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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sun May 12, 2013, 10:08 AM May 2013

Organizing for Action struggles to move the needle on Obama’s agenda

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: May 11

President Obama’s supporters are discovering that winning a national election is easier than winning over Congress.

Organizing for Action, an advocacy group born from the remnants of Obama’s victorious 2012 reelection campaign, has struggled in its attempts to help the president push through legislation on the economy, guns and other issues central to his second-term agenda.

The fledgling nonprofit group has spent its first four months staging rallies and generating local news coverage in an unsuccessful effort to get the Senate to strengthen background checks for gun sales.

It deployed technological efforts familiar from the 2012 campaign, collecting 1.4 million signatures on a gun-control petition delivered to Capitol Hill last week and producing a widely viewed Internet video mocking congressional Republicans for questioning humans’ contribution to climate change.

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Organizing for Action struggles to move the needle on Obama’s agenda (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP

OFA is way too right wing and controlling for me to work with. They hate local groups that do things Bluenorthwest May 2013 #1

Bluenorthwest

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1. OFA is way too right wing and controlling for me to work with. They hate local groups that do things

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Sun May 12, 2013, 10:29 AM

May 2013

spew venom at those who help the poor or sick 'fuck that, we pay our taxes that's plenty' they say much like the Republicans who are a tad more to the right than they are.
OFA spent years opposing equality for LGBT people, and the organization is still packed with hate mongers who never said they were sorry. Rally with some group that says 'gays are not Sanctified and fuck Occupy'? I think not.
And what does OFA seek? Chained CPI, chained populace, forced dogma for all, name calling and bipartisanship. They love the GOP MUCH more than they like liberals or gay people.

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