[Iowa-dx] Shadow cabinet?

[Richard Johnson]

Excellent!  With your involvement in the voting rights issue I think you
would have some excellent articles to contribute.  And yes, the nice
thing is that we can cover a few offices or many depending on how many
folks want to participate.  The important thing is that we not burn
ourselves out with trying to take on too much.  Better to have only 1 or
2 pieces each month that are well written and timely than to burn out a
dozen for the first couple of months and nothing after that.

I'll be happy to work on education.  It would be nice to have someone
assist who is familiar with issues affecting our post-secondary
institutions.

Rick


On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:06:05 -0600, hhart@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu said:
> I like this idea.   I think it would be fun, and as Rick suggests, we  
> need not cover everything, just do what we have people interested in  
> doing.  Almost every year, someone has suggested something along the  
> lines of a legislative agenda, but it's never gotten of the ground.  I  
> hope that will change - it's a great way to educate ourselves about  
> state issues and politics, and maybe also something to interest  
> potential new members.
> 
> I'd volunteer to work on the SoS stuff!
> 
> Holly
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Richard Johnson <seiowagreen@fastmail.fm>:
> 
> > As the campaign was in its closing days the idea of
> > developing/re-introducing a shadow cabinet came to mind.  I shared the
> > idea with some others folks and we agreed that this needed to go to the
> > wider party.
> >
> > Thanks to the work of many hands we have a good presence on the web for
> > both our state party and the (former) Barth/Johnson campaign.  These
> > forums could continue to provide a place for us to get our message out
> > to the people of Iowa if we can find a way to articulate it clearly.
> > One possible way to do this is to have a shadow cabinet provide regular
> > updates on the legislative session and the policy statements from the
> > governor.
> >
> > This has been tried before with mixed results.  Such an endeavor would
> > take some hard work and would require a number of hands to pull it off.
> > It cannot be the operation of just one or two people, or even five or
> > six.  That would be a recipe for burnout.  I would guess that a minimum
> > of two, and preferably three people would be needed for each "office" on
> > the shadow cabinet.
> >
> > The goal could be for each group to review matters relating to their
> > "office" and write a monthly editorial piece.  Ideally we would stagger
> > these so that something was coming from one of the groups each week, or
> > every other week, to keep content fresh on our web outlets.  These
> > pieces would be used as op-ed pieces in the print media, blog entries,
> > letters to our elected officials, webpages/PDF documents, or anything
> > else we thought might be a good way to distribute them.
> >
> > Yes...it's a lot of work, and we are all tired of politics right now.
> > But the new legislature starts in just 7 short weeks, and there will be
> > much to talk about.
> >
> > This is just an idea.  A piece of clay.  If enough folks want to do it,
> > we can make it happen in any way we want.
> >
> > Are there enough people interested to take on the following offices:
> >
> > Governor/Lt. Governor
> > Secretary of State
> > Secretary of Agriculture
> > Department of Education
> > Department of Economic Development
> > Government Reform/Ethics
> >
> > Even if we can only do 2 or 3, is it still worth the effort?
> >
> > Rick Johnson
> >
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