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What is happening with the Kucinich campaign, does anyone know?
(I just found this on Democratic Underground- thought some would be interested)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
Those of you who were on board in 2004 know that where Dennis did well, it was due to legions of dedicated volunteers. Some of the best results were in Minnesota, where he got 17% statewide and 27% in the Twin Cities.
My first involvement was leafleting at the Minnesota State Fair in August 2003. I also spent a weekend going door to door in Iowa, went door to door in my precinct, and left leaflets in various immigrant languages at immigrant-oriented businesses. Others did much more: running phone banks or spending days and days in Iowa, freeway blogging, organizing events, leafleting Twins and Vikings games, setting up tables at progressive and ethnic gatherings, nagging local media to cover Dennis, writing LTTEs and opinion pieces. Every Tuesday night, a real cross section of locals met in St. Paul to plan strategy.
Minnesota was an obvious success story.
So when 2007 rolled around, I waited to be called. (I'm not an organizer or administrator, but I'll offer ideas and do what I'm told.) My address and phone number have not changed. When I was not called to leaflet at the State Fair, I assumed that someone else had been assigned to the job, so imagine my surprise when I went to the DFL booth and found NO indication of Dennis' candidacy at all.
You would THINK that the obvious thing for the national campaign to do would be to build on the volunteers who pulled off end runs around the mass media in 2004, but I've compared notes with people in other states who volunteered in 2004, and none of them have been called, either.
In fact, I've heard reports of campaign employees taking names of volunteers and then not getting back to them.
My first contact from the campaign came just before New Hampshire. I mentioned my concerns to the pleasant young man who called, and he said not to worry, that Dennis was drawing huge crowds in New Hampshire.
Yeah, well we all know how that turned out.
Some of the people I've been in contact with think that there are moles in the campaign, they're that dismayed at what they're seeing. There may be two-faced people who on the surface have "good Democratic credentials," but of the DLC-tinged, "maintain-the-status quo" type. Or they may just be inept. I don't know which is worse.
I fear that, like a lot of idealists, Dennis may be too trusting of those around him.
Does anyone have any inside information on the campaign?
This is very discouraging. America is more ready for his message than ever, and the campaign is ignoring the best means of getting around the media blackout.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
Those of you who were on board in 2004 know that where Dennis did well, it was due to legions of dedicated volunteers. Some of the best results were in Minnesota, where he got 17% statewide and 27% in the Twin Cities.
My first involvement was leafleting at the Minnesota State Fair in August 2003. I also spent a weekend going door to door in Iowa, went door to door in my precinct, and left leaflets in various immigrant languages at immigrant-oriented businesses. Others did much more: running phone banks or spending days and days in Iowa, freeway blogging, organizing events, leafleting Twins and Vikings games, setting up tables at progressive and ethnic gatherings, nagging local media to cover Dennis, writing LTTEs and opinion pieces. Every Tuesday night, a real cross section of locals met in St. Paul to plan strategy.
Minnesota was an obvious success story.
So when 2007 rolled around, I waited to be called. (I'm not an organizer or administrator, but I'll offer ideas and do what I'm told.) My address and phone number have not changed. When I was not called to leaflet at the State Fair, I assumed that someone else had been assigned to the job, so imagine my surprise when I went to the DFL booth and found NO indication of Dennis' candidacy at all.
You would THINK that the obvious thing for the national campaign to do would be to build on the volunteers who pulled off end runs around the mass media in 2004, but I've compared notes with people in other states who volunteered in 2004, and none of them have been called, either.
In fact, I've heard reports of campaign employees taking names of volunteers and then not getting back to them.
My first contact from the campaign came just before New Hampshire. I mentioned my concerns to the pleasant young man who called, and he said not to worry, that Dennis was drawing huge crowds in New Hampshire.
Yeah, well we all know how that turned out.
Some of the people I've been in contact with think that there are moles in the campaign, they're that dismayed at what they're seeing. There may be two-faced people who on the surface have "good Democratic credentials," but of the DLC-tinged, "maintain-the-status quo" type. Or they may just be inept. I don't know which is worse.
I fear that, like a lot of idealists, Dennis may be too trusting of those around him.
Does anyone have any inside information on the campaign?
This is very discouraging. America is more ready for his message than ever, and the campaign is ignoring the best means of getting around the media blackout.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
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I don't get it...those posts
I don't get it...those posts seem like old news, yet they are dated '08. Caught in a time warp! Just talked to Rick Romero today.....he is no longer involved! Dennis has surrounded himself with the wrong people.....poor judgement imo. Really too bad. We're screwed now.
This was an old post, sorry
This was an old post, sorry I should have written that. I just thought it was interesting. Unfortunately Dennis is using the same people for his congressional campaign. Have you seen the "Thank you Dennis 2" ad?
Typical, is all I can say.
Typical, is all I can say. Too bad. He needs to find competant people with a good plan.
This was pretty apparent to
This was pretty apparent to many people, why not Dennis?
I can't help being angry
I can't help being angry about this still. So many of us were fighting for him, and he just wasn't paying attention. He spent all his energy raising money in CA to give to his incompetent/evil staff and then didn't even let Californians vote for him. I have lost a lot of respect for him and I don't know how to get it back.