise me.

But Jim Webb has a very uphill battle to work against George Allen. I'd rather focus our resources in MO, MT, OH, PA, RI, and TN (not to mention NJ, WA, and MD) then worry about VA.

You care enough to pitch in - in a race that IS important to us as a party. Nothing wrong about that, ever.

:thumbsup:

In the 60's and 70's we had large congressional majorities because we got people elected places like Idaho, Utah, Nebraska, South Dakota, Oaklahoma, Indiana, etc. After Raygun took over, the abandonment of these states by Democrats began and accelerated during the 90's. By 2000 we were basically confined to our blue states and swing states to pick up seats in congress. We need a 50 state strategy so that we can get senators and congressmen elected in these states again if we ever want to enact a progressive agenda.

On the other hand, you should definately donate your money where you you feel that it will go to the best use. But Howard Dean is definately thinking ahead with the 50 state strategy.

I know Wisconsin does.

I suppose the DNC website might be able to tell you.