Screw the democrats - let's spend our money on state ballot initiatives

[timeforachange]

On an otherwise dismal night in Florida, there was one huge bright spot.

The Amendment to increase the minimum wage by $1 and index it to inflation every year passed, 70% ro 30%.

This one amendment will help more poor famalies than anything Kerry or Bush could have done to help poor people.

Fuck the candidates. Let the people enact change directly. Let's get liberal consitutional iniatives on the ballot in all 50 states.

[Robert Oak]

1. that's really not a bad idea at all

any outsourcing ban of any kind gets killed in both federal and state.

Putting out ballot measures, even though multinationals would be
all over them in advertising fees might work when the issue is strong enough.

In Oregon one to save a forest from clearcut was defeated by the
timber industry with a series of lies on jobs and blah blah...

but something very simple, which we know has 70% of support...

like stopping outsourcing or (yes, this is a conservative agenda)
illegal immigration have > 70% support of the people.

[ibegurpard]

2. You're on the right track

but the two aren't mutually exclusive. Build the machine at the LOCAL level that the Democrats have let wither in favor of chasing corporate dollars.
All politics is local...the Republicans definitely understand this with their cultivations of the fundie churches. What kind of local networks do we have in place to counteract that? That's what we need to focus on.

[UdoKier]

3. I kinda like it, but.

Filthy GOP legislatures can make laws that basically stop all enforcement of labor laws if they see fit. Conservative judges can dismiss complaints by litigants suing companies for not paying the min. wage.

Face it, we need to take back the house, senate and state legislatures. City hall and dogcatcher too.