Why Democrats Suck

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Monday October 24, 2005 · 12:19 PM PDT

2005/10/24 · 12:19

In the course of the last three weeks or so, I have gotten quite a few emails from political interests - having subscribed to several to see what everyone is up to. (In the interest of disclosure, I should let you know that I am running for Congress as a Democrat in CA's East Bay area.)

Here is why Democrats suck: I got two emails asking me to help specific candidates, one in Virginia, the other in West Virginia. Here is the Democratic email, and here is the Republican email. Now, forgetting for a minute that one says "Barbara Boxer" at the top, and the other says "GOP" at the top - what are your impressions? One is short, simple, and direct. It asks for help in an interesting, fun, grassroots way. The other is almost 4 times longer, repetitive, uninformative and mean spirited. It asks only for money.

Would you be suprised that the Democratic one was the bad one, and the Republican one was populist, empowering and grassroots oriented - without a mention of money in sight? I certainly was. Read More

Call for Volunteers

Chacon for Congress

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Friday October 21, 2005 · 8:38 AM PDT

2005/10/21 · 08:38

My name is Scott Chacon and I am running for Congress in the East Bay area of CA (CA-11). I posted here quite a while ago when I was first considering running. I have now put live a website based on new open sourced code that incorporates many of the ideas I had written of back then, and I would like your help with testing it.

This software does the following things :

Open Schedule - anyone can schedule the candidate first come, first served

Call Me - sign up to get a personal call from the candidate

Phone Banking - a distributed phone bank and script for contacting voters and allowing the caller to schedule meetings between the called and the candidate.

Tell Others - send emails to your friends telling them about our campaign

Account Feed - See donations and expenditures in near real time, via RSS

Discussions - Start a discussion and subscribe to the feed to keep up to date with it

We aim to give back to the progressive community. Help us make this a powerful free tool for all candidates in 2006 and moving forward.

You can see it in action at : http://www.jointheconversation.org
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