Reply #9: Maybe someone here can explain something to me [View All]

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This is the second time I've heard (read) of people within the Party being 'elected' as a Precinct Captain. Maybe things are done differently from state to state, but in my city, Reno, we don't elect for these positions -- we persuade. In fact, we are going door to door to find people to fill these positions -- sometimes, it's like pulling teeth to get people involved to do that.

I've committed to be a District Coordinator, and our goal is to get a 1 to 100 ratio of volunteers to voters. This is the long-term goal of rebuilding the party locally. Under the District Coordinators, we have Section Coords and then Precinct Captains.

We do need to be elected to be on our central committee to vote and whatnot. We just had that meeting and I was not able to attend and really wasn't even aware of what it was until it was too late to be involved.

Anyway, The logistics of all this is new to me.

All I know is that I had to get out and make a difference, and it starts at the local level, it seems. I've probably bitten off way more than I can chew right now with trying to develop an entire District, but, someone has to step up to the plate, I guess.

Sometimes I feel like it's like the story of the Little Red Chicken -- the one about baking the bread and no one would help -- I talk to registered Dems in my District and they say, "Yeah, things are horrible -- You really should..." or "The Dems really oghta'..." They never say "We should..." I've been finding polite ways to say, "You ARE the party..." They expect someone else to do it for them.