John Wisniewski, what's your plan?

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Jan 20, 2010 at 12:00:00 PM EST

But what I want to know, is where Wisniewski wants to take us, and how. I'm less interested in the personalities of who leads the state party than in what - specifically - they're doing to change party infrastructure and methods. Transparency. Platform. Outreach.

I'll tell you a story of something I got very wrong, before I got it right. I host Hunterdon DFA, and I'm one of the people who organized the state DFA-NJ. It would have killed Howard Dean if the surging grass/netroots organizing that grew up behind his campaign came to a dead stop after he stopped running, as Democratic organizing so often peters out behind unsuccessful candidates. So Democracy for America was born. And in the early days of it, some of us got a call: What did we think of Howard Dean running for DNC Chair? Well. I was against it - a solid no. I wanted Dean to re-emerge as candidate for president, again.

But when I took the question to Hunterdon DFA, they set me straight: If we don't have somebody who can fix the party infrastructure, who can change everything, we won't win anything - not the White House, or the House, or the Senate.

Lightbulb. Really, sometimes I can be so slow.

When Howard Dean ran for DNC Chair, he ran on a clear organizing principle: Reform Democratic spending and focus; less to hidebound inside-Beltway consultants, and more to training and underwriting energetic organizers to fan out and work locally (thank you). End the focus on "target" races only; concede no voter, no District, no state.

He told everybody what he was running on. It was out on the table. And he was right. So, John Wisniewski, I want to know your plan.

Taking my lesson from Hunterdon DFA, the challenge NJ Dems face is every bit as critical as the Bush White House that Dean stared down. The vectors aren't ours right now. NJGOP has a reason to live for the first time in a decade of looking stupid. They're high on life, and we are not. We face a GOP executive riding high. And the rootin'-tootin' corruption shooter Chris Christie is our boots 'n spurs tough-talking George W. Bush. The wind isn't going to shift in our direction without change from within. I think we're owed hearing how Wisniewski is going to be New Jersey's Howard Dean.

This is in no way an indictment of Joe Cryan, who I like a great deal. And I was in the room for this meeting too, and I agree about the man Wisniewski is. This isn't personal.

The NJDSC will have a Vice-Chair, too. I'm told in confidence it's likely to be someone I know. I hope she comes forward with her proposals, too, and I hope I never see anything like this happen again. And Steve Sweeney, with the awesome party power of his office, will I hope also be public about how he can and will change the party's paradigm.

Assemblyman, that's what I want to know.

Blue Jersey, what do you want to know?

An Open Letter to the next Democratic State Chair

by: Rosi Efthim

Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 11:12:43 AM EST

But no matter who it turns out to be, there are a few things I want to put on the table. I didn't always agree with Chairman Joe Cryan, but I can't imagine anyone more driven, more alive, and more vibrant in the pursuit of victories. I hope the next Chair has a lot of Cryan's qualities, and maybe a little of his swagger too. I admire him. And looking ahead now, a few suggestions for whoever the next Chair is:

Pretend you're Howard Dean
When Howard Dean became DNC Chair, he presided over a transformation in the way the party spent money (on local organizing, not pricey beltway consultants), and a shift in the culture from over-reliance in high Democratic performance areas/states to not conceding any voter, or any state, anywhere. We won everything on the back of that seismic shift. I'd love to see that here.  But more importantly, I hope the next Chair has their own clearly defined idea of what the NJ Democratic Party can be. Imagine something different, cast that line far out in the water, and change everything. Because there's a lot in this party that needs to change, and everybody knows it. Imagine what's possible statewide like Dean did nationally. Stick to your guns, and surprise the hell out of everybody. Because that's what it's going to take.

Aggressively pursue 21-County Strategy
Concede no voter. Concede no town. Concede no county. Be the sharpest, cleanest party with a mission that can be understood all over the state. And remember that red county parties need more resources to crack open those places and bring change.  And in an atmosphere of crushing GOP infrastructure, the Chairs, county committees and candidates need all the training, and connection you can give them. Form a Red County Task Force at NJDSC.

Exist between elections for people - Have cool events
NJDSC needs a vibrant events arm. Issues Town Halls, Democrat-sponsored book talks with authors on book tours, movies outside in a park in Trenton, or against an outside wall in Jersey City or Camden. Brainstorm. Keep the idea of Democrat alive in people's minds. Then employ or implore the people who can do it.

Get the Dem State Conference out of Atlantic City, and out of September
I'll say this as plainly as I can: It's insane to take 1,000 of the state's most passionate Dems out of play for a whole half-week just as the rest of the electorate is waking up to the fact that there are candidates running. Move the thing to late spring/early summer (after the non-partisan elections). Nothing against AC, but move it out of there or at least revolve it all over NJ.
Make it a grassroots event, not an insiders' schmoozefest.
Move it to a college campus.
Make it a convention, not a conference. Use the opportunity to develop platform, bump up training, and let the people in attendance help set the direction of the party by involving them in decision-making, platform-writing.
Make part of the convention open source. Some of the most exciting meetings in the country are run this way.

Listen to The Citizens Campaign
New Jersey has an idea factory for vibrant civic engagement and good government. They're about clean, fair politics, and they have the sharpest tools in the toolbox to get us there. They don't work for you - and that's good - but they have all the answers. Same suggestion, by the way, for my GOP brothers and sisters.

Play with New Media
Webinars for skills-building. Twitter. Show up on political blogs. Write an internship for a vlogger to travel the state and make short videos asking people why they're Democrats, or interview vets about the country they fought for, interview workers on labor issues. Experiment. Do stuff I haven't thought of. This won't cost you much, if anything. It's not about that. Do it right and it'll be fun, and make people see you differently.

Give the party a platform
Let the pro-choice ones battle the anti-choice side. Hash out differences on taxes. Make your stand clear on home rule. The party needs to stand for something, and voters need to see what that is. And not inconsequentially, active Democrats need a voice in setting your direction. That's their route in, how they can buy-in to who the New Jersey Democrats will be.

Transparency
You have a nifty website. But it doesn't do enough. Publish the DNC bylaws, NJSDC bylaws and bylaws of every county party. Everybody needs to know the rules, and how to work them to get done what they want to. Knowing the rules levels the playing field, and if you want us to believe that Democratic is also democratic, you're going to want to level that field.

Post on your site every member of every Democratic County Committee and how to reach that person. This party should make it easy for Democrats to see who's supposed to be doing the work where they live, and if that person's unresponsive, then the party should make easy for someone to challenge and contribute that work.

Let young people in
I know the party celebrates its youngest. But I think we can be doing more to provide opportunities, access and resources to them - to College Dems, to Young Dems and to the high school kids working their hearts out in local Dem HQs all over the state. Create committees for them to serve, with real participation, direction and responsibility. Ask the Cory Bookers and the Loretta Weinbergs and the Steve Sweeneys of this party to host Open Houses for kids interested in politics, if they're not already doing that. Do what we did in the 2005 Corzine Connection part of his campaign: host First-Time Voter events where 18-year olds get access to your Senators, your congressmen, your stars. When national political hotshots come here, don't just run a fundraiser, tack on a free event for young people to meet that person and ask questions. Be creative. See where kids get interested, then find ways to up the ante for them. Above all, listen to them. In about 5 minutes, they're going to be running the show. Invest now.

That's it for now. There will be more. This is an Open Thread.  

Thanks for what?

by: rachael'sdad

Sat Nov 07, 2009 at 11:33:15 AM EST

Is it for buying a Senate seat in 2000?

Is it for turning the balance of power in the state's political dynamic towards the bosses that backed Jim McGreevey, enabling him to run unopposed in 2001 instead of being challenged by former Morris County Prosecutor, Michael Murphy, who earned the attention of a lot of people during the 1997 Democratic gubernatorial primary as a result of his candor, honesty, and solid, third-place showing in that year's gubernatorial primary without the support of a single Democratic machine?

They will try to Wellstone Ted Kennedy. Don't let them.

by: Rosi Efthim

Fri Aug 28, 2009 at 03:45:14 PM EDT

That struck me. I count two things as the engines behind everything I'm doing in politics right now. Howard Dean's What I want to know ... speech. And the massive arena celebration of the lives of Paul & Sheila Wellstone. Sen. Wellstone was not perfect; he was not angelic. But what he was, was brave. An ordinary, everyday guy with a Minnesota Senate seat.

Ted Kennedy was a very different guy. Tried most of his life to connect with the ordinary. And you bet there's going to be an effort to remind grieving congressional Democrats that health care was the cause of Kennedy's life. They'd better damn well pass it. And there's no way the right will not challenge that.

The answer to that question - How long? - is now. Today, Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Wellstone's memorial, that arena brimming with people who knew early that change was coming, and there was work to be done. Forward-thinkers, progressives, and fearless local organizers. There was more loss, and backlash, before there was winning. But that memorial - those people, those speeches - meant everything to me. And I can't just sit and listen to what was just said on the radio, without saying this:

Paul Wellstone didn't die. Not like they wanted him to.

He's now called Wellstone Action.
He's called Democracy for America.
You can call him the 2008 Senate, House & White House, if progressive.
He's called Barack Obama. Called Michelle Obama. Aim higher, he'd say.
He is called first-time voters, and change.
Canvasser. Phonebanker. Local organizer.
He's called Organizing for America. PDA.
Union.
They call him janitor, and educator, and factory worker. New immigrant.
He is called the Congressional Black Caucus, and Progressive Caucus.
He's the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and those who didn't made it.
He's a first-time candidate, who thinks politics isn't about winning, it's about improving people's lives.
He's not going to let up on Marriage Equality.
He demands the public option.
He's called the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party.
And he's called 50-State Strategy.
He is called Loretta Weinberg.
Paul Wellstone is called Senator Al Franken now.

And he's called Blue Jersey.

Take that, Rush Limbaugh. You disrespectful son of a bitch.

from Netroots Nation - Howard Dean Health Care Reform Town Hall

by: Rosi Efthim

Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 09:36:17 AM EDT

Do you have questions you want to hear from Gov. Dean on? Even if you're not here, you can tweet your question for him by using this hashtag: #DeanNN

We're in the car, on the way to Netroots Nation

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 09:15:00 AM EDT

This morning, clammyc and I are hitting the road on the way to beautiful Pittsburgh and Netroots Nation 09. I'm stoked.

I'm going as one of Democracy for America's Netroots Nation Scholars. DFA has this fabulous competitive program to underwrite costs for people they think ought to have that opportunity. It's a savvy way of undescoring deep ties between grassroots political organizers and those of us who ride the interwebs. I'm very lucky they chose me. (Shrugs.)

If you've got the means, throw DFA some coin. They're sending 40 of us this year to NN09- and that's all expenses paid.

Last year, they sent 30. On of them was Jeff Gardner, my buddy and a denizen of this site, and of DFA-NJ, like I am. There was a friendly, but cutthroat competition for votes with one Robert Harding at The Albany Project, which Jeff won, being that he's awesome. Don't worry, Robert got to go, too.

Clammyc's an old hand at NN, and he's participating in a session on red districts (for the fighting NJ-5) and moderating this one on PTSD.

Saturday, we'll be there to greet Governor Corzine, headlining the keynote panel, on 21st Century economy. It's a great "get" for Netroots Nation. With just two big state races this year - NJ & VA - the Republicans are focusing a lot of resources here to try and climb out of their hole. That's a story every blogger at NN09 is going to know. (Barring last-minute surprise, Creigh Deeds, running for the open seat in VA, won't be there).

Bill Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and Howard Dean are also coming. Here's the full schedule. And some vid from past NNs.

Blue Jersey's friends TJ and Ian are coming. You going? It's not too late - drop us a note  here, so we can be on the lookout for you.

Here we go!

Last Chance To Get Discounted DemocracyFest Tickets!

by: Deaniac

Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 05:36:10 PM EDT

The 6th Annual DemocracyFest will be held July 17th-19th at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, VT!

Full event tickets are only $55 until July 1st and include all speakers, trainings and entertainment, plus dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. Ticket price increases to $65 on July 1st, so get your ticket today! http://www.DemocracyFest.net

Gov. Howard Dean will join other exciting speakers and trainers including Gov. Madeleine Kunin, Sen. Mike Gravel, Sen. Doug Racine, Sen. Hinda Miller, Mayor Bob Kiss, Rep. Michael Fisher, Rep. David Zuckerman, Rep. Sandy Haas, and Dr. Deb Richter. Plus there will be entertainment by musicians Rebecca Padula, Bobby Kendes, Subway Serenade and Axiomatic, comedy by Rep. Jason Lorber, film screenings, book signings, many tabling organizations and vendors, silent auction, children's' activities area, and much more!

For more information about the event, and to get your tickets, please go to http://www.DemocracyFest.net

Stand With Dr. Dean: Get Answers From Our Senators

by: Hopeful

Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 03:25:38 PM EDT

Howard Dean at TCNJ

by: georgeboff

Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 08:47:10 PM EDT

Howard Dean's in New Jersey tonight

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 01:34:29 PM EDT

Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, DNC Chair, DFA founder, and strong proponent of a public option to safeguard American health care needs, is in New Jersey and speaking tonight at a free public event at Kendall Hall, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). More info here.

TCNJ College Democrats are the sponsor of tonight's event and they promise there will be time for an extensive Q & A with Gov. Dean.

TCNJ students will be admitted for seating one hour before the general public, at 6:30pm.

I know I can't get there tonight, as part of my family is celebrating Passover. But if you go, Blue Jersey would love to hear about it, and see your pictures.  

Last night's DFA parties in NJ & Howard Dean's new mission

by: Rosi Efthim

Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 03:43:57 PM EDT

Last night, Howard Dean rolled out an initiative on health care on the occasion of his return to the organization he founded - Democracy for America - and its fifth birthday. NJ DFA members and allies, including Gov. Corzine, were at gatherings all over the state and connected on a national conference call.

There was outrage in some quarters when President Obama passed Dean over for HHS Secretary once, then again. But Dean has a history of walking right past disappointment and finding alternative ways to make change. This time he navigates right between those demanding nothing less than single-payer and the culture of those worried that that would mean losing their own insurance options, and suggests we can accommodate both.

Dean lauded President Obama's actions on health care reform, and the president's assertion that those who like their current health insurance policies should be able to keep them. Dean's focus is on pressuring Congress to make sure there is a public insurance option for those who cannot get, or cannot afford private health insurance. An option to buy-in to a Medicare-style insurance coverage.

The health care system is broken, even for those who are covered, some of whom find themselves denied coverage when they get sick, can't get coverage for pre-existing conditions, or get private insurance where their dollars are funneled into profit-making for the insurance company. We know that, and it's revolting, that this country cannot do better.

Dean anticipates using DFA's million-strong email list to generate a quarter-million petition signatures, clearly aiming to pressure Congress for a public option, and perhaps to encourage Obama not to step back in that resolve. Much of DFA's focus over the next year will be about this, including here, with canvasses, house parties and lobbying among the tactics.

Sign the petition.

New Jersey was well-noticed in last night's Dean hook-up. There were several mentions that Corzine was in attendance, at the party in Hawthorne organized by Jeff Gardner, where Corzine spoke for 30 minutes in a packed house of about 75 people. And DFA presented three stories, recorded in the voice of DFA activists, telling Dean what he's missed since he's been gone from DFA for 4 years. One of them was mine, about how we used both DFA and Dean's 50-State Strategy to win in crimson red Flemington. The New Jersey story and the rest of the call are here.

Full-disclosure: Jeff Gardner & I are both co-Chairs of DFA-NJ, and staff members here. Blue Jersey & DFA are separate entities, but there sure is a lot of cross-over.

Happy 5th Birthday DFA - Corzine to Join the Celebration!

by: Jeff Gardner

Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 11:25:45 AM EDT

DFA is celebrating its 5th birthday tonight, Wednesday, March 25th, and, well, here's what DFA founder Howard Dean has to say about it:

It is hard to believe it's been five years since I founded Democracy for America. I came back to an organization even larger than when I left. The original Dean Dozen has turned into over 575 progressive candidates successfully elected in positions up and down the ballot. They've started a training program that has trained over 20,000 activists and candidate in the skills to win. It is great to be working with DFA again.

So, in celebration of DFA's 5th Birthday, and Howard Dean's return, there are house parties tonight across the nation, including 5 parties here in New Jersey, where DFA members, friends and supporters are gathering for a look back at the successes of the last 5 years, and a look ahead to what's next. Governor Corzine is coming to the party in Hawthorne, and of course, the Blue Jersey community is invited to attend any one of the parties:

We're partying in Clinton,... and Hoboken,... and West Orange,.. and Red Bank! ... Yeeargggghh!! (Ok, I couldn't resist.)

Gov. Dean, along with DFA Chair Jim Dean and other special guests will be on a live conference call beginning at 9:00 p.m. to link all the parties together. Wherever you live, find the party nearest you, and join us.

And, even if you can't get to a party in person, you can listen to the call online, or call in yourself:

Call-in number - (888) 346-3950
Passcode - 5661518 #

We have much to celebrate - Happy Birthday DFA!

Howard Dean's midday rally at Netroots Nation

by: mitch

Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 05:40:59 PM EDT

Part 2

Enjoy Blue Jerseyians !

Allow me to introduce you to Professor George Lakoff

by: Jeff Gardner

Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 04:30:00 AM EDT

Hi again, from Netroots Nation. Hey, are you busy today at 5:30p EDT? Because, Professor George Lakoff will be here in Austin with Democracy for America, presenting a special afternoon edition of DFA Night School.

Howard Dean called Professor George Lakoff "One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement."  Professor Lakoff returns to DFA Night School as we go live from Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas for this hour long online training. We'll discuss his latest book, The Political Mind, and the frames and metaphors we need to use to win in November.

Kempner wants DNC retroactive rule change

by: Juan Melli

Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 07:15:49 PM EDT

The resolution notes that the undersigners include "many leaders and financial supporters" of the DNC. [...]

Kempner said he sent the petition to thousands of Democratic donors and activists. In his e-mail to them, he calls Obama's "tactics" in "seeking to disenfranchise more than two million voters in Florida and Michigan" those of "division and deception."

"For whatever reason, the DNC seems to be captive of the Obama campaign," he said in an interview. "The fact is that many, many long-time supporters both financially and non-financially, that have a very different point of view. We very much want to put them on notice."

This sounds a lot like the letter from the wealthy pro-Clinton DCCC fundraisers to Nancy Pelosi threatening to take their ball and go home if she doesn't renounce her position that superdelegates should respect the democratic will of the voters. Of course, she rightly told them to go fly a kite.

Although Kempner says that "the genesis for the idea came out of a meeting of the campaign's finance committee a few weeks ago," he insists it "should not be interpreted by DNC chairman Howard Dean as a threat to withhold donations."

Got that? The campaign's biggest fundraisers came up with the idea, but really - no, seriously! - this has nothing to do with money. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

One of the great things about Dean's 50 state strategy and the DNC's Democracy Bonds program is that they've become better at raising money from small-dollar donors. Wealthy power brokers can implicitly or explicitly threaten all they want, but their leverage over the last few years has been significantly diminished. I'd be really surprised if Dean agreed to their retroactive rule change request.

Update: Chris Bowers makes a good point:

That's all well and good, but did it ever occur to these geniuses to actually send the letter to the people with actual purview over the matter? This is just a suggestion, but maybe, just maybe, instead of sending the letter to Howard Dean, they should send it to the rules committee which stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, to the members of the credentials committee who will hold jurisdiction over the matter, or to Nancy Pelosi, who will chair the convention itself. You know, the people with actual power over the matter.

Oh wait--doing that would require sending the letter to people like Harold Ickes, a member of Clinton's campaign and the DNC rules committee who voted to strip Michigan and Florida of their delegates. I guess it would look kind of strange for the Clinton campaign to be sending petitions to members of its own campaign. So, instead of sending the petition to people who actually hold purview over the matter, they have decided instead to scapegoat Howard Dean.

Howard, We've Got a Problem.

by: Jeff Gardner

Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 05:58:07 PM EST

At the Top of the Seventh Inning you don't change the agreed upon team rules that were set down and made clear from the start.

Michigan and Florida made choices and the DNC made a declaration...

To seat them now and after the fact ... is a very dangerous road to travel down and will lead to all kinds of conflict and a weakening and discrediting of the DNC.

I started to write a comment, but rather than hijack the thread, I thought this was worthy of a new diary, because for all the recent talk of superdelegates overturning the popular vote of the people, I see a much larger problem brewing when the DNC and Howard Dean seek to enforce their proposed calendar sanctions on these two states.

Here's the problem: "Michigan" and "Florida" didn't "make choices" - party insiders in those states made choices. Bad ones it turns out. Many of these party insiders are the same superdelegates whose choices progressive groups - including Moveon.org and Democracy for America - are arguing now should not be allowed to overturn the popular vote. Who could argue with that logic? Notwithstanding the obvious seventh-inning rule change this in itself would be, we're democrats - and our sense of democracy should place the will of the voters over the undemocratic decisions of a handful of party insiders. So, what's the problem?

Well, Michigan, we can all agree is a mess, because no one was on the ballot but Hillary. More than likely Obama (if not Edwards) would have won the state in a real contest. Given that background, It will be difficult for Hillary to win an argument that Michigan's pledged delegates should play a role in selecting the nominee. (And a rerun is likely out of the question - first, because the Michigan democratic party doesn't want a rerun; and second, because although Obama would likely do well, he needs to hold tight to the "rulebreakers don't get a say" position to prevent the looming Florida problem.) While over half a million people voted in the democratic primary there, they didn't have a real choice to make.

But, Florida? That's where the blood is going to spill. Because the candidates were on the ballot, and (mutual accusations of minor toe-dipping aside), they refrained from active campaigning there. Yet, still, more than 1.7 million democrats voted in the Florida primary. That broke the state's previous record set in 1988, and amounted to more voters than participated in the democratic contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina combined.

Those voters didn't make a choice to break any rules. The only choice they made was to go ahead and participate in their state's primary in record numbers.

Now, maybe this will all be moot if one or the other candidates sweeps through the remaining contests to build up an inpenetrable delegate lead. But, if not, how exactly does the DNC plan to ignore the majority will of 1.7 million voters when the only people who chose to break the rules were a handful of Florida's democratic party insiders?

Start fighting.

50 State Strategy in Your Neighborhood

by: Jorge C. Santos

Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 03:37:36 PM EST

As New Jersey's Super Tuesday results showed, big-time, voters from both red and blue parts of the state are participating at record levels. And we have a bumper-crop of hundreds of thousands of new Democrats.  But all this phenomenal participatory democracy needs local leadership to follow-up and keep it hot. DNC Chair Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy has been a fight-everywhere movement to recognize and give tools to grassroots power. And in that spirit, I want to let you know about a program that the DNC is putting into place with the NJ
Democratic State Committee.

It's designed to put the 50-State Strategy right into your own hands, and in your own neighborhood. This is a direct invitation to all active Democrats. We're hoping you can help us build something extraordinary.

It's called the Neighborhood Leader Program.  The work of Neighborhood Leaders is simple - they'll each talk to 25 voters at least three times before Election Day 2008, and they'll recruit two more people to become Neighborhood Leaders as well. It's very doable and we can walk you through it.

The success of the Neighborhood Leader Program lies directly in the method of voter contact - direct, personal conversations with voters at the door or on the phone.  Every campaign knows that these are the most effective ways of communicating with and persuading swing voters. Personal communication works better than TV ads, better than mailers, better than robocalls - it's the essence of grassroots politics.

Democratic Party staffers, like me, are working across the country organizing house parties and meet ups to train local activists in the program.  By Election Day, there will be tens if not hundreds of thousands of these Neighborhood Leaders across the country with a big chunk right here in the Garden State.

This is designed so that you can have maximum impact in your own neighborhood, with no time wasted. As a Neighborhood Leader, you agree to be the Democratic contact for your little group of target voters, and - this is important - it will also work the other way around, so that you're representing those voters to the Democratic Party. You agree to reach out to your voter group three times between now and Election Day- the time commitment is about an hour week for three weeks spread over the course of the 2008 campaign.  In some cases, you will be the only contact these voters have with the Democratic Party.  You will be helping the entire slate of Democratic candidates in your area from President to Senate to Congress and the local level.

Lists, lit pieces, scripts and other materials will be sent out from the NJ DSC and you can always call or email with any questions you might have about the program.

I hope to hear from you soon!

Jorge Santos
NJ Democratic State Committee
609.392.3367
jsantos@njdems.org

Should NJ Have A Presidential Caucus Instead of a Primary?

by: rachael'sdad

Mon Dec 03, 2007 at 11:01:32 PM EST

Howard Dean is coming for breakfast

by: Rosi Efthim

Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 05:00:27 PM EDT

Chairman Dean

Dean's faced down criticism from 2006 DCCC Chair Rep. Rahm Emanuel, and a howling call for his resignation from the DNC Chairmanship from (Hillary Clinton supporter) James Carville. In his paradigm-shifting 50-State Strategy, which shifts money and power out of the beltway over to state and local organizing, Dean's found his first line of defense in the netroots and in the grassroots. And 50-State Strategy means something in New Jersey.

This is breakfast. For $35 bucks, with the money going to NJSDC. Event details here.

Continuing the Fifty State Strategy

by: JRB

Sat Jul 28, 2007 at 05:02:26 PM EDT