Comments on: Welcome Back Darcy Burner!

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:40:16 +0000

‘reconciliation’? Do ya mean “in conference”?

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:04:41 +0000

Thank you, Darcy! Feeling encouraged by your commitment and hope to help! Thanks Howie, everyone. The PC list of names gives me hope. Some of my favorite people there. Will work on your #2 @88 beginning tonight, Darcy! Will mention you in my voicemail. Anybody close to joining we should AIM at?

By: Darcy Burner

Darcy Burner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:04:35 +0000

The most important two things I need right now are:
(1) volunteers and
(2) people to contact members of the progressive caucus and thank them for being members and fighting for us.

By: Darcy Burner

Darcy Burner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:03:21 +0000

I want to thank everyone for participating! I have to go now – I promised my 2-year-old nephew we’d go to the park this afternoon. But you can reach me at darcy (at) progressivecongress.org. Please send me questions, comments, suggestions… and I look forward to working together with all of you to get our country on track.

By: spocko

spocko — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:59:57 +0000

One thing that I learned when I helped the organizers of the Indo-American Council with their first conference is that there are some big money progressives in that community. They might be a group that are willing to help with tech infrastructure and money. They have a few issues about immigration H1-b and family reunification that is very much NOT on the side of the right wing. (You might have been exposed to them when you were working with MS).

By: Howie Klein

Howie Klein — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:59:36 +0000

Darcy, that went by so fast! Thanks for coming and spending two hours with us today. If the FDL community members need to take one thing away from this discussion in terms of how we can be helpful, what would it be?

By: Howie Klein

Howie Klein — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:57:45 +0000

The wikipedia site looks pretty up to date in terms of members

By: spocko

spocko — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:56:26 +0000

Alan Grayson is a great example. He did say that he got targeted with nasty ads from the right because of his positions. What we can offer people like Alan are the promotion that leads to greater recognition. I think of all the people that saw Alan nail the financial folks with his simple questions.

And, since Dacy has a technical background, I’ll note that one thing that we can remember to pay attention to is search optimization and now, shutter, twitter. The right and the right wing media LOVE their twitter, so we can’t ignore it, but search is still one way that media and regular folks find out about leaders on issues.

By: Darcy Burner

Darcy Burner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:56:12 +0000

The current chairs of the caucus are Raul Grijalva and Lynn Woolsey. The full list of caucus leadership and membership is at cpc.grijalva.house.gov.

By: Darcy Burner

Darcy Burner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:53:56 +0000

Well, when the benefits of joining the Progressive Caucus outweigh the downsides (even in tough districts), I think we’ll see more enthusiasm. The more the Caucus does, the more it will be able to do - and the more motivation there will be for members to join and participate.

And yes, Alan Grayson joining showed his genuine courage. He’s pretty amazing.