Posted on 10/08/2008 12:20:38 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Zero should ask Gunga Dan Rather about what it’s like being on the business end of the Pajamadeen.
Make sure all of the top talk radio guys and girls get this. Local and National. Rush, Sean, and Levin probably have 45 copies already. Hit the local guys so we have total coverage.
Have you hit Mark Davis out of Dallas yet? He’s a good one. I used to love his Sunday ABC syndicated show.
Drudge, too.
Saved...
The New Party was a third political party in the United States that tried to re-introduce the practice of electoral fusion as a political strategy for labor unions and community organizing groups. In electoral fusion, the same candidate receives nomination from more than one political party and occupies more than one ballot line. Fusion was once common in the United States but is now commonly practiced only in New York State, although it is allowed by law in seven other states. The party was active from 1992 to 1998. There had been an earlier New Party in 1968 that ran Eugene McCarthy for President.
The New Party was founded in the early 1990s by Daniel Cantor, a former staffer for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign, and by sociology and law professor Joel Rogers as an effort to break with the largely unsuccessful history of left-leaning third parties in the United States.
The party could best be described as social democratic in orientation, although party statements almost invariably used the terms “small-d democratic” or “progressive” instead. Its founders chose the name “New Party” in an effort to strike a fresh tone, free of associations with dogmas and ideological debates.
After a false start in New York, the New Party built modestly successful chapters in several states. Some of these chapters — such as those in Chicago and Little Rock — had their main bases of support in the low-income community organizing group ACORN, along with some support from various labor unions (especially ACORN-allied locals of the Service Employees International Union). Other chapters — such as those in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Missoula, Montana, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Dane County, Wisconsin, received institutional support from a variety of other labor unions and community organizations. These chapters built local political organizations that ran or endorsed candidates, primarily in local non-partisan races but with occasional forays into Democratic Party primaries or (more rarely) traditional third party-style independent candidacies as well. The party’s chapters elected or helped to elect dozens of candidates. Party chapters were also active between elections, pressuring elected officials to pass legislation on issues such as living wages and affordable housing.
Left-wing critics of the New Party, such as supporters of the Green Party, argued that the New Party was merely a pressure group on the fringes of the Democratic Party, rather than a genuinely new political party. New Party leaders argued that classic third-party strategies were doomed to failure, but that the Democratic Party was too entrenched and undemocratic to be a useful institution for “small-d democrats” either, even if they could succeed in taking it over, and so a new kind of organization was needed.
Although the party’s founders hoped to foster a shift toward electoral fusion, thereby making a multi-party electoral system possible in the United States, they were not successful in doing so. Their hopes rested largely on the U.S. Supreme Court case Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party. In 1997, the Court rejected the New Party’s argument that electoral fusion was a right protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of association clause. This 6-3 decision marked the first time that the Court enshrined the two-party system as a fundamental feature of the US electoral system.
After the Timmons case, the New Party quickly declined. Several chapters — initially, those chapters not connected with ACORN — disaffiliated. Perhaps the only and certainly the most successful surviving local chapter, known as Progressive Dane, remains active and relevant in Dane County, Wisconsin. Cantor and other key staff members left to found the Working Families Party of New York (1998), an organization which has had considerable success in building a New Party-style organization within New York state, and which is now exploring possibilities for expanding into other states.
As far as who gets credit, it doesn’t matter, really. :) The other thread has the initial blog-post and we’ve all been running with it since this morning.
I just want it to get it out there loud and clear.
If Hannity would run with this we would be home free.
For sure,only thing is any body with a huge audience will want as much sourcing as possible. Even then it’s tough as we get closer to the end to get this stuff out.
Does anyone know if McCain/Palin know about this? This could be his death knell if McCain can call him “a card carrying socialist” in the next debate.
Of the top three guys, Levin is most likely to run with it. Rush is the least. It only takes one for the story to start to grow some legs.
Sean may be pissed enough to go with the story after his run-in with Robert Gibbs last night.
I think by ‘credit’ he meant ‘attribution of original source’ and I was glad that he asked, because the source can sometimes tell us something about the quality of info and credibility etc. Also, I think a nod in the direction of those who invest time and effort that may just save us an onslaught of socialism is appropriate. I do look at the names of all who are pushing this stuff into the light, including yourself, with appreciation. It’s good to know this stuff, have our ducks in a row etc. IMHO.
Obama's flaws are so unbelievable that many people think we're making them up. Obama's campaign also does a decent job of deflecting truthful criticisms by using the MSM to attack the critics on different grounds, changing the focus from whatever flaw of his that happens to be the news of the moment.
make sure this link gets saved as well. It contains Obama’s DSA endorsement and shows that he was a panel member at a DSA forum on the economy. He later received praise for his socialist comments at this forum. I’ll post that link as well:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010906162143/www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
Quote about his socialist economics:
“When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.”
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html#anchor540108
“ Pelosi and Barack are our best campaigners in District 17,” Curnock said...
Avowed socialist. That is the phrase that pays.
Well the source happens to be the socialist party websites themselves. Here they are:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng47.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306031216/www.newparty.org/up9610.html
Amazing, this stuff should stick!
Ok, I see what you mean by credit. What’s good about this story is that all the sourcing is straight from the horse’s mouth...from the DSA and other progressive Chicago orgs web sites.
The American Thinker has already put a post together on it and we have the blog post from this morning as far as folks trying to tie it all together.
Thank you, GOPinCa
By the way, is that Canada or California? I am in California.
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