Wisconsin

ewagner

(18,964 posts) Sat Apr 9, 2016, 12:03 PM Apr 2016

Thoughts and a DESPERATE APPEAL!

The Sanders people did something wonderful in Wisconsin and I am absolutely in support of what Sanders represents to the Democratic Party and its future.

Here's the thought I want to discuss and kick around with you...

What we are witnessing nation-wide is a Democratic Party leadership that is pretty much out-of-touch with its roots. Nowhere is that more true than in Wisconsin. The primary results showed that in spades!

No matter who ends up with the nomination, the State Party will STILL HAVE NO "COURT HOUSE TO WHITE HOUSE STATEGY.

We are "blessed" with Rebecca Bradley because there was no effort on the part of the state party to communicate with both the Hillary Camp and the Sanders Camp to ask them to drag the "down ticket" races with them...(something like 15% of Bernie's voters voted for Bradley or didn't vote at all in the supreme court race).. locally several good democrats failed to get elected because nobody endorsed them...

Those "down ticket" races are important and have more impact on our state and our local government than the President alone ever will.

My DESPERATE PLEA IS THIS:

No matter which camp you fall in now, please, please please drag locals into the mix for your November vote...

In Wisconsin, we can take back the State Senate...
In Wisconsin, we can put a huge dent in the veto-proof majority of Republicans in the Assembly....

We're stuck with Bradley for 10 years because we were too caught up in the passions of the Presidential Primary race to see the big picture...

If the State Party is too myopic to see the big picture then we must take it into our own hands...please...keep thinking COURTHOUSE TO WHITE HOUSE and include it as a major part of the November Campaign strategy.

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Thoughts and a DESPERATE APPEAL! (Original Post) ewagner Apr 2016 OP

Got a hunch your Wellstone ruled Apr 2016 #1

welcome to the coordinatedf campaign concept dembotoz Apr 2016 #2

In the first Obama campaign ewagner Apr 2016 #3

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Got a hunch your

Reply to ewagner (Original post)

Sat Apr 9, 2016, 12:45 PM

Apr 2016

State Party coffers are dry and there wasn't money to stave off the last minute Ad buys by Buckley. This has been the Strategy of the GOP since the demise of Tom Daschel in his last reelection bid,that is to do a Broadside pull out insert in the Major Sunday Papers the Sunday of Election Week.

dembotoz

(16,820 posts)

2. welcome to the coordinatedf campaign concept

Reply to ewagner (Original post)

Sun Apr 10, 2016, 09:14 AM

Apr 2016

if you do not pay you do not play

i actually got thrown out of the obama office in my county both elections because i had the gall to want them to have local candidate lit and have them involved in events.....
at one event held at the office the bastards introduced and promoted candidates from a nearby county but refused to introduce the candidate who would have represented the folks where the office was....oh and by the way i was county co chair at the time

ewagner

(18,964 posts)

3. In the first Obama campaign

Reply to dembotoz (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:46 AM

Apr 2016

The local Obama rep made sure she networked with the local yokels...in the second, another Obama rep ...well ...not so much...

It doesn't do Democrats much good if we isolate a leader at the top of the ticket (Governor or President) and leave the assembly, senate, county board, city council and frickin' school board in the hands of the teahadists!!!!

My blood pressure is rising as I type!!!

on edit.....

I was raised in Florida where the Republicans were the liberals (or at least pretended to be until Nixon' "Southern Strategy) and I chaired a campus Young Republican's Club for two years...we put instant crowds out for all candidates when they asked us...we did literature drops strategically EVERY DAMNED WEEKEND (and had fantastic Saturday afternoon parties down by the lake afterwards...whew!) but the lit drops contained the lit for ALL candidates running in that district, ward, precinct etc...we left NO ONE BEHIND! (yeah there was an occasional idiot in there..but we have that problem too.)

I attended Republican Campaign management schools...until I learned how they had no use for poor people...but I know their techniques and although I firmly rejected them and left the party, the techniques for mobilizing masses is effective and it works...and it here's the sick thing...those techniques work no matter what party label you put on them.

end of rant

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