[statecom-discuss] (different plans and strategies...)

[Merelice]

On 2/16/07, Ron Francis <ronwf777 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We should be careful with this....Outreach can become difficult if it involves mutliple items being thrown at people simultaneously... people can get confused and time can be limited too.


My point exactly, Ron. That is why the strategy committee seems like
such a good idea. It will help get folks on the same page, reinforcing
each other's efforts instead of willy-nilly going in a dozen
directions on the issue-du-jour.

I would like to show genuine enthusiasm for what you are doing.
Unfortunately my enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that I deeply want
a GRP plan that has some coherence and I don't understand why you
don't want to participate in that process instead of preempting that
process. Don't you see that if you start recruiting and calling
people, it will be confusing (and may have already caused confusion)
when the strategy committee also gets in touch with them? Once again,
the party will look as if it can't get its act together.

Won't you consider presenting your program for consideration by the
strategy committee whose findings and recommendations will be brought
to the next StateCom meeting? Then the expectation is that
implementing the plan will become a core part of this year's State
Convention. This doesn't stop people from organizing in their own
locales. Quite the contrary: It will take local organizing to feed
into the strategy work. This is a bottom-up, not a top-down, process.

Merelice