Submitted by lambert on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 8:24pm
About which more later, I hope. Meanwhile, has anybody else had any experience with national organizations being parachuted in to state and local campaigns?
With obviously recycled PowerPoint slides, snarl?
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recycled powerpoint slides, ugh
no, i've never really had to deal with the parachuting, so i can't offer anything useful.
sort of tangentially-related, i'm interested to hear your take on the sierra club. right-wing xenophobes have tried to stage a hostile takeover of the organization in the past [unsuccessful, fortunately]. in the present, they recently acquired the epa guy that obama fired when the right-wing noise machine started whining.
I thought the institution was broken
It seemed clear to me that they were doing the campaign in the way they were doing it (a) because that was a campaign they knew how to do ("drunks looking under the lamp-post"), and I hypothesized (b) that they has secured funding for that sort of campaign, which is why they were not willing to bend at all to feedback from what has been a very successful grass roots (hate that metaphor) so far.
Good bye Sierra Club
When I read that the Sierra Club had endorsed Obama again, I was disappointed, especially after the way Obama handled the BP oil spill. I let the Sierra Club know that I was protesting the endorsement by not renewing my membership with the club.