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DNC contact info

by Jerome Armstrong, Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 12:06:26 PM EST

Draft Howard Dean has the mailing addresses many of the DNC members. Also, you can check out your online state party websites for contact info that might include phone numbers and email addresses. A lot of these people are also probably listed in the phonebook.

As someone else posted, many of the 440 current DNC members will face re-election as their respective state Dem organizations reorganize this winter, in advance of DNC meeting in DC the first week of February '05, when the Chair will be selected. Further, many of the state committee persons who will vote for the re-election or new member will first face re-election within their local (county/parish/district/etc) Democratic organizations.

This is a ground game, each in their own state. Get together, figure out tactics, let's go forward.

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Run people for delegate slots? (none / 0)

Is that feasible?

by Teaser on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 11:19:47 AM EST

Is it really a "draft"? (none / 0)

Doesn't Dean want to do it? If so, why do we need to "draft" him?

by alhill on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 11:20:15 AM EST

How does a DNC member (none / 0)

get themselves in a position to vote? I know a couple of DNC members and there's a vacancy for a voting position in here in California....

by ksh on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 11:34:17 AM EST

I know this won't be popular (none / 0)

I really had my hopes set on a woman as DNC chair. It will reinforce the "mother" approach which so many have written about. But I believe that approach will be quite successful in '06 and '08. The Gov. of Michigan, I think, would be an EXCELLENT choice.

by SorenSorenson on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 11:47:58 AM EST

I'm surprised... (none / 0)

that they don't see the DNC chair as a way to keep Dean out of the way a little. I mean, c'mon, who gets all the glory in the election season, the candidates or the chair? Do they think that Dean and his leagion of supporters is going to magically disappear before 2008? Unless Dean has something to occupy his time, he is going to be a big story in the pre-primary season then.

by lutton on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 01:00:09 PM EST

Re: I'm surprised... (none / 0)

So this is great; if he doesn't get elected chair, then "they" are trying to keep "us" out of the way. And if he does get elected Chair, "they" were only trying to deny "us" "our" candidate ....

Folks, its great if you want to mount a "grass roots" campaign for DNC chair, but lets not do this at the expense of building a party that can win elections.

by desmoulins on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 01:36:06 PM EST
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I'm writing letters to my California delegates (none / 0)

from work. Some of the other questions are intriguing. Is there any transparancy to the process? Are there any open meetings? Is there any record of the meeting and/or prior meetings?

In a nutshell, aside from writing letters, are there any additional steps a citizen can take to influence this process? It looks like an aristocratic insider game played by annointed lap dogs of the power structure.

The California delegates I recognize are Art Torres, Willie Brown and Maxine Waters. Christine Pelosi jumps out as an obvious patronage appointee. Are these people primarily stooges for various vested interests or consituencies in the party?

by Gary Boatwright on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 02:02:41 PM EST

I'll write to my delegates (none / 0)

Dean isn't necessarily the perfect fit, but he's the only person who would try to shake up the status quo the way it needs to be shaken (save for maybe Simon Rosenberg). Vilsack, Barnes, Shaheen, Ickes,... they all represent the same old thing.

by Muboshgu on Tue Nov 16, 2004 at 05:47:41 PM EST

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