Reply #26: Here's an idea: get connected with the meetup folks!

[DagmarK]

I mean, there's over 70K dem meetup members there..and they are all plenty fed up with Bush.

But I honestly think it would be wise to have ONE rule and that is to NOT use this event to campaign for any dem candidate ...so that we are out there as regular citizens NOT as folks who might be polarized toward one policy or candidate or another. We gave to be careful because Dean commands more than 95% of all dem meetup members.....and we don't want it to turn into a Dean event (or a kerry event or any candidate event).

But the idea of using the meetup site might be wise. For two reasons: 1) we could contact the meetup groups for ALL dem candidates and email them to see if they are game for a protest; and 2) we could actually start a meetup group specifically for protesting Bush. (Now, we would have to do it according to their rules.....which means you have to have a meeting 1 week a month.....but why not meetup about this every month? It isn't like we are going to run out of reasons to protest Bush until the day he is thrown out of office.)

So......that's a thought. The only downside is that Dean has infinitely and astronomically more meetup folks than any other candidate. I am totally for Dean, but this protest absolutely shouldn't become a Dean event. It's for ANY american (republican or otherwise) who has something to express about this. And we need to keep this pure. (I think the Dean people would be cool with that one rule.)