[Iowa-dx] Re: [Iowa-work] My thoughts

[Richard Johnson]

Again, we are faced with a "one size does not fit all" situation.  That
may well be the case out in the western portion of the state, but here
in SE Iowa I believe that it is possible to build using connections on
issues that resonate with local folks.  

My only concern about bringing "stars" out to talk about Green issues is
that we have relatively few.  The Green Party just does not have folks
with the name recognition like the two major parties do.  We do not have
a Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Bill Clinton, or even a Barak Obama to
bring out here.  We don't even have a Tom Vilsack, Mitt Romney, or Dan
Quayle level of person to bring out here.  It's going to take some time
before we have anyone close to this level of name recognition.

What we have are people with excellent ideas who could debate the pants
off any of these big name politicians.  But...as you correctly point
out...the voters don't turn out for a Howard Zinn, no matter how good
his speech might be.  

I truly wish it were otherwise.  

As for ad money...we are in agreement.  We need to raise money to
publicize our work, our candidates, and our values & platform.  To do
that we need people who can mobilize and help raise money.  The GOP and
Dems simply have a dinner, and people show up to pay the $1000 per plate
fee to get the rubber chicken.  We need to do a lot more than that.  The
problem is that across our state I suspect we could pull together about
as many active, working party members as the Democrats could get from
one county.  So we have to be creative...very creative...to raise money.

Which reminds me...can someone send me a copy of the form I need to
being having an automatic contribution made from my checking account?  I
have looked high and low, and I cannot find the form that I had a while
back.

Rick


On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:45:23 +0000, "David Grimesey"
<dude_93@hotmail.com> said:
> 
> You cannot have a winning candidate without voters.  You need to spend
> money and get some "Big wigs" to come here and talk to the people. 
> Around here, if you want to have people come to you, you need star power.
>  You also need to spend some money on an ad campaign to get people on
> your side in those areas where we are making head way.  As for the places
> where it looks bad like here in Western Iowa, well, maybe we can do what
> the Dems do when they want to win.  If you can carry Pocohantas (CB) and
> Woodbury (SC) and do well in Spencer, Storm Lake and Caroll then you will
> have a foot hole.
> 
> DAVE
> 
> I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to
> be left to the politicians.  Charles DeGaulle
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