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Kerry:

Your are under the misinformed belief that we were waiting for Susan to leave before we got our "shit" together.

You could not be more wrong. Committees, Clubs and Precinct Chairs have been working together from all sides to plan and strategize for 2006. We were not going to wait for her to leave, we have elections to win. There is not one candidate or elected official that believes that we cannot win in 2006, and now with everyone moving in the same direction, it is time we get to work.

I will be down at the party office helping... will you?

Michael Moon
Precinct Chair, Precinct 3309
and PROUD DEMOCRAT

Hey, Michael, you must not have been following the fall out since her resignation. Many dems seem to just want to keep fighting and not move on. Go to Burnt Orange and see the mess!

Lenna, Michael knows what is going on. He is the shill and personal puppet of Shannon Bailey, chief instigator of the Coup Democrats.

If he is so concerned about the Party, he'd be down there working now, not waiting until his friends get in power.

Michael, yes. But my priority list is.
1. precinct level
2. club level
3. county level

Not to add to the ongoing saga.... much, but your performance on 2/28 was an interesting introspective into the psyche of the challengers to the incumbent chair. However needed or not the change is, that which replaces the "power vacuum" will need to focus on unity. Knee-jerking doesn't go far towards building that.

Watching a member of the removal coalition run across the parking lot to scream "fucking republican!!" at Susan, demonstrated subtle and nuanced decorum while exhibiting a level of acumen most commonly found on AM talk radio.

There's a fine line between righteous indignation and self-righteous indignation.

Actually the fighting is going on on both sides, and it should stop and it probably would have stopped had Susan just resigned and let the Executive Committee do it's business.

I have seen the Burnt Orange Blog business and unfortunatly it's all being instigated by Tony McM... err Pete. I personally have nothing against your husband, but have serious concerns about anyone who has never run an executive committee meeting, running this meeting. Now if Tony Mcm... err Pete would stop throwing hand grenades and really working towards reconciliation, he would apologize for call out the police on the February 28th meeting, which he did just to intimidate precinct chairs.

I personally believe that if the meeting went through the remainder of the agenda on 2/28 three things would have occurred:

1) Pending Precinct Chairs would have been voted on.
2) A resolution asking for a correction to the Congressional record would have passed (and Sen. Harken's office has already been contacted).
3) The precinct chairs concerns would have been heard.

Now, to be honest, I didn't see anyone run across the parking lot and scream at Susan. I watched from across the street while her and her attorney talked for several minutes before she left and her attorney.

As far as a leadership vacuum, there has to be "leadership" first. Unfortunatly, there has not been effective leadership in the party office for several years. We have not had a coordinated campaign in the 2002 or 2004 election years, we have not had one precinct chairs training class since 2003 and we have not had any real precinct chair recruitment until after the elections?

I agree that it is time to move on, as I am sure that everyone is agreement on this. I believe that if we ignore the chair's meeting letter and move on with the original agenda, this all will happen in some measure of civility.

I just wonder what is Tony's err I mean Pete's agenda. Is he so afraid that he won't be drawing a paycheck after the new chair is elected. Why does he want to elect a permenant chair this Saturday instead of letting candidates actually campaign and tell all the precinct chairs know why they want to be party chair. So far no one has signed up on the party list and the only name I have heard is Darlene Ewing.

I look forward to actual debate and discussion. This is what makes our party strong and not lock step like the republicans.

But I guess I will not receive a comment from Tony , I mean Pete, because he will not give out his real email address

Why is no one questioning the way in which Wilkins and Malberg did not make public their having gone to the State Party for a ruling on who can call a meeting once a vacancy insues? Also, Wilkins has the power to call the meeting for the PURPOSE OF SELECTING A NEW CHAIR. He has to appoint a temporary chair to run that meeting. He seems to be saying that the Executive committee will elect a temporary chair and continue the recessed February meeting. He doesn't have the power to do that from my lay person's reading of the rules. Why didn't they get a ruling on that while they were at it?