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He told me the same thing, that "I'd like to think that at the end of the day we'd all be Hillary supporters" and "it will all be over February 5."

My response was "YAWN! Anything else I can help you with, Jim?"

Let's all just work on making the caucuses successful, and on maximizing turnout for volunteer recruitment. Kainber has his job to do and we have ours. Let's not make more of it than there is.
 

If perception is reality, then the world must be flat and the sun must revolve around it.

Top down approaches like this are something I would expect from a Conservative Republican campaign, not a Progressive Democratic campaign.  Telling, isn't it.

If Hillary is the nominee, I will work to put a Progressive Congress into office so that we'll have enough votes to ensure a VETO OVERRIDE on H.R. 676.  I'm just saying.

Dave Gibney Pullman

Sadly, this approach often works.  It is anti-democratic.  People aren't fooled. They know this is going on.  

Are we seeing the rise of a democracy movement that will move us beyond this?  I see hopeful signs that this may be the case.

Philip Morris
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller#Burson_Marsteller.2C_the_Tobacco_Indust ry_and_Campaigns_on_Secondhand_Smoke

Entergy Nuclear and its little problem with their cooling towers collapsing on their nuclear power plant in Vermont
http://lisarainwater.com/lisar/Media_files/(Un)Safe,%20(Un)Secure,%20and%20(Not)Vital_%20Marketing%20a%20Nuclear%20Power%20Plant.pdf

Three-Mile Island 1979 accident
http://archive.corporatewatch.org/magazine/issue2/cw2f2.html

Union Carbide and its Bhopal chemical disaster in India 20 years ago
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/01/09/bhopl.DTL&type=printable

The government of Saudi Arabia three days after 9/11, embarrassed by the hijackers being mostly Saudi
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/end_terror.html

Former Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu
http://home.intekom.com/tm_info/ge_bm.htm

The military junta that overthrew the government of Argentina in 1976
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/26/reviews/980426.26rosenbt.html?_r=1=slogin

The government of Indonesia, perpetrators of genocide in East Timor
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pilger_John/Arms_Generals_DV.html

Their newest marquee public relations client--Blackwater mercenaries
http://www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/104

And don't forget that Burson-Marsteller has long bragged about its successful tactics for countering union organizing
http://workingcalifornians.com/tags/mark_penn

I want to assure you that this directive did not come from the Hillary Clinton campaign. I am very active in the campaign in California and no one has been told to say anything remotely like this. In fact, we are told to act like we are behind and to take nothing for granted. Polls in this state have Hillary up by 25 to 30 points and we are still actively campaigning.

I agree with Peter that Jim should have asked what he could do to connect to the grass roots, although you would think that with Jim's so-called experience he would have known what to do.

Just like the Washington State Dean campaign in 2004, don't always  judge the campaign by it's workers.

I am a  36th LD Dem, having just moved from the
43rd, and have been following this conversation.
I did military family outreach for John Kerry
from National and was a coordinated campaigner in
WV.  I had a chance to learn and execute a
typical ID and persuasion phone call effort.

Sounds like Jim Kainber was following standard
practices in his phone calls to LD chairs.  An
organized and well executed strategy for
identifying Dems, getting them excited about a
candidate and getting them to the caucuses is a
good thing in my book.  It is realistic to begin
a bit of consensus building and even persuasion
as we look toward the caucus and beyond for the 08 election.  

As a grass roots organizer for a Veterans &
Military Families group (my hubby was activated
with an Army Reserve unit from Seattle), I think
that some of the posters on this thread should be
aware that the terms "activist" and "grass roots"
belong to a very diverse set of Dems.

As a note, I have had very positive interactions
with Jim Kainber both when I volunteered at the
WA Dem Awards at Benaroya Hall when Senator
Clinton was in town and also today at the Team
Hillary Training today.  

Today was a very positive experience and a little
less than half of the attendees had never been to
a caucus or volunteered for a campaign before.  
These are energetic individuals and consistent
voters whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is
taking them to the next level.  

Jim delivered an excellent training about the
entire caucus system, and I assure you, the Feb.
9 caucus was stressed as very important, both by
Jim and the two Clinton staffers sent from
National.  There were thirteen 36th LD dems who
invested all of Saturday to benefit from the
caucus training offered by Jim Kainber et.al.  We
were encouraged to attend Thursday evening
monthly meetings with our 36th friends and
neighbors and get involved in a variety of races
and issues.

The Democratic Party will only benefit from the
investment Jim Kainber is making in getting a new
breed of activists involved in the party though
campaign training and caucus organizing.  These
well trained Dems will graduate from this
election with strong skill sets that will benefit
our party for years to come.

Regards,
Julie Tackett
Greenwood

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