-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gorse [mailto:mgorse@mgorse.dhs.org]
Sent:
To: pdama@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [pdama] Dean vs. the DSC
Importance: Low
It has occurred to me that Dean was elected DNC chair
through grassroots
efforts and on a mandate to
empower the grassroots, and the DSC's charter
amendments do the opposite of
that, pushing the MA Democratic Party in a
direction of consolidated power,
so there is a disconnect between what the
state party is doing and what I
perceive Dean to be trying to do. The
DSC
is acting like a company CEO who
insists on micro-managing everything. I
remember one of the speakers on
Saturday talking about the need for
outreach, yet the hoarding of
power by the DSC is not conducive to the
party growing organically, being
welcoming of new people. (Jesse, you
were alluding to this with the
DSC seeing Reich and his people as a threat
rather than a source of new
people and ideas to reinvigorate the party.)
Could Dean somehow be helpful to us?
As we interact with the DSC and work to make it a more
open, democratic,
and progressive institution, it
could be useful to point out that the
grassroots activists need to
play an active role in the party in order for
it to grow and win campaigns,
and the DSC's desire to prevent "outsiders"
from having any control over the
party will alienate people who would
otherwise build the party and
ultimately make it harder for Democrats to
win campaigns.
On a side note, it occurred to me that perhaps I should
not be posting
this to an open list lest the
insiders are lurking and figure out what we
are trying to do, but then I
realized that I would be doing the very thing
that the DSC is doing--being
destructive in a desire to be in control.
-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --