Sunday, June 12, 2016

What this grassroot is doing today

It is hard for a grassroot who wants to focus at the Congressional level.

A. Happening currently

I have not heard anything in response to What works, what doesn't.

The only new postings on the DemSpring Slack discussion are (names deleted):


________ [2:25 PM] Makes sense to me. Working at state level as well should allow more people to get involved and do more
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[_______9:06 PM] I think that the change we need can only be achieved by a Constitutional amendment (otherwise, no matter what we do or where we do it, SCOTUS will overrule it by declaring it unconstitutional). And I agree with ____ that Congress will never lead in proposing an amendment. Therefore, I think our only realistic alternative is to initiate a call for an amendment convention in states (pursuant to Article V of the Constitution). We have four states so far, We need to get another 30 states.


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____ [7:44 PM] _________: totally agreed about Article V. Also, directly related to this, check out the first 2 videos here. Very important, inspiring, and in some cases hilarious: https://mayday.us/the-plan/
MAYDAY.US has posted on its front page this message:
We're Ending Big Money in Politics
Help us defeat Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie has only enabled lobbyists and big money while running the Democratic Party. She is part of the problem. Defeating her is part of the solution, but we need your help.
HELP US
If you click on the HELP US button, all you are taken to is a donate page, and there is nothing else that is offered for a grassroot to do.

The MAYDAY Reddit page reveals little or no grassroots activity.

MAYDAY is aware of the FL23 tweeting bank I have set up for Debbie Wasserman Schultz's district, but MAYDAY has given no publicity to the tweeting bank on MAYDAY's social media.

On the #DemocracySpring hashtag, I do not see any tweets from the past 48 hours about Democracy Spring's "outreach" program or about next week's People's Summit in Chicago. There are a lot of tweets about the situation with the Sanders campaign following his loss in California. Numerous tweeters posted this video, which is largely about Democracy Spring carrying forward the Sanders movement as regards campaign finance reform.


I have been working on this for a year, which can be tracked through many blog entries, including Proposed messaging re: Congress; A campaign statement for Sen. Sanders; and To Berniecrats. Democracy Spring has not given any publicity to my efforts on the Democracy Spring social media.

B. What this grassroot is doing today

I am sending to users of the #FeelTheBern hashtag this tweet:
To those in Sanders movement: Please consider doing this  http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/05/to-berniecrats.html.

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