BTW, when you call someone a moron and a zealot, you should be able to prove it from their statements or actions. Good luck, there.

I worked for Senator Goldwater. I knew him personally…on a first name basis for almost 40 years.

I know people like you enjoy creating your own version of history and making up anything you can to canonize, no pun intended, your own saints. Just because Barry did not believe most of what you believe and you both consider yourselves conservatives (although he only considered himself a conservative as a matter of relativity) does not mean you can judge others in these regards.

He worked hard, we worked hard, to get a reform movement going and it was hijacked by morons and zealots like you.

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so is conservative-Republican.

If you didn’t want my help, don’t worry you won’t get it anymore, but stop lying. You should never have lost that race, period. You had no prior experience to even run a statewide campaign, so I hope the DPG treats you well and gets you the training you need should you decide to stay in this field.

1. Under Kidd the DPG has become more progressive…and less accepted by the average Georgian in regards to state and local issues.
2. The DPG has become more “inclusive” requiring most political operations to be more expensive.
3. As consequence to points #1 and #2, the DPG has lost credibility with its donor base.

What can we expect in the future for the DPG? More non-contributing leftist quasi-activists?

The DPG is in dire straits. For the longest time it was there had been a coalition of interests that constituted the party. Now all that is left are a few liberals, African Americans, Union Members and Trial Lawyers. The DPG has lost the Jewish population almost entirely (it was a small minority to begin with). Many of the former-top contributors would rather give money to the few competitive races in GA rather than blow their hard earned cash by giving it to the DPG.

It is obvious that nobody at the DPG knows what they are doing. Jane Kidd is the chair…she does not know what she is doing, should be doing, what her staff is doing…or what they should be doing…it goes on and on.

JANE KIDD NEEDS TO GO.

She is ineffective. Who cares if she knows anything about redistricting…there are plenty of other democrats that can do a better job, hire better people, raise more money…get people elected.

My response to everything you said above is to highlight a quote made by Clark Atlanta University political science professor William Boone recently. . .

. . . “The state Democratic Party is reactive,” [Boone] said. “Although they have new leadership, they are not exactly on top of it.” [Source: Savannah Morning News, "Chambliss win has politicos talking", December 7, 2008]

Yes, you got a party that talked to you as chair, but to say that investing in “Grassroots Georgia” is building an infrastructure or real grassroots work is a joke. “Grassroots Georgia” is built from Matt Weyandt’s time with the scam artist organizations that go door to door, paying canvassers based on quotas, and firing them if they should not meet quota. Jeff Totty, the “Field Director” did not even collect IDs at the doors they went to, and they only really raised money in ATL, not in your county, not in rural counties, not anywhere – why? Because you can’t raise money where you have to PERSUADE voters, and that’s what it takes to win elections. I worked for US PIRG and saw these same canvass operations that GA PIRG did across the hall and it’s a joke, it’s border line a scam in my mind and one of the reasons I left that organization after just a few months (and because Jane Kidd wanted me to run her race for full disclosure).

Yes, GG is a decent organization fine. But they have failed to show that it has raised significant funds other than a small profit while simply keeping the program afloat. AND it’s not real grassroots. They go door to door with a carefully written script with the sole purpose of getting some money from people or they don’t leave before 18 follow ups (ok that’s sarcasm, kinda…FYI).

On candidate recruitment, Rashad Taylor should have been busy recruiting, checking addresses of candidates the party wanted using the VoteBuilder so they didn’t get kicked off the ballot or drop off because they lived in the wrong district, but instead the DPG was busy paying Rashad “consulting” fees while he ran for office. If you want to blame the state committee for this, you are in your right too, but that would mean Jane Kidd has the power to appoint something like 30 or more committee members, so I would hope she would clean house there and put people in those positions that can make better decisions. And yes, I’m glad Rashad won, he’ll be a fine state rep. but now what they have to fill the Political Director position? Or do they really think someone collecting money from the DPG will be able to reach across the aisle and pass legislation with the Republicans??? The day that happens is the day the GA GOP really loses it, and then bright days are ahead for the Democrats!

And on the final note, I hate to do this, but we have had discussions about in Habersham how a Democrat could not win, and that you were thinking about supporting a “Republican” turned Independent, and/or a Republican to defeat the crazy lady from Habersham that we all know of. That the DPG would support a Republican is not the point – it’s that they went in and violated a rule instead of recruiting a candidate in the legal timeframe, because the Democrat they had dropped out. On top of that, I think the real issue is further that once they picked that candidate the true colors of the DPG showed as they did not support local candidates and that was the ONLY candidate who lost. Granted you didn’t support a Republican, but I don’t remember a Democrat either…

George, over a year and a half ago, I specifically told everyone at the DPG, while I was staff there, that the PSC was the one race the Democrats could win. It took them until you started riding on a bus to promote Jim Powell in any way publicly, and if I’m wrong on that, then the PR machine at the DPG is a failure and their attempts failed. The only news we heard was the Secretary of State challenge, so I’d thank Karen Handel more than the DPG. I specifically remember you coming to me and others asking us to support you during that fight “because the DPG won’t.” And they didn’t. When did Jane Kidd attempt to stand up to Karen Handel. And when she did with lawsuits and all those frivilous attempts, Karen Handel looked even better when she slapped them down in the AJC.

In short, maybe it’s not time for Jane Kidd to go, she has until 2010 as elected, and she hasn’t been an epic failure per say, but she hasn’t done anything or shown the public anything special that she’s done. Simply “getting by” or “working with what she inherited” doesn’t sound like a leader to me. Is Obama going to say that for four years??? “Well I wanted to do all I campaigned on, but whew, look what W left me, we’re not gonna anything!” No. Leaders lead.

What Jane Kidd MUST do is provide a specific, detailed strategic plan to the State Committee with her vision written out (if you can’t write it it doesn’t exist) with goals, benchmarks, dates, plans and proof of the work being done on Spring Street. This isn’t because of any failure or success, it’s because that’s what leaders do. We need a party that is out in force with a plan to turn these things around. Yes, winnning 4 seats is great, especially when we lost 2 incumbents, but that doesn’t move us any closer to the numbers we need after 2010 when it’s time to redistrict.

And Jane Kidd knows a lot about redistricting.