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In reply to the discussion: If You Think the Democratic Party Is Not Doing Its Job, [View all]Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)I was a member of my county DEC for 4 years, and as fast as energetic, young new members would join, the party would run them out. It's more of a social club than a political party. I was co-managing a congressional a few years back, and we were qualifying for the ballot by petition. We needed 6,000 of them from registered voters in the district. One Republican Statehouse candidate (a former Democrat who these clowns ran out) got us more signed cards than 8 county DEC's combined.
On the state level, they only support cronies. Our Party Chair is a former ChoicePoint lobbyist (remember the voter purge lists in 2000?) who is married for an attorney who represented the Bush side in Bush v Gore. Yet, she was the hand-picked choice of C-Street Family member and Super Duper Liberal Senator Bill Nelson.
Sorry, but we tried. And I won't associate myself with these incompetent, corrupt buffoons any longer. They can't recruit any credible progressive candidates. Some of them even donate money to Republicans. And when a good candidate comes along, they put a knife in his back.
Our former county chair was so incompetent and corrupt, but highly skilled in ass-kissing that she was appointed to a State Vice-Chair position.
That's the sad reality of Our state and county parties.