[Needtoknow] Re: The war and gubernatorial candidates

[gary hicks]

ok, so ----------------------
   
  >>ron and david r. get castigated for being out there and "over the top" on issues concerning the middle east; and
   
  >>jill and grace get castigated for not being vocal enough on the middle east in their election campaigns.
   
  what do these party members have in common? a state party whose leadership has not mobilized its membership to intervene in the peace and justice movement in well over two years ---- since march 29, 2003 to be exact. since then, the state leadership has not mobilized the party into the movement. moreover, the state party has suffered an internecine struggle over palestine- israel, the sudan, and now lebanon-gaza.
   
  please, please. a little less personal nudging of individual members. a little more collective action as a party, based on principled agreement as to what exactly we stand for. and not only on the issue of the middle east -------
   
  in struggle,
  gary hicks

Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com wrote:
  John - please stop - this is an issu ein my campaign - I have spoken at 
almost all peace rallies, have been active around the Lebannon stuff, its part of 
our key issue list. and there is plenty more that can be done if people like 
you want to get involved and make the work happen -

Again, you don't clearly know much about me - but I have worked on peace and 
solidarity issues my entire adult life, have trained literally 10's of 
thousands, and been in leadership in most of the peace movement work in Masachusetts 
- 
So help make it happen - it can - it will be as upfront an issue in my 
campaign as people put energy into making it happen - 
same thing with using the campaign to build party infrastructure. We will 
accomplish what people willing to work get acocmplished-
Love, grace

In a message dated 8/10/06 12:45:49 AM, jvwalshmd at gmail.com writes:


> Here is what David Broder, boring but once in a while insightful,
> writes in his syndicated column today in the Washington Post.  Please
> read second paragraph in caps:
> 
> Nonetheless, you can see the disillusionment with Iraq coloring
> Democratic politics more broadly. Hillary Clinton, that most cautious
> of centrists, delivered a public tongue-lashing to Don Rumsfeld last
> week over his mismanagement of the war and said he should resign.
> And New Mexico Gov. BILL RICHARDSON, WHO IS COORDINATING THE PARTY'S
> EFFORT IN THE 36 GUBERNATORIAL RACES THIS YEAR, TOLD ME THIS WEEK THAT
> HE THINKS THE IRAQ ISSUE "WILL SPILL OVER" INTO THOSE CONTESTS, ADDING
> TWO OR THREE POINTS TO THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. With American generals
> talking openly about Iraq's verging on civil war, he said, "it allows
> Democrats to take positions that are responsive to the public and yet
> are protected from Republican political attacks."
> The opposition to current policy in Iraq is building -- and so is
> dissatisfaction with a Washington that seems to be drowning in
> partisanship and incapable of breaking its policy gridlock on
> immigration, energy or health care. The protests are coming from both
> the right and left, but the greatest frustration is among the broad
> swath of centrist voters who feel they have no voice. In this
> environment, incumbents of neither party can feel safe.
> 
> I ask again, why is GRP not making a bigger issue of the war in local
> elections?  A friendly  question: Why are Grace and Jill not making a
> bigger point of this?  In many ways their campaigns are different but
> on this they are similar.  It often happens that despite differences
> in what we see, the blind spot is in the same place.
> 
> jw
> 
> 

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