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April 13, 2005
Taking our party back
This weekend saw big wins for groups affiliated with Democracy for America all over Tennessee. Two of the biggest wins were in Rutherford and Hamilton Counties. Democracy for Rutherford County won in five of six races and mostly took over their county's Democratic Party. Democracy for Hamilton County completely took over the Hamilton County Democratic Party.
Here in Knox County we're lucky enough to have a Democratic Party that threw out the good ole boys a few years ago. Our chair, Jim Gray, is great about including everyone and he's working hard to build the party at the grassroots level. Democracy for Knoxville picked up two precinct chair positions and retained one (mine). I personally identified several old party people that need to go and I plan to work to make that happen. We first need to grow our own membership and do a better job of reaching out to uninvolved liberals.
Posted by Paul Witt at April 13, 2005 10:45 AM
Comments
I'm an uninvolved liberal. I'm listening.
Posted by: Evan Erwin at April 13, 2005 01:21 PM
WooHoo!
Tell me about Anderson County next please.
Posted by: gonzone at April 15, 2005 12:26 PM
Seeing as how you're not going to get a response I will try and fill in. It doesn't matter who takes over the democratic wing of the democratic party.
Glad I could help.
Posted by: Ron at April 18, 2005 03:32 PM
Har-de-har-har
I assumed that was a rhetorical question.
FYI... Correction. Hamilton County's party takeover was by young progressives, not their local DFA chapter.
Anderson County's DFA/DFT group is very active and hosted a candidate forum last Thursday. Every candidate showed up and the event was on the front page of the Oak Ridger the next morning. No word on how much they're working with the Democratic party up there though.
Posted by: Paul Witt at April 19, 2005 09:27 AM
"Tell me about Anderson County next please."
Posted by: gonzone at April 15, 2005 12:26 PM
What part of that seemed like a question to you? Usually a question (even rhetorical) ask who, what, when or why.
I think my information for gonzone more appropriately filled the bill.
Is the democratic party not a big enough tent for you now?
Posted by: Ron at April 19, 2005 09:46 AM
The Democratic party, especially here in the South, stopped thinking about helping people and started thinking about keeping themselves in power about 20 years ago. There are still people running county and state parties that have been around that long and are still interested in maintaining their sphere of influence and not doing what's best for their party, uninvolved Democrats, and the public in general.
We're working to change that.
Posted by: Paul Witt at April 19, 2005 10:09 AM
Thanks Paul. Go suck a lemon Ron.
Posted by: gonzone at April 20, 2005 01:50 PM
I've never understood that expression. I like sucking lemons. It helps the breath and I like the sourness of it. :)
Posted by: Paul Witt at April 20, 2005 01:59 PM