I got a call from a Move On volunteer

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Sunday October 07, 2012 · 3:50 PM PDT

2012/10/07 · 15:50

I had read about the collaboration of AFL CIO and Move On in making GOTV (Get Out the Vote) efforts and rejoiced in the news. Today I got a volunteer recruitment call to make calls at weekend phone banks. I am already actively organizing in our county where we have daily phone banks (sometimes two a day) so I could not jump into that effort.

I asked where the caller was from and we exchanged a few pleasantries. He volunteered that already more than 100 thousand phone calls have been made. I thanked him profusely and he said that he liked just talking to someone who cared in the way he did, another Democrat, for we found we were both in deeply red counties.

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Sunday July 31, 2011 · 8:21 PM PDT

2011/07/31 · 20:21

In the spirit of "Remember the Alamo" I propose something I haven't heard anyone else say yet around here. I propose we hang this hostage crisis around the necks of those who perpetrated it, and when the going gets rough when we are out going door to door or making phone calls that we just repeat "Remember the Debt Crisis".

These hostage takers do not deserve another term. Together we can make their political lives miserable for this. What do you say? Instead of turning on our own hostage negotiators what if we resolved to never stop until this crew of crazy and ruthless GOP legislators that were a part of this are out of office and disgraced for their part in it.

I can't wait to do my part with my freshman Tea Party Know Nothing. How can we coordinate this? How can we politically make these people pay for the misery they had no problem threatening for all of us.

What if we made the Dkos command central and helped with ideas and strategies across the country.

This isn't the fault of those who were faced with taking the gun out of the hands of the perpetrators.

Simplicity is dyeing Easter eggs with cabbage

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Saturday April 23, 2011 · 10:35 AM PDT

2011/04/23 · 10:35

Some of us know we are shy by nature and some of us who are shy have read up on the subject. That's another thing that can be in one's nature, to read up on things.

Somewhere in one of the many writings I have perused, it said that shy people are not very successful in high conflict environments. However, the same source claimed that in interpersonally peaceful and sustaining situations, shy people excel even beyond the accomplishments of their highly aggressive peers. (Take that Donald.)

Maybe that's why the idea of simplicity has always been very inviting to me.

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