[PAA-Discuss] Precinct Workers Against-Pro-War Dems
zappa2004
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Mon May 28 16:55:36 EDT 2007
and Lampson.
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I looked over the list of who voted for this and the Democratic traitors
in Texas are: Gene Green, Sylvestre Reyes and Ruben Hinojosa.
On 5/28/07, zappa2004 <zappa2004 at earthlink.net> wrote:
May 26, 2007 at 20:49:33
Hit Those Democratic Betrayers on HR 2206 Where They Live
by Barbara Ellis Page 1 of 1 page(s)
http://www.opednews.com
What to do with the betrayal Thursday of Congressional Democrats (90 in
the House; 37 in the Senate) who voted to pass the Iraq Supplemental
II-"giving the Bushies another blank cheque to continue their oil war to
colonize Iraq (Johnson is still incapacitated; Schumer was in NY being
treated for Lyme's disease).
I've read fury-filled blogs, messages from John Edwards. And listened to
today's enraged listeners/hosts on Air America. Some are talking about
quitting the Democratic party and politics altogether. Some say they're
going to join the Green party or Independents-"or even the Republicans
("might as well because they still control Congress"). Many like me have
been tossing any pitch for contributions to the Democratic National
Committee, both the House and Senate Democratic party's campaigns, and this
week, Ted Kennedy's pitch for the Committee for a Democratic Majority.-
But it's been the Edwards and Kucinich campaigners on their websites and
organizations such as United for Peace and Justice that urge far different
action to get the attention of those gutless- wonders we worked to get
re-elected and who are terrified of Cheney, Rove, Bush, the Republican
National Committee, and our own traitor, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the voice of the
Democratic Leadership; Council and all the big lobbying donors who are
moving their money to the Democratic National Committee.- Every last
Congressional Dem who voted for the Supplemental knows full well that the
Bushies/Pentagon have plenty of- tide-over money to take up the funding
slack. And, second, that they will pull the kids out of Iraq rather than run
short of materiél.-
Less than an hour after the Senate roll call was announced, Edwards
contacted all of his supporters about this "serious blow." He's been on the
hustings for months saying that the first Supplemental should have been sent
back repeatedly until the public realized it was Bush who was flouting the
voting public's demand an immediate deployment out of Iraq. Said he: "After
tonight, one thing is now perfectly clear: No one else is going to end this
war for us. Bush will not listen. Congress will not fight. There's no one
left to lead the country now but we the people." He reminded us that we
enraged Dems "don't have the luxury of getting discouraged." And to think of
ways to change what just happened in that cave-in vote that gave the
Administration its blood money.
In talking to my cohorts at Portland's South Side DFA MeetUp group, two
ideas turned up to hit those- "aye"-voting Democrats where they live-"aside
from giving Rahm Emanuel the same kind of pounding that ultimately
frightened Pelosi, Clinton, and Obama into voting against HR 2206.
1) A- Precinct Worker Strike in the U.S. from July-August This
Year:-Considering that grass-roots Dems probably make up only 3% of party
contributors, they'll never be concerned if we threaten to close the purse.
But they will be monumentally concerned if precinct workers strike chiefly
refusing to canvass or work phone banks.- In our county, 66% of the
districts have no precinct workers at all; a strike of even half of the
remainder would be devastating to the local Democratic party organization.
And if done all over the state, we certainly can literally "scare up
Congressional votes" on Part II of the September Supplemental.
The threat in July/August:-No canvassing/phonebanking-"except for each
person's- individual candidate. Until the primaries are over. And then if
the leadership is still "weak-tea", in the second session of Congress,
threaten not to lift a finger for the presidential election from
September-October 2008. Especially for Congressional candidates who passed
HR 2206.-
The black list of Thursday's betrayers can be found on the following
URL:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rollcallvotes.html
Party leaders in state and national organizations take precinct workers
for granted-"always-"for the grunt work of an election campaign. They
desperately need worker-bees, as those of us in the trenches know so well.
Thousands of us who worked to get that Dem majority last November feel
particularly outraged, hopefully enough to turn on the spineless legislators
and presidential candidates who, like those in other countries, do fight
when election fraud is apparent. We'll never forgive Kerry, a candidate
forced on us by the DLC with the slogan "he's electable," who wiped his
hands of us and the campaign the morning after the 2004 election was stolen
once again by electronic machine fraud in Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina,
Florida, and New Mexico.-
With so many primaries rearranged now to the first of the year and Part
II of the Supplemental coming due for a vote in September (when Bush reports
that things are coming right along on at least one benchmark), the time to
strike fear in the hearts of these Democratic traitors probably should begin
July 4. Let's scare the hell out of them with a precinct workers strike so
that the 2d session of Congress won't vote Bush a dime.--
Sue Udry, spokesperson for UfPJ, emailed me this morning that she's in
"total" agreement that some sort of "electoral" strategies need to be
developed "where groups are connected to the Democratic party and have some
sort of power over precinct workers and contributors." Her caveat was that
the peace groups are totally disconnected from party structures, however,
though this idea will go on the table for the UfPJ's national meeting.
2) Lobby Hard to Get Tough Congressional Leadership: We need an
arm-twisting, powerful person like a neo Lyndon Baines Johnson in both
houses. What we've got now is Sen. Harry ("weak-tea") Reid in the Senate and
Rep. Nancy ("Whatever the DLC wants, I'll do") Pelosi- in the House. We're
for Sen. Pat Leahy and one or the other of Reps. Jim McGovern and Rush Holt
now that Marty Meehan is resigning July 1 to become chancellor of
UMASS/Lowell.- With Tom Davis as whip (he didn't wilt before the
poor-pitiful-Pearl performance of Monica Goodling). He's co-sponsor with
Adam Schiff of the no-confidence in Gonzales bill that had 117 co-sponsors
as of this morning. Now there's a worthy successor to LBJ.--
My suggested sign for striking precinct workers as they circle the
county/state/national Dem offices is below the line. So let's not get mad,
folks. Let's get even and either threaten to drive them out of Congress in
2008 with this 5/24 albatross and all the KIAs/Woundeds in Iraq between that
date and July 4.-
Barbara Ellis, Portland OR
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Suggested strike sign:-
Precinct Workers
Against-
Pro-War Dems
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