As we bask in the nightly sh!tshow that is the 2016 Republican National Convention, let us not forget that, starting next Monday, the Democrats begin their own four-day spectacle. And, as with the last two conventions, BMG will be on the scene.
We’ll be posting here as often as we can, and probably moreso on Twitter. (Follow us @bluemassgroup if you haven’t already!)
So, what would you particularly like to see from Philadelphia? We’ll try to chat with as many MA delegation folks as we can, of course, but who in particular, or what topics in particular, would you like to hear about? We’ll do our best to make it happen.
Please share widely!
Because no one else in the media is!
There must be one. If you can help find them, that would be great.
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By bench, I mean bench of candidates: interesting leaders at the state level, or interesting delegates who might think about running for something.
In the last 10 to 20 years, we’ve lost dozens of state legislatures to the GOP.
I’d like to see a constructive message of where the country is headed – not papering over problems, not claiming we don’t have healthy political debates, and not making it appear that simple solutions are always around the corner.
Above all, I’d be interested in strong contrast with the negativity and the character assassination omnipresent at the Republican convention.
I’m interested in why people are there. These things are pretty useless except as advertisements, and they’re pretty lame advertisements. Are delegates happy with this stale format? What would they like to see differently?
On a more logistical note, I was upset when Obama took so many key Democrats out of elected office into his cabinet (Sebelius, Napolitano) where they basically disappeared. Do delegates want or fear Hillary doing that?
Imagine the excitement of getting together with Dems from around the state each year at our conventions just for the comraderie, then magnify that to a national scale.
conventions.
I avoid those that don’t nominate candidates.
The MTA could eliminate its convention and 95% of the membership wouldn’t care.
You mean Annual Meeting? It’s true 95% of the membership doesn’t care, but stuff actually gets done there — officer election, quite few bylaw and new business items. When I go to state Dem conventions, it’s just a platform nobody reads and lots of schmoozing.
the president and officers of the union are elected by a relatively small group of people who can trek to Boston on one Saturday of the year?
I went once. 4 hours total there and back. Lunch. Parking. Just to cast a vote. Honestly, it’s a pretty undemocratic process. I don’t recall if they asked for my ID>
It does bother me. It’s like every electoral system — it’s damn hard to change because the people in power got there under the old one. I could say more, but this may not be the place.
I try to volunteer with the local Democrats on the Saturday or Sunday at the start of the Convention. You folks in?
…to get out into the more swingy suburbs of Philadelphia where PA will be won or lost? I suspect that city itself is pretty safe for our ticket.
The plan is to go door to door in transient neighborhoods and get people to register to vote.