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We don't want "business as usual" to continue!
I just received this email from David Van Os. If you don't know who
he is, he is an incredible lawyer here in Texas that has been
diligently working for change for AT LEAST the past 8 years. He ran
for Attorney General of Texas in 2006 and would have been incredible.
His campaign slogan was "Fight 'em till Hell freezes and then fight
'em on the ice!" Even though he lost his bid, he is still fighting
and, unfortunately, some of who he is fighting is his own (our own)
party.
March 26, 2008 :: Transforming the Democratic Party
Transforming the Democratic Party
A reform movement to open up, democratize, and empower the Texas
Democratic Party through the majority vote actions of the Delegates at
the State Convention in June is taking shape.
The reform coalition has been dubbed the Campaign for Change. I am
speaking in this article as a volunteer for the Campaign for Change.
At the end of this article I will tell you how you can help
immediately, but first I have to tell you what the Campaign for Change is.
The objective of the Campaign for Change is to change Texas, and thus
change America, by transforming the Texas Democratic Party into a more
open, democratic, empowering organization that is governed openly and
democratically by the grassroots, instead of by insider cliques that
would rather collaborate with robber barons and Constitution thieves
than lose their control over the Democratic Party.
The Campaign for Change believes that transforming the Texas
Democratic Party into a more open, democratically governed party will
broaden the party's base by putting up a welcome sign for disaffected
Democrats who have disengaged from the political process, Independents
who want real change, and disgusted Republicans who have been driven
away by the anti-Constitution criminals who hijacked their party.
The Campaign for Change believes such a transformed Texas Democratic
Party will broaden the party's base and campaign to sweep the state in
November 2008 for the benefit of all Texans, rather than settle for
the kind of defeatist campaign to win only a few seats in the state
legislature that the insider clique conducted in 2004 and 2006, and
which the insider clique is planning right now to do again in 2008
unless the grassroots Democrats assembled at the State Convention take
charge of their party.
To campaign to carry the state is not a mere political issue; it is a
moral issue. A Democratic Party that is worthy of the legacy of its
forebears will fight to win elections not just to put points on a
political scoreboard, but to restore level playing fields and the
fruits of Constitutional democracy for all working, middle class, and
agrarian Texans.
To limit the state party's campaign to winning a few legislative
seats, as it did in 2006 and 2004, is just playing politics; it is not
fighting for the people. If the Democratic Party in Texas ever hopes
to regain majority status, it must earn the trust of the people by
fighting for the people in every corner of Texas - not just to sweeten
a few political careers, but to stand tall on behalf of working,
middle class, and agrarian Texans in order to win them relief from
special-interest corporate government and from criminals who trample
on the Constitution to fatten their own coffers.
The Campaign for Change believes that the first step in restoration of
the Texas Democratic Party to a real party that fights for the people
of this great and beautiful state is to restore to the people an open,
democratically governed Democratic Party that welcomes every person
who wishes to participate in self-government of the people's political
party as the access point to self-government in the society at large.
The first occasion to make this happen is the Texas State Democratic
Convention in June 2008.
As a volunteer for the Campaign for Change, I am helping to get fliers
about the Campaign distributed at Democratic County and Senate
District Conventions on March 29.
If you can help by distributing leaflets at your County or Senate
District Convention, please download the flier HERE, http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001SHf... make copies as
inexpensively as you can (one page, 2 sides), and hand them out at
your County or Senate District Convention this Saturday.
David Van Os
Please pass this far and wide. If you are going to the county or
state conventions, please make copies of the flier to hand out.
Yes We Can! Si su pueda!
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