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[Blogs] Ellie Reeves seeks NEC re-election (Labourhome)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:21 GMT

Dear Comrade I am writing to ask for your support to be re-elected to the Labour Party National Executive Committee. Two years ago I was the youngest person ever to be elected to the NEC by Labour Party members. And over the last two years I have always stood up for grassroots party members, and sent out regular reports after every meeting. Nominations for the NEC elections...

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Ku Li claims momentum for Umno EGM building up (The Star)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:19:26 GMT

Sunday April 20, 2008Ku Li claims momentum for Umno EGM building upKOTA BARU: Momentum is building among Umno’s 110 divisions to hold their respective extraordinary general meetings, said party veteran leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.He said more divisions were becoming bold in calling for changes in Umno following the massive losses in the recent general election.“I think the grassroots...

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Teach your self Pot smoking from LibDems (Suz Blog)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:58:00 GMT

... when caught out. It's reported that these were old flyers taken from the Liberal Youth's office at party headquarters to attract attention. That maybe so but they should have been destroyed long ago. Islington's Lib Dem councillors may claim to be embarrassed and have distance themselves from the issues but it's still a Federal Party policy document. Some years ago at a Party...

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I am genuinely undecided. (BlueNC - Comments)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:28:59 GMT

I believe in voting your conscience in the primary, even if that candidate, by conventional wisdom, has no chance of winning, because that let's the party power structure know how the grassroots of the party are feeling. For instance, let's say that the vote breaks down like this: Besse: 15% Dellingers: 25% Smathers: 15% Dalton: 45% In that scenario, Dalton wins. But it sends...

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Top Down vs Bottom Up (B12 Partners Solipsism)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:41:22 GMT

Yet in a larger sense, Hillary's candidacy represents the polar opposite of what Dean built as a candidate and party chair: her campaign is dominated by an inner circle of top strategists, with little room for grassroots input; it hasn't adapted well to new Internet tools like Facebook and MySpace; it tends to raise big contributions from a small group of high rollers rather than from...

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Breastage, as in (BlueNC - Comments)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:21:39 GMT

The super delegate has been blown out of proportion, because I haven't heard any of the so-called leaders of the Democratic party saying they would do any over rides of the primary turnout. I think they set up that system to avoid another Gary Hart type scandal, just before the convention. What if that Rezco thing blew up into a much bigger tie-in to Obama? Or some other scandal happened involving...

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I don't know, Betsy. (BlueNC - Comments)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:46:34 GMT

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Jugs (BlueNC - Comments)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:02:10 GMT

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Did Dean's 50-State strategy yield Obama? (PrairieStateBlue - Front Page)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:50:15 GMT

Ari Berman writes in a Nation article Dean has remained fastidiously neutral and low-key in this presidential cycle. Yet a number of his top supporters believe the Clinton-Obama contest has become a referendum on the kind of grassroots party building and citizen empowerment Dean pioneered as a presidential candidate and continued as DNC chair. On that issue most Deaniacs, not surprisingly,...

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Laura Flanders | A New Moment? The Grassroots and the Party, 1964 and 2008 (Truth Out)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:53:41 GMT

Laura Flanders, in a column for TomDispatch, writes: "Today, thanks to an investment of funds from the Democratic National Committee, Sanders has a fulltime staff -- a beneficiary of DNC chair Howard Dean's drive to revitalize the party in all fifty states. When I asked him why he stuck with the Party so long, solo, Sanders responded quick-as-a-flash: 'Because of my grandmother.' Sanders'...

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