MoveOn to Democratic Party: 'We Own It'

MoveOn to Democratic Party: 'We Own It'

Thu Dec 9, 6:37 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_el_ge/democrats_critics
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back."



A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats.


"For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser. "But we can't afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers."


Under McAuliffe's leadership, the message said, the party coddled the same corporate donors that fund Republicans to bring in money at the expense of vision and integrity.


"In the last year, grass-roots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive," the message continued. "Now it's our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

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"Call me crazy, but I think the fact that for the first time in party history we outraised the Republicans, and did so primarily through grass-roots fund raising is something to be proud of," Cabrera said.

That's it. That has to be our message. We can not accept victim-hood and we can not allow anyone to treat us that way.

I'm proud of what I stand for!

I will be sending you an Xmas present in the next few weeks.

Looks like they received reminder. :-)

Two consecutive losing elections have demonstrated that. The only thing that really held us together was the leadership of Dean and the other "anti-war" Dems. We need them to take the leadership now and get rid of the Republican wannabes that currently dominate this party. Horrible to say because I did not support Nader. He was right. These two parties do seem to have the same basic agenda. At least there does not seem to be enough of a difference for the Democratic Party leadership to put up a real fight. In spite of telling us that "this was the most important election of our lifetime". If they really think that why are they rolling over at the result?

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1058822

Thanks!

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