This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to clarify that when I complained about the lack of protests by Progressives, I didn't intend to snipe at people in this forum in particular. Rather, it was the observation that the Left in America seems to be sitting on their hands, or engaging in ineffective efforts that aren't changing anything. TYT has organized small protests at the doors of CNN, so that's already more than the average progressive organisation has done.
Running for office on an independant platform is a great thing you can do. I hope you'll be successful, Tim, and that you'll expand on your campaign even if you don't win the seat. There should be a lot of potential in pointing out the flaws of the big two parties, and maybe you could even snag some lines off of Cenk's daily rants on what's wrong in politics. I'd write more, but because I broke my right hand it's getting a little difficult. Anyway, all the best! I bet some TYT'ers will support you if needs be.
I didn't go at the members of this forum explicitly, because they are somehow worse, but because they are the people who might read my posts and I think it is better to attack the people who are listening than bitching about an anonymous mass. And most of the people on this forum are quite passive. When I wrote my first blogs about health care protests in August most of the responses were: "Meh, it's too late anyway."
Maybe we could use this blog to brainstorm about ideas to help Tim. Trying to get TYT to report would be a good thing (for Tim and TYT). We could create a list of people who are willing to help. Maybe some people from his state are listening to TYT and want to help. Any other ideas.
"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."
Thanks for the consideration. :-)
The big thing I need at the moment are petition sigs. We havent started "actively" collecting them yet (though ive got about a dozen from people I know in my district) but the plan is to chart up some routes to go door-to-door and do some canvassing.
I'll be setup to take donations by next week, but I have to be carefull not to raise more then $500 in total or else I have to do all kinds of detailed campaign finance reporting, and that's massive overkill for a state rep campaign. Though publiclty/support that is non-monetary is more then welcome!! as an aside, I got my TYT sweatshirt in the mail yesterday, I'll have to get a pic wearing it up on my site once the next update is ready :-)
I've finally got setup for fund raising! I'll have a new "blog post" on here discussing it in a few moments. :-)
