tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846164.post116328574087887640..comments2008-12-12T15:14:43.311-08:00Emmetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06489372248577177410noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846164.post-1163372694258820702006-11-12T15:04:00.000-08:002006-11-12T15:04:00.000-08:00Howdy Nathe,<BR/><BR/>I don't disagree with you at all. Actually I agree with you 100%, but that isn't what is going on inside the party. <BR/><BR/>If our party wasn't 100% focussed on winning elections, but had a broader calling that hearkened back to what the precincts used to be, I could see your point. But, keeping people out of being involved in the party because of where they live is a mistake.<BR/><BR/>I wish we could have both, a civic focussed party with merit participation.Emmetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06489372248577177410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846164.post-1163371993237418912006-11-12T14:53:00.000-08:002006-11-12T14:53:00.000-08:00Emmett,<BR/>I happen to disagree.<BR/><BR/>Jefferson believed that the strongest portion of our government should reside in the ward, which is what the precincts are equivalent to today.<BR/><BR/>The power of the precinct-based organizing is that you are being good neighbors. Caring for one another.<BR/><BR/>Ways to organize the precinct are as simple as crime-watch, emergency management, babysitting co-ops or other non-evasive 'things we all agree on' platforms.<BR/><BR/>By doing so you are building community, building diversity and building a better nation.<BR/><BR/>It's a matter of out-neighboring the R's.Nathenoreply@blogger.com