Reply #34: Get involved locally and try to contact your Precinct Chairman for Dems [View All]

[KoKo]

where you live. Get the names of the fellow Dems in your area and try to meet them. Knock on their door and give them some literature. We have so many Dems in our conservative area of NC who want to get involved and are against the Iraq Invasion and Bush but they don't know what to do about it. They want to get information they want to know who to call and how to fax and who their Congresspeople are (Yes...hard to believe but it's true!)

Yesterday at our Caucus Polling place my husband and I had folks asking us who their Congressperson was for their district. They didn't know who was running and some said they vote Dem but just never really cared about politics before but they want Bush out and they are angry over why he isn't being investigated for Iraq! I'm telling you these are the folks we need to reach. They aren't political like those of us here are. And the ones who have computers don't know how to get to progressive website for information. I was telling folks "Buzzflash" because of the links to media outside the US and because it's all progressive.

Here in my area of NC there are folks who want to do anything to get Bush out and are angry with this war. Who would have thought? But they want something to do! Not just to vote. They want to be involved.

I think the local level is where the "pitchforks and torches" are.

It's unbelievable the anti-Iraq Invasion at our County Dem Precinct Convention yesterday. A resolution Praising Edwards for running for President and urging support for him to be Kerry's VP was overturned by three votes! Our convention was filled with Dean/Kuchinich Precinct Officers who had gotten themselves involved. The County Party Operatives were shocked that we didn't support our "favorite son" but we had the votes and Edwards behavior had angered us so much that we organized.

Things are changing in the grassroots. If you all go out there and contact the Dems in your area, you will see. I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes yesterday.