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KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
24. Invest Wisely...
Sat Apr 12, 2014, 09:47 AM
Apr 2014

...I don't give money to a national party or campaign. All my efforts go locally...let the high rollers pay for the teevee commercials, I have found far better returns in my donations and time in canvassing and working on campaigns on the local level. That's where the change can and must begin...develop a deeper bench, a stronger party and with it, promoting more progressive candidates. $500 to a Hillary Clinton is chump change, but for a local congresscritter or state rep it'll but a lot of yard signs or cover the rent on a campaign office. It's all about what you put in is equal to what you get back. Stay on the sidelines and be uninvolved and let the others who are win the elections and further the economic disparity. The mess this country is in didn't happen overnight and it'll take years and lots of hard fought elections if there's ever to be a positive change...

Roberts' Rules. GeorgeGist Apr 2014 #1
Third Way mantra........ socialist_n_TN Apr 2014 #35
And, of course, Rahm has that "D" after his name, so if he was running for anything, djean111 Apr 2014 #2
He Is Running...For Re-Election in 2015 KharmaTrain Apr 2014 #3
"Well funded", aye, there's the rub! Divernan Apr 2014 #4
I have noticed that the fund-raising requests I get now inform me that people like me will djean111 Apr 2014 #7
No Bucks...No Buck Rogers... KharmaTrain Apr 2014 #12
I am quite honestly starting to feel really played, concerning the money. djean111 Apr 2014 #14
I feel your pain. ctsnowman Apr 2014 #20
Invest Wisely... KharmaTrain Apr 2014 #24
Anyone being funded by Corporations doesn't need OUR money. And the more they are getting sabrina 1 Apr 2014 #58
The SC decision was only about federal elections. former9thward Apr 2014 #32
Thank you for pointing that out. Divernan Apr 2014 #36
Toni Prenwinkle is leading Rahm by hefty margins in recent polls alcibiades_mystery Apr 2014 #8
tony is not running. just stop that. mopinko Apr 2014 #9
Let's hope Obama campaigns... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2014 #11
I doubt that. former9thward Apr 2014 #33
Obama wasn't subtle and it wasn't under... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Apr 2014 #49
"I think he would be an excellent mayor," Obama said on ABC's Good Morning America. Divernan Apr 2014 #52
Why would this surprise anyone. 99Forever Apr 2014 #5
No, we need to realize he is a Democrat, he may be the worst but is only one of many like him. A Simple Game Apr 2014 #13
If you think that puke is a Democrat... 99Forever Apr 2014 #15
he's my mayor. mopinko Apr 2014 #22
So be it. 99Forever Apr 2014 #30
He's my mayor too, and I think he sucks ASS kysrsoze Apr 2014 #46
i have a soft spot for jerks. mopinko Apr 2014 #60
He calls himself a Democrat and our President believed he was a Democrat when he hired him A Simple Game Apr 2014 #26
I think we are very much... 99Forever Apr 2014 #31
I think we are too. A Simple Game Apr 2014 #40
excuse me, but i do not support his "image" mopinko Apr 2014 #37
His "image" is that he is a Democrat. As for his policies and your loyalty to him, A Simple Game Apr 2014 #41
Well, he IS a Democrat, even the most conservative starve the schools steal the pensions Republican Dragonfli Apr 2014 #71
I agree with A Simple Game. It's important to recognize the enemy. A significant portion of "our" rhett o rick Apr 2014 #42
there really are moderate liberals. mopinko Apr 2014 #64
One can be moderate without being a corporatist. But corporatists can't hide behind rhett o rick Apr 2014 #66
i know. makes it hard on the true moderates. mopinko Apr 2014 #67
math is wrong Phil1934 Apr 2014 #6
sorry, i love david sirota, but this is just a hatchet job. mopinko Apr 2014 #10
Got a cite for any of those laws? FYI, I grew up in "Chicagoland" Divernan Apr 2014 #18
they are called tax increment funding districts. mopinko Apr 2014 #21
Well so far he has made a better case than you have. Do you have specifics to refute what rhett o rick Apr 2014 #43
It's actually a "TIF" fund and is meant to spur business kysrsoze Apr 2014 #57
i would prefer the approach that it was my understanding would be instituted- pb mopinko Apr 2014 #68
If Rahm "doing it right" means screwing poor & minorities, you are right. Divernan Apr 2014 #25
ugh. imho, karen lewis is a very poor union rep. she let it get personal. mopinko Apr 2014 #28
OMG! You criticize a union rep for being confrontational w/ the King of Confrontation! The hubris! Divernan Apr 2014 #45
she took it personal. mopinko Apr 2014 #59
Rahm Inherited A Mess... KharmaTrain Apr 2014 #27
reducing a city of 3 million mopinko Apr 2014 #39
Like his hypocritical education policy- opposite of his kids' elite private school. Divernan Apr 2014 #50
but mopinko Apr 2014 #65
...You seem to know a lot about Rahm Harry_Scrote Apr 2014 #56
he couldn't pick me out of a line up. never gave him a dime. mopinko Apr 2014 #61
You really are living in a dream world of your own making. former9thward Apr 2014 #38
Perhaps he/she lives in one of those posh enclaves on the Gold Coast or in Hyde Park? Divernan Apr 2014 #51
i live in a gritty neighborhood. mopinko Apr 2014 #62
i'll just say this mopinko Apr 2014 #63
Rahm's Shock Doctrine. marmar Apr 2014 #16
! + $1000000000.00 nt adirondacker Apr 2014 #44
Rahm in 2016? Puzzledtraveller Apr 2014 #17
What's he think he is running for, governor of NY? nt adirondacker Apr 2014 #19
it's a takeover...... blue mane Apr 2014 #23
They already are turning their backs on the poor. L0oniX Apr 2014 #48
Sounds like Rahm knows Gov. Kasich, R Ohio, following the same play book.nt Ninga Apr 2014 #29
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us cantbeserious Apr 2014 #34
This is where democracy fails. L0oniX Apr 2014 #47
. Wilms Apr 2014 #53
Birds of a feather, as they say, corporate-wise. Divernan Apr 2014 #55
But of course... its the DLC/Third Way. HooptieWagon Apr 2014 #54
And to think this swell fella was for several years the chief of staff for the President of the indepat Apr 2014 #69
I want to see the folks that Aerows Apr 2014 #70
Rahm Emanuel gives the Democratic Party a bad name. This corrupt jerk needs to go! emsimon33 Apr 2014 #72
Your source's maths is as screwed up as their insinuations. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #73
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