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Help Me Become a DFA Grassroots All-Star!

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Blue Mass Group’s endorsement has been extremely helpful when reaching out to progressive activists and voters. Here’s another great opportunity to reach out to the netroots and grassroots. Democracy for America has just kicked off its 2010 Grassroots All-Star effort. True to a grassroots organization, DFA is relying on progressive voters like you to decide which candidate they’ll support.

Take two minutes right now to help make me a DFA Grassroots All-Star! Here’s how you can help:

1) Vote for me at the DFA Grassroots All-Star website at this link. (It’s very important that you make my campaign your First Choice because ONLY the campaign you select as your First Choice will get your vote in this contest.)

2) Send a personal note to friends, family, neighbors and co-workers encouraging them to vote at this link, as well. (Using this link automatically makes my campaign the First Choice selection on your ballot.)

3) If you’re on Facebook, GOTV by posting about the link in your status update and on the Wall of your Facebook groups.

4) If you’re on Twitter, tweet this to your followers:

Help @Mac4Mass win the @DFAaction powerful Grassroots All-Star endorsement. Vote Now http://bit.ly/bh45QK #p2

This endorsement contest has two rounds.  The ten campaigns with the most votes by Sunday, July 18, advance to a final round to determine the ultimate winner. So, vote today and get the word out to your networks by e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter as soon as you can to help me become a DFA Grassroots All-Star! If you have any questions about me or my campaign, check out my website or feel free to contact us anytime. I thank you once again for your support.

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  1. I voted when the email from DFA came a couple of days ago:

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    p>1. Mac D’Alessandro

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    p>2. David Segal (RI)

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    p>3. Ann Kuster (NH)

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    p>I also posted the Mac link to Facebook, and I hope everyone else here does too!

    • I voted for Mac as #1 and Segal as #3. I think a woman who would be in Congress now but for the Obama administration sabotaging her campaign deserves the support of progressives nationwide. Mac gets priority out of parochial concerns, but we need to send a message that the way the national establishment treated Hanabusa, trashing her in favor of a more conservative and less electable candidate, is totally unacceptable.  

  2. Hey Mac,

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    p>Thanks again for answering my questions earlier and I wish you the best of luck.

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    p>I read up on your bio and was interested what part of Chicago you were from and what it was like to work on Harolds campaign?  

    • Kids learn so many thing from their parents.  I was lucky enough to have parents who were so politically engaged and involved, and I got that from them as I grew up (on the north side of Chicago in Lincoln Park).  Harold Washington’s campaign for Mayor of Chicago is where I learned about the importance and impact of grassroots organizing, and it shaped my approach to politics and civic engagement.

      • Im an adopted Hyde Parker myself (recent UofC grad) and the legacy of Harold Washington is particularly felt in that neighborhood. The elevation of Toni Preckwinkle, a Washington disciple, to the Cook County Presidency should hopefully show the city that his dream hasn’t died. And hopefully you can restore the progressive district of the fightin’ 9th once represented by such stalwarts as Moakley and McCormick and now represented by a poser.  

  3. and am proud to have done so before all the Mac campaign emails went out. Good ol’ DFA mailing list.

  4. Thought I’d throw in my ideas concerning a “real” grassroots movement:

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    p>Mac D’Alessandro’s attempt to unseat Lynch in the Democratic Primary on Tuesday, September 14th is a pretty exciting thing to watch. Mac’s got the typical grassroots support, but, in reality, is it really a “real” grassroots movement?

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    p>Twitter, Facebook, and all other Blogs and social networking tools/sites are becoming more commercial, and therefore, can’t truly represent a grassroots movement.

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    p>Grassroots is all about knocking on doors, and stumping in public places like railroad platforms and community concerts. It’s about man power, and not the power of money.

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    p>Mac is a great guy, and a good Democrat, but he’s still taking a Lynch-esque approach to the race for U.S Congress. On ActBlue, Mac’s got about $31,000 as of today, and that’s really a ton of cabbage if you think about it. I mean, if I had that, I’d be running for Senate…not Congress. It’s all about doing a lot with a little, and if you have an abundance, use it creatively, not on a mass-mailing and a spiffy website.  

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    p>We’ll see when the July 15 FEC report comes out. My guess is Lynch will lead the pack, then Mac, followed by Dunkelbarger, Lepor, and lastly, Harrison.

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    p>I’ll be supporting Mac on September 14th, but my real candidate is DUNK. Phil Dunkelbarger is using limited resources on a real grassroots level, and he’s working for every vote on November 2nd, 2010.

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    p>If you’ve already given to Mac, please consider giving a small donation to Phil Dunkelbarger at http://dunk2010.com/ and click on the “Donate” button on the top right. He’s looking for small cash, $10, $15, $25, so he can make this a meaningful race. Because regardless of the outcome in the Democratic Primary, we’re going to need a solid, “for sure” candidate, who we’ll know is going to be there in November to unseat Lynch if Mac loses out.

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    p>So, again, please consider helping DUNK out, and help make the 9th Congressional District a better place to live.

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    p>  

    • All due respect, that makes no sense at all to me.  The great thing about Twitter, Facebook, and blogs (and the internet in general) is that they let individuals use very powerful mass communication tools that have never existed before at zero or very low cost.  Yes, of course they have commercial applications.  So what?  They have millions of individual users, and the fact that D’Alessandro has been using those tools effectively speaks very highly of his determination to run a true grassroots campaign.

      • The internet has really created an end-run around the traditional party structure and has allowed a lot of non-establishment backed candidates to win primaries, win elections, etc. It allows people to reach candidates they like directly without having to go through the DNC and the DCCC, it allows those two bodies to hear about candidates they’d otherwise forget about. Its also a way around traditional machines like Chicago’s and even Boston’s. Certainly one could argue some of the parallel structures (Kos’s PAC) are now similar to the apparati they claimed to supplant or usurp.  

    • With all due respect $31,000 is a drop in the bucket to run a legitimate House campaign, let alone a Senate campaign. Stephen Lynch has about $1.5 million in the bank.

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      p>Also it is unfair to assume that Mac is also not pounding the pavement and visiting towns in the district, he is doing both.  And doing both aggressively and often is necessary to run a modern “grassroots” campaign.

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      p>What does Phil Dunkelbarger offer that Mac will not?  It is disappointing that they will be siphoning off each other’s votes to the benefit of DINO Stephen Lynch.

    • Dunk is in this for his ego. If he really wanted to beat Lynch he’d be helping Mac in any way possible. Or at least not having his people attack Mac. Liberals hate Lynch. Certain unions hate Lynch. Everyone who hates Lynch is a Dem primary voter. If Lynch survives the primary, he’s got Republican support to add to his margin in Nov.

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      p>That being said, there is some marginal advantage to having an opponent available for the general just in case Lynch gets caught doing cocaine or something like that. But given how minimal that value is, giving money to Dunk doesn’t make sense until you’ve maxed out to Mac. If you can afford to spend $2500 on this race, go ahead and give the last hundred to Dunk. If you can only afford $25, splitting it up is a bad idea.  

      • I was never participating in this thread to harm Mac in any way. In fact, I wrote a pretty supportive piece for him recently, right after his loss, available here: http://vps28478.inmotionhosting.com/~bluema24/d…

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        p>I was merely on record, supporting Phil Dunkelbarger, who I knew would be the only one left when the dust settled after the Primary.

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        p>We have a real chance to support Lynch’s worst enemy, and our best friend Phil Dunkelbarger. All I ask is that we give it one last “go.” That’s all. It needs to happen, otherwise, things will never change in time for us to save what little savings our children may have left.

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        p>I admit my comments don’t yield much support after a second look at them:

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        Grassroots is all about knocking on doors, and stumping in public places like railroad platforms and community concerts. It’s about man power, and not the power of money.

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        p>However, I still say pounding the pavement counts for a lot.

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