We’ve just added a chatroom to the homepage of Independent Political Report.
We’re going to leave this room active tonight for the debate and then through the nomination fight tomorrow. That way people can discuss in real-time while watching on C-SPAN. Or even from the convention itself, for any of the folks there with laptops and Wi-Fi connections.
If you have any problems using the room, please just post here and let me know.
2 responses so far ↓
1 trinman // May 24, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I HATE chatrooms, would rather use email. Justrs got in from a night’s work and caught only the closing comments of each debater. Now watching and taping the Chair debate so have no perspective yet on the prescon one. Impressions so far of this one: Ernie has the key in his hand if people are brave enough to consider it; Ruth is barely less a topdown bureaucrat than Redpath is;l and Bill R. is still the wrong answer.
As I recall it now, I worked fairly hard during my LNC stint to bring about four things: (1) a move away from the “member club” model and toward the “donor/contributor/pledger” one; (2) a shift from general revenues to project-based fundraising and spending [Note: we complain that there’s no accountability or control over where your money goes in tax dollars, yet the LP runs the same way?); (3) a break with the “revenue sharing” model of UMP; and (4) a compartmentalization of spending, so that money donated for a specific purpose could not be diverted to something else, leaving obligatory functions unfunded …
From the day he was appointed (not elected) to take over the Treasurer’s seat, Bill Redpath opposed pretty much all of this, and when he got tghe chance he basaically sabotaged the plrojectd model concept, ny demanding repayment for ballot access debts incurred while that project was supposed to be self-funding. I would never support him for anything again.
Listen to Ernie; he makes greats sense! We CAN become a self-governing entity, but only if we are willing to let the organization take a backseat, and become only a clearinghouse (not a command center … anyone recall when I ran for LNC At Large?)
2 trinman // May 25, 2008 at 2:54 am
would love to review the chat; not possible at present; i sther a trick teo moving the bar?
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