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Really valuable - great issue to organize around (none / 0)

It would be very transofrmational if we could have access to all of this information about who can attend, and all of the W questions about the Democratic Party meetings.

It seems clear that some embedded people do not want the access to be as open to those of us who do want change in the party, this probably includes those in the party infrastructure and in the media which does such a rotten job of covering the democratic party.

As in other mydd coverage today, I believe the Washington DC Democratic Party and office holders are one faction at the root of those who are killing this party, they muct be deposed.

by leschwartz on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 04:08:01 PM EST

Re: Really valuable (none / 0)

I would have assumed the same thing at first, about the party officers inside the Beltway.  But I have to reiterate what Elena mentioned: the DNC national organization was extremely helpful, indeed instrumental, in opening up the caucus to the grassroots.  D.C. DNC employees were in a delicate position, because they have to stay neutral in the race and it was quite obvious that the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file who wanted to attend were behind Dean (to other candidates who may have felt this is "unfair," I call bullshit because the Dean campaign played no role in organizing rank-and-file to attend, Dean just happens to be more inspirational than the rest of the field and there's nothing "unfair" about that), but instead of going the easy and expeditious route of telling us there's nothing they could do about it, they went with principle and attempted to resolve the situation in favor of openness and transparency.  It's important to give credit where credit is due, and in this case, I give a lot of credit to McAuliffe's staff.  The problem here was at the state level (I should also mention that the state parties WERE NOT blocking access in the West, so this is really evidence of a problem at the state level in a particular region, though I suspect it's not limited to the Northeast).
by Woodhouse on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 04:29:46 PM EST
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