[statecom-discuss] Re: [ComCom] Here's an idea - For tuesday

[Mike Heichman]

I agree with Bill. There are so many more important things to focus on 
than getting involved in going after one of the potential Republican 
candidates for President. Let the Republicans and Democrats choose their 
own candidates without our "interference".

Mike Heichman


BillCunningham wrote:

>I'm sorry, I don't know where to begin. I do not think that joint media events with an enormously powerful adversary can help us. 
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>We are NOT at the point of becoming the State's second political party—by almost any measure, we are a small and weak organization. We have only just begun to develop a strategy to change that.
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>I believe these are the conditions under which we must work and make our choices at least until the Party makes a strategic decision as to how to move towards change.
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>We could only stage such a joint media event with liberal Democrats with the understanding, whether explicit or not, that we would refrain from attacking or upstaging each other.
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>Using the event to sharpen public perception of our political difference with the liberal Democrats, would be an unprincipled betrayal of such implicit or explicit understanding.  We must show that we can be trusted, because even with folks who are generally adversaries, there will be times when we must cooperate.
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>So I feel that if we arrange a joint media event, it would likely smudge what is, for many people, an already-fuzzy line between us and the liberal Democrats. I think that  would be harmful to the Party, and harmful to the People.
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>I think you'll agree this is beyond the competnece of a working committee to decide, so I'm passing it along to the StateCom discuss list.
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>>From: gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
>>Sent: Feb 11, 2007 6:55 PM
>>To: etwee at earthlink.net, comcom at green-rainbow.org
>>Subject: Re: [ComCom] Here's an idea - For tuesday
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>>The point of the idea was to start a discussion with input -- any 
>>chance I can get more than "I vote no"?  We have a chance to take a 
>>serious bite out of the momentum of a right wing presidential hopeful - 
>>probably the most right wing - we should not take the opportunity?  
>>When national media is going to actually be interested early on in the 
>>story - instead of waiting till he has built up much more momentum and 
>>we won't be of interest to them in pointing them in the right direction?
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>>More than a "no", please?  Love, grace
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: etwee at earthlink.net
>>To: comcom at green-rainbow.org; comcom at green-rainbow.org
>>Cc: wmv01462 at hotmail.com; lucballgame at yahoo.com
>>Sent: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:22:10 -0500 (EST)
>>Subject: Re: [ComCom] Here's an idea - For tuesday
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>>  I vote no
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>>-----Original Message-----
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>>>From: gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
>>>Sent: Feb 11, 2007 4:24 PM
>>>To: comcom at green-rainbow.org
>>>Cc: wmv01462 at hotmail.com, lucballgame at yahoo.com
>>>Subject: [ComCom] Here's an idea - For tuesday
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>>> In the hopes of moving forward in positioning us as the second party 
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>>in this
>>state - my guess is the national party would want to know about this 
>>too.
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>>>But I think we should host a bi-partisan or non=partisan press 
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>>conference on
>>Tuesday (either explicitly us and invite the Dems to co-host or invite 
>>a bunch
>>of groups as a coalition effort) - as a formal reply from the people of
>>Massachusetts to Romney Presidential announcement.
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>>>We would need some folks to comb whatever presidential website he has 
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>>to see
>>what he is claiming.
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>>>We have to remember that we would be speaking to the whole country 
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>>(more
>>conservative than Mass) and that we want to discredit him with the 
>>Christian
>>right among other things -
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>>>If scheduled like two hours after his announcement, we should get 
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>>national
>>media - I already have some bites from key activists outside the GRP - 
>>What do
>>you think?
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>>>Love, grace
>>>
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