If we begin with a clear statement of our values, it can be used as a handout at a local festival where we are registering new voters or incorporated as part of a brochure, leaflet or web site for local Democratic committees to use in … [Read more...]
March 5th Education Platform Meeting
I will have printouts of Deval Patrick's "Readiness Report" as well as the platform section on education available. We hope to have facilities to collect and input in written or even oral form to forward to the state Democratic Party … [Read more...]
Rewriting the state party’s platform
Every four years the state Democratic Party revises its platform, and this is a revision year. And, as AmberPaw has already noted, I've been asked to serve as one of the co-chairs of the state party's Platform Committee. It's … [Read more...]
Partial update from tonight’s State Democratic Committee Meeting
Suggest this be an open thread. Here are a few highlights: The Platform Committee has five co-chairs - one of whom is David Kravitz, one of the BMG guys. John Walsh, the chair of the State Democratic Committee announced that ANY … [Read more...]
RNC copies idea for user input on platform.
The Democratic National Committee and Barack Obama announced that our national Democratic Party platform would be open to input from Democrats across the country back in early July. I'm not sure how I missed this, but soon after the Dem's … [Read more...]
A 21st Century Democratic Party
The reasons being that: 1. I'm 25 and was born three weeks too late to vote in the November 2000 election. But, if I could have voted, it would have been for Ralph Nader; 2. I interned with Howard Dean's campaign in New Hampshire in … [Read more...]