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just curious (none / 0)

when you were told you'd be shut out, did you try to get in touch with any of the DNC chair candidates' offices?  I am wondering if they were/would have been any more helpful in applying leverage.
by emptypockets on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 02:05:03 PM EST

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To my knowledge, we didn't.   I didn't.  I wonder if it would have been appropriate to have done that.  I also wonder, as they were campaigning, if they (ironically) would have been hesitant to challenge decisions so directly.  Is that too cynical?

by Elena on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 03:10:49 PM EST
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I'm the Leighton that Elena mentioned in the diary.  We didn't try to get in touch with any of the candidates for help, and the reason is that we didn't wish to appear to be forcing our way into the meeting on behalf of any particular candidate.  And that was entirely true: Driving Votes as an organization endorsed Dean very early in the process, but we were very careful not to mention that in our messaging inviting people to attend (save for when talking to DFA members) because we didn't want anybody who supported another candidate to feel as if they weren't welcome to join our contingency.  We even removed mention of Dean from our website for the days leading up to the meeting, so that nobody would think that the reason we were organizing people to attend was to boost Dean's standing, which it emphatically was not.  I suspect that even if we had appealed for help from the candidates, we wouldn't have gotten it, because they, too, were protective of the integrity of the process and I imagine would have been reluctant to appear to be trying to put together a cheerleading squad.  Anyhow, I think that the state party personnel were fearful that by opening up the caucus, they would turn the event into a spirit rally, which was a) very condescending -- at times it felt like the party leadership regards the grassroots as a bunch of children, and b) completely contradicted by the evidence, since the Sacramento caucus was open and by all reports went very smoothly.  And for the record, I understand that the Orlando meeting was nothing close to the "circus" we were being told it had become.
by Woodhouse on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 04:38:20 PM EST
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Re: just curious (none / 0)

"And for the record, I understand that the Orlando meeting was nothing close to the "circus" we were being told it had become."

Although, Matt and I did go onto a wicked bungee vertical slingshot that was near our hotel.

by Jerome Armstrong on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 06:05:48 PM EST
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Thanks from a Rosenberg supporter... (none / 0)

I am a Rosenberg supporter and you DV folks made me feel plenty welcome.

I was surprised though to find that there weren't a ton of people driving cross state/coutnry to see Tim Roemer speak. Shocking. Don't they know that he's "strong"?

Future Majority / Young Philly Politics
by Alex Urevick on Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 09:13:56 AM EST
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