The "1" rating is for piling macho crap onto the end of a post shilling the PIRG/GCI party line. I'm sure you're a really good organizer, Mr. Hurowitz (in all honesty, the PIRG lifers I meet always are), but you're apparently better at real grassroots than at astroturf.
I went on from working GCI busted-ass 2004 campaign--and even trying to work for them in 2005, because I think their professed mission is laudable--to continuing to work long hours on Democratic campaigns. I'm currently managing a targeted legislative race in Oregon, and I'll put my work ethic up against anyone's. Am I a sissy because I think GCI ran a stupid and ill-conceived campaign? Or am I just a few barfights away from attaining that sweet Doug Phelps wisdom?