Declared Democratic candidates do not receive help and drop out of state race.

[midnight]

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com

"On the heels of declared Democratic candidates, Mark Struble and Kirk Bangstad, suspendng their campaigns, I heard privately from another declared candidate for the State Assembly, that he was also thinking of suspending his campaign.

It seems that he has been beating his head against the wall trying to get some help from the State Party and even the elected Dems. It is a dauntingt task with help and practically impossible without it.

Having complained before about lack of action or competence within the party, I have been told to make sure and email them and ask questions and bring concerns and they will respond.

I did that to no response from the party."

[riversedge]

1. Feingold will bring Dems to the polls..

and would have coattail effects--but we need leadership. Been trying to keep tabs on what the new Chair is doing but this is all I ever hear--nothing to nothing.


......Martha Laning is in way over her head(quick tell me the last time you saw her in the news).

Ms. Laning kept most of the same staff that helped turn Wisconsin from solid blue to dark red for a long time, thus stymying her ability to get anything new done. Then when many of them left to the Chris Abele(D -in disguise) campaign, she had the ability to hire her own people.

She failed at that, as if you look at her staff, you see retread after retread. It appears if you work on one campaign, you have a job in politics for life, regardless of the outcomes. If you look at the staff, you will see the resumes loaded with failed races upon anonymous wins.

We are now a year away from what will probably be the biggest election in our lifetime. While the Republicans have gerrymandered the state, they have also governed it in an extreme far right way, passing bad policy upon horrible policy for WI.

It is also a Presidential year where Democrats typically bring voters to the booth and perform well up and down the ticket(watch the debates and you see no reason why that can not be true again in 2016).

If we are ever to capture the State Senate, some seats in the Assembly, and possibly a seat or two in the House(I am already counting on a Feingold win), this is THE YEAR.............

[midnight]

4. I agree.

[Half-Century Man]

7. I am concerned about this.

Unless Feingold get some help from the Democratic Party outside of the state, his message will be buried in the avalanche of funding from the corporate side. As has happened before.

Progressives need to flood the Wisconsin Party and seize control. Nothing else will work.

[Scuba]

2. It seems clear that the Republicans have taken over the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Running corpo-Dems (Barrett, Barrett and then Burke) against Walker got them exactly what they wanted - Walker victories.

They scheduled the recall election seperately from the 2012 general election, a most egregious mistake assuming they actually wanted to win.

Then, instead of using them as the engine to drive progressive politics in Wisconsin for a generation, they abandoned the 30,000 Recall Walker volunteers.


I can't image that they're this inept; it has to be LIHOP.

[Half-Century Man]

8. The republicans are very vunerable this election cycle.

All of them.
They have butchered the daily running of the state so badly, that it could be a complete flip, if we just tried. I am so fucking tired of just sitting there while some assholes beat us about the head and shoulders.
Stand up and face them head on.

Fight.

[fredamae]

3. The Republican Wing of the dem party

do not want "outsiders" inside "that big 'ol dem tent". They Might upset the flow of things.
I've seen it here. A friend...a progressive ran against a GOP in a state race. Twice. He got 31% the first time...with Zero help from the local state "dem party" and the second time he ran...he got nearly 40% and never campaigned (due to illness) and the dem party still ignored his candidacy. Yet it seems the people there want change-it seemed people there-had more voters Known about him-would have elected him....They want to keep the crazies in to look good themselves? Or they don't want the conservative gop out cuz they're politically aligned? Or?

[midnight]

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[dembotoz]

5. always been a problem

if you do not chip into the coordinated campaign you do not exist

as a local party chair i was unwelcome in the obama state office that was housed in my own fucking county because i had the audacity to demand that at the prized obama house parties they also hand out lit from the dem assembly candidates who were running in the district where the house party was held.

had a screaming match with the hired gun and i was shown the door....

yes this happens.

and its gonna happen again was at a local party event with a dem congressman from wisconsin.
they will focus on a COUPLE TARGETED RACES...already decided...the rest can go suck eggs....i live in a very red
area...already told from on high..why fucking bother..and i am supposed to help recruit candidates?????????

[Dustlawyer]

6. The Democratic Party is just another subsidiary of the the Plutocrats.

The Plutocrats control things and decide who gets money and who does not. That is how they determine our choices so that they always win no matter who we elect.

This is why electing Bernie is so important, he wants to fight for Publicly Funded Elections to take away this control. Bet he doesn't get a debate question about this!

[midnight]

10. This is an important point-publically funded elections. More than ever!