Reply #169: Your frustration over this is clouding your better judgment. [View All]

[ReadTomPaine]

For a person who has taken the time to express how complex this issue is, you display a remarkably simplistic view of Ms. Brazile and the larger issue of voting rights and reform. How is it helpful to blame the victims of voting fraud instead of its perpetrators? How was it helpful to election reform to spend time demolishing the issue and demoralizing fellow Democrats before supporting it?

You speak of her commitment as if you know it exists, but her passion for these matters is unknown. Her current rhetoric is all that we have in hand, and that's simply not enough given her ridicule of these issues historically outweighs any recent zeal she may have found it profitable to discover. Any altruism you attribute to her hasn't been earned by either history or action, it's just wishful thinking.

The only cure you will find for your frustration is success and I'm sorry to say that her record of winning such fights isn't a good one. You won't find relief you seek from her. I'd rather have an effective spokesperson behind these efforts than an ineffective one with dubious motives and shady connections. Again - I bring up Bev Harris as the perfect example of what happens when the wrong people are brought into the voting reform movement, esp at a steering level.

You and I may know what matters, but to Donna, it's the money and the access that matter. That's the way she's always been and there's every indication that's the way she will always be. An easy measure of this is the fact that she selected herself for the job. Surely she's aware of her credibility problems in this area yet she could find no one in politics better suited to the task at hand than herself. Do you really thing she had voting reform rather than her own career in mind when she made that choice? It would be naive to think that is the case when the reality of her political career is staring you in the face.

In the future, it would be wise to place your bets on horses that win races, rather than betting on ones that lose. Then you'll have the money and feel good about it afterward.