Dallas Dem chair Susan Hayes spotlighted in 3/15 DMN

[derby378]

Anyone see it in the Metro section? Sounds like the knives are being sharpened...

[sonias]

1. She brought it all upon herself

If the knives are being sharpened, she open the drawer where they were stored.

Sonia

[derby378]

2. That's what happens when you piss off the grass roots

And now with Dean in charge of the DNC, things may not look too good for Susan. Time for some real change in our local party's way of doing business.

[sonias]

3. I know if our county party chair did what she did

I be working against her too. I really think she should do what is best for the party and step down.

This reminds me a lot of Molly Beth's lame duck term. Molly knew she was was in the cross-hairs of the activists. She tried to hang on but as she dragged out her term, she became less and less effective. Eventually she understood it was pointless and did the right thing.

Susan may have done some good things in the past, but with our party rebuilding, when you screw up like that, you need to have the ego to let go of the job too. It's the right thing for the party.

Sonia

[crispini]

4. This article?

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/gjeffers/stories/031505dnmetjeffers.fb1c.html

It totally misses the point about at least one thing:

North Texas Democrats couldn't get enough John Kerry/ John Edwards campaign yard signs. After initial orders, Ms. Hays decided that the county party should refrain from peddling Kerry/Edwards signs and focus on local races.

On Election Day, some Democrats managed to get about 150 Kerry signs from Fort Worth, but none were available from the Dallas Democratic office.

What the article fails to say is that Susan had an agreement with the Dallas for Kerry members who contributed to the Kerry sign fund, and the agreement was that after two rounds of signs were sold, the money from the profit of those two rounds of signs would go to free signs at the polling places and for those who wanted them but couldn't afford them. Susan broke that agreement with the volunteers who made the contribution.

[derby378]

5. Yep. This chick is toast.

I was quite unhappy with her at the Granada back in October when she started writing off North Texas in the upcoming elections. You don't demoralize your own grass-roots volunteers when we're still in the middle of the Presidential debates. Not smart at all.

[crispini]

6. I don't remember that, what did she say?

I've heard her speak on politics a couple of times since then and she seems well-spoken and knowledgeable. She just seems to be missing... something... dunno what it is? I think maybe she doesn't realize just how much her job is perceived as a "customer-service" type job -- where the precinct chairs are the customers.

[derby378]

7. What I remember

She wanted volunteers to start canvassing via phone in Arkansas, Lousiana, etc. instead of in their own backyard. Considering that Bush beat Kerry by only 50-49 in Dallas County, I felt that a little extra motivation from Susan, even if it didn't affect that many more local elections, could have handed the Republicans a major embarassment by turning Dallas County solid blue instead of a reddish purple. But that's just me.