Candidates Working Together. What a Concept!
Apparently, some 2008 congressional candidates are working together on a little project:
Burner and her colleagues, including other Blue Majority candidates (and winners!) Donna Edwards and Eric Massa, are trying something new: creating a caucus of challengers working across the country on the same plan, with the same goal–ending the Iraq war in 2009. They’re not only making a strong pledge to the voters in their districts that they’ll do everything in their power to end this war; they’re demonstrating now that they will be leaders in Congress.
Just imagine what the Freshman class of the 111th Congress is going to look like, is going to achieve, with these candidates as members.
Hopefully someone with a little more time than me will cover this plan, because it gives me hope– that dang boondoggle in Iraq has cost the US so much it severely limits our options for dealing with the oncoming (arrived?) recession.
(There’s plenty of other reasons the war was a mistake, but that reason’s the one that’s sticking in my craw at the moment.)
But what struck me about this was how the candidates are working together to come out with a plan and a coherent message. What if Dem candidates running for the county leg had done this last year? What if they’d come together with a plan or common positions, and create a couple radio, TV, or newspaper ads. Would that synergy have been the deciding factor in the Dunn-Yolevich race (180 vote margin), or the Nixon-Daniele race (110 vote margin)?
It certainly would’ve given immediate and obvious lie to the GOP talking point that GOP leader Steve Minarik parroted at the time, the the Dems are a party “bereft of ideas”.
Something to think about for next time.
Gee, What a concept. Message.
How about some charts and graphs next.
Didn’t you see the coordinated campaign?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y28ix4_E8bs
OMG! You had me going there. I thought I’d totally missed something last fall, and was expecting to see a video of 3 candidates all succinctly reinforcing the same values & message. LOL.
I’ll say one thing about Eric Massa. He reaches out to people and looks for opportunities to synergize. He never failed to acknowledge me in 2006, when we were at the same venue. A lot of candidates are too absorbed in their own agenda to do that. It was/is a logical extension of his natural tendencies to reach out and work in a coordinated way with neighboring candidates.
The greater message is that the only way the government can work “for the people” is by working together for the good “of the people”. Isn’t that what “we the people” want?
Creating a common message is fantastic. I always wondered why one Dem running an uphill battle wins after focusing like a lazer on a clear consistent theme and that others in much friendlier turf snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with a poor message. If I were running, I would gladly adopt the positions common to my fellow party candidates and run with that single strong message! I hope all the named candidates in this post join Donna Edwards in congress come January 09!