Shoring up the DNC

Written by: Ralph I. Miller on Mar 16, 2008 9:09 PM EDT

Linked to groups: California for Democracy

Dear fellow Democrats,

As I’m sure you’re all aware, Gov. Dean is under fire (again!) at the DNC, this time for insisting that Florida and Michigan wait and allow the credentials committee to decide whether to seat their delegates,  or submit to a re-vote sanctioned under DNC rules.

First having failed to ‘Play by the Rules’ by holding their State Primaries in January (ahead of the time allowed by the DNC), and then insisting that the Party seat the 366 delegates from the two states whose delegate selection plans violated party rules (which were agreed to by the full DNC — including representatives from Florida and Michigan — more than 18 months ago), Donors from these states are now threatening to rescind contribution pledges to the DNC and worse, demanding that the DNC return sizeable contributions unless their unauthorized State Primaries are counted in the seating of delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

What can we do? We can help counter the financial impact of these renegades’ blackmail of the Party by helping to raise offsetting contributions from the grassroots.  In $20, $40, $100 dollar increments, we can silence their bark and allow the Democratic National Committee, who has led the unparalleled renaissance of the Democratic Party under the leadership of Gov. Dean,  to continue its important work in helping to elect a Democrat to the White House later this year.

Do it today and help spread the word.

Visit https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/   and do your part!

Progressives Make Strong Gains in CA District Elections

Written by: Ralph I. Miller on Jan 16, 2007 1:15 AM EST

A debate is raging in California on the term “progressiveâ€� and who is or is not a progressive.  

One undeniable fact is that progressive candidates for Delegate to the State Democratic Party Convention and to the California Democratic Party’s Executive Board, made strong showings in this past weekend’s Assembly District elections throughout California.  The gains ranged from 15% of the elected Delegates in some of the more rural districts, to nearly 100% in some of the urban ones.  As an example, in AD21 covering Silicon Valley, 5 of the 6 women and all of the men, plus the elected Executive Committee Representative, are a flavor of progressive, and all but one of these are members of a DFA-affiliated club (that person is prominent in a major environmental group).  Two years ago it was only 50% plus the E-Board Rep.  

I believe this is a big triumph for the power of the grassroots, netroots, neighbors and fellow volunteers.

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Investigate, not Impeach

Written by: Ralph I. Miller on Jan 2, 2007 1:37 PM EST

Linked to groups: California for Democracy

by Ralph Miller, Latinos for America

It seems that a consensus is developing regarding the issue of whether to impeach George W. Bush – or not.

Pre-election thinking was that impeachment was “the solutionâ€� to the crisis of Government that has been created by this Administration.  Impeachment might have been a good solution had Congress not changed hands. 

There is little likelihood of impeachment (2/3 vote is required) and with a new Democratic majority in both houses, it seems that a better course of action is to move forward with a broad range of Congressional investigations of what the Bush/Cheney administration has done (or failed to do).

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