Tim, don't wait for the party to do something. This is on each one of us. Join other groups like League of Women Voters, Blue Horizon, etc. Travis County is the same way. Idk why, but I do know we need to kick it up if we are going to change anything in Texas. I'm reading Saving Democracy by David Pepper and I get his substack newsletters. Lots of ideas of what each of us can do.
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.I have seen Pepper on TV......
they were giving me the same rap in 98 when the hired me to run the party in spite of the chair....they wanted to call is the Hays County Dem Club. unh?? ...I was new to politics. and told them it made no sense, brand wise, so I said "no can do". ...Simply stated the voters understand the 'Dem party' as an entity , affiliated with other Dem parties........and candidates will only run if affliated and hoepfully with support of the Dem Party.
what we need to do it get TCDP engaged in politics instead of what they are currently do (mystery to me) . i have advertised around for folks to run for Chair.
Like i saId, don't hire an attorneyr to run a sales and marketing campaign.
The TCDP home page has real promise...if you squint right you can see there is a deadline for filing for the primaries... click on it and its a sales pitch to attend some dog and pony show....with no mention of the filing date....0
Try it for yourself , let me know if you can find out the filing deadline for the Primary
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BTW i offered to fund tables at La Gran Plaza, and Ridgmar.....offering HC enrollment advice during HC enrollment period...Aetna is in every Walmart floggin Medicare Advantage. Tons of Tarrant citizens have no idea what they are eligible for.
I say this for emphasis....I OFFERED this to GAYDEN....she told me to contact her 'Volunteer Coordinators' and NEVER EVER email her at the law frim again.
still waiting to hear back from the volunteer coordinators.
susan i did want to answer ur comments directly....of course what you say is spot on buttt........
every other large county in Texas is blue.....and have county wide leadership so they can marshall poltical and electoral resources. importanly they can command media coverage.
only Tarrant has not one County wide office holder except the Chair. TCDP can and should do that job. If the Chair or EC won't do it give the mike to a Constable or JP.
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heh LSL.....one of my major greivances with Tarrant Dems is their communication sink hole
I get emails once or twice a week for Tarrant R's...straightforward, informative
Tarrant D's ....They don't email , period. . They post nothing useful for voters on the website. I think they are are on Facebook. if so I never hear from them . Do they block their critics? instagram, tik tok...forget about it,
I get emails from them, but I'm a precinct chair. But this is something that should be brought up. They are on Facebook, they have a page. The chair has been making weekly videos every monday.
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The Amendments were incredibily hard to understand.......our own Tarrant County Democratic Party couldn't bother to alert us to the vote nor explain or offer reco's reflecting Dem values.
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What is the point , or utlitlity of a Tarrant Dem Party? An Arlington SR candidate told me she didn't even think about the party when deciding to run....and Crystal was standing 4' away when she said that.........probably smart on this candidates part ...but here is the thing
in every School Board meeting, city councl meeting, sports event, most churchs, lots of affluent PTA's, bible studies, local Chambers of Commerice, Kiawans, Boy Scout , Country Clubs, koffe klatchs, most bars, believe or not most unions halls, hell even my local Tom Thumb ....there are MAGAits or R's or Gun nuts meeting, talking, discussing, openly, loudly, sometiime vulgarily......step into one of these events and mention Joe Biden and they will stone you.
Tarrant Dems are in diaspora...unless perhaps if you live in Como or Stop 6. I don't know one place where i could go and dependably run into a fellow dem and talk openly....and my n/h went Beto/Biden/Beto. My neigbors who voted Dem don't want to be heard talking up D's...unless they are in a protected job ...like a TCU prof or maybe civil servant.
The only place that i know of where I should and could dependably kibbitz with fellow D's is in and around or at TCDP....at that they have failed...not just Crystal currently....but going back years...........we will see if at least they put up candidates. Till now at that they have failed. And they have brillant excuses BTW.
If your a TCDP EC and think ur job is collecting money to collect more money, quit and go help the grand kids with thier homework.
someone organzied a meetup at a Mansfield upscale bar....It was referenced on TCDP website.. That's how i heard about it...........TAKE NOTE TCDP THIS IS ABSOLUTEY BRILLIANT MARKETING....but then total silence ...not a peep if 2 or 10 or 10,000 showed up.....the Bulletin,,,,RIP,DOA, toes up? anyone know? Is the only other event for Dems who are not on the EC the Primary election in March , at your polling station?
I read about orgs doing thing....here on LSL or other places....i can't join every org....especially if they are statewide or national.....TCDP could host one or two of them.....
Alison had Iris and Iris would return an email. What gives now? Crystal complained harshly that emailed her office yet half of dozen emails to TCDP have gone unanswered. Has voter interaction gotten worse with Gayden or is there some secret i have not been let in on? Enquiring minds want to know.
I don't know the answer to any of those questions. I have been disappointed with the TCDP for many years, through several leaders. I'm holding out until December 11 for any harsh criticism. Everyone deserves a chance, but if we get to the filing deadline and still have unopposed races, I am going to be pissed, and I'll make sure they know it.
let me offer these comments............i mentioned before i haven't herad from my pct. chair ever..10 years now .......and evidently u all use email amongst yourselves. does that mean my pct chair has my email and won't email me? Or is she too lazy to communicate with her constituents?.....I don't know.....How would i know.
I have signed up on the webiste two dozen times. I was actullay getting the Bulletin till Gayden took over...Has that been shuttered or am i being blocked? I dunno but there is an answer.
It seesm TCDP is absolutely intent on never reaching any Democrat who is not in the inner circle.......
I live in a pretty affluent zip and there is no signs of any democratic activity what so ever...even as it was blanketed by Beto signs
its absurd....TCDP couldn't be more invisible if you had use invisible paint. I suspect its a reflection of the fact the last 2 Chairs were selected...they put tthemselves forward and you all were too lazy or indifferent to vet them...but ast Harris Pct Chairs have demonstrated , you all can be consequentilal
if you ever want to know why Texas became Republican , one simple answer is: lawyers...
in the 80's and 90;s lawyer were making huge money on worker's comp claims and triple damage liability awards.............it got to where a biz couldn't buy WC or Liability Insurance....I know ,I was one......
thing is Dems protected this grift.....and lawyers basically infiltrated the Dem Party to protect their racket.
Tex biz's revolted and have assocaite the Dem Party with the shysters ever since....
I was ED for Hays Dems in/around 2000... the Chair was Chas Soeching .....he was a partner or stringer for O'Quin and Lamianck, the $2 billion tobbaco settlement lawyers......O'quinn bought a big ranch along the Blanco River in Hays County. Hays Dems selected Soechting thinking he would bring
Quinn money..
Soecthing brought NO O'Quinn money to Hays Dems and contributed only $1000 of his own , As a chair he was AWOL....deletoriously so,.......Soecting went on to become State Chair, based on the same principle, money imagined but never deliverd.
Tim, don't wait for the party to do something. This is on each one of us. Join other groups like League of Women Voters, Blue Horizon, etc. Travis County is the same way. Idk why, but I do know we need to kick it up if we are going to change anything in Texas. I'm reading Saving Democracy by David Pepper and I get his substack newsletters. Lots of ideas of what each of us can do.
.I have seen Pepper on TV......
they were giving me the same rap in 98 when the hired me to run the party in spite of the chair....they wanted to call is the Hays County Dem Club. unh?? ...I was new to politics. and told them it made no sense, brand wise, so I said "no can do". ...Simply stated the voters understand the 'Dem party' as an entity , affiliated with other Dem parties........and candidates will only run if affliated and hoepfully with support of the Dem Party.
what we need to do it get TCDP engaged in politics instead of what they are currently do (mystery to me) . i have advertised around for folks to run for Chair.
Like i saId, don't hire an attorneyr to run a sales and marketing campaign.
The TCDP home page has real promise...if you squint right you can see there is a deadline for filing for the primaries... click on it and its a sales pitch to attend some dog and pony show....with no mention of the filing date....0
Try it for yourself , let me know if you can find out the filing deadline for the Primary
from TCRP website...
"The Most Conservative Urban County in America"
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comparing the TCGOP website to ours is a humbling experience.
BTW i offered to fund tables at La Gran Plaza, and Ridgmar.....offering HC enrollment advice during HC enrollment period...Aetna is in every Walmart floggin Medicare Advantage. Tons of Tarrant citizens have no idea what they are eligible for.
I say this for emphasis....I OFFERED this to GAYDEN....she told me to contact her 'Volunteer Coordinators' and NEVER EVER email her at the law frim again.
still waiting to hear back from the volunteer coordinators.
Wow, makes me so mad. It's like they are Republicans in Democrat clothing.
they’re not DINO’s (save for their way of thinking).
they just don’t care.
susan i did want to answer ur comments directly....of course what you say is spot on buttt........
every other large county in Texas is blue.....and have county wide leadership so they can marshall poltical and electoral resources. importanly they can command media coverage.
only Tarrant has not one County wide office holder except the Chair. TCDP can and should do that job. If the Chair or EC won't do it give the mike to a Constable or JP.
heh LSL.....one of my major greivances with Tarrant Dems is their communication sink hole
I get emails once or twice a week for Tarrant R's...straightforward, informative
Tarrant D's ....They don't email , period. . They post nothing useful for voters on the website. I think they are are on Facebook. if so I never hear from them . Do they block their critics? instagram, tik tok...forget about it,
what do other counties do?
I get emails from them, but I'm a precinct chair. But this is something that should be brought up. They are on Facebook, they have a page. The chair has been making weekly videos every monday.
Brought up to whom?
i will post here the questions I pose to TCDP EC and Chair.
1. who has signed up for the primary and what offices
2. how much money in the bank or in the pipleine
3.how many people are on FB or other SM sites
4. why are Racheld on Allions sitll on the website
5, is the Bulletin alive or dead...if dead by what means do you talk to voters
addendum: what would it take to get my pct. chair to talk to me? do i need to send her a bundt cake or go lay in her driveway?
have u ever watched a vid? how would a tarrant dem in dimond hill know about it and how does it relate to them? i am thinking vanity project.
I got a blast email from Tarrant R's about the City Council race and nothing from TCDP. i got nothing from TCDP about yesterday's election.......
a blast email...takes seconds to compose *and execute......
The Amendments were incredibily hard to understand.......our own Tarrant County Democratic Party couldn't bother to alert us to the vote nor explain or offer reco's reflecting Dem values.
the TCDP is, in a word, worthless.
and it seems no one wants to fix it...
they all want to be EC's , content to lose big time,0.
what a weird ambition
What is the point , or utlitlity of a Tarrant Dem Party? An Arlington SR candidate told me she didn't even think about the party when deciding to run....and Crystal was standing 4' away when she said that.........probably smart on this candidates part ...but here is the thing
in every School Board meeting, city councl meeting, sports event, most churchs, lots of affluent PTA's, bible studies, local Chambers of Commerice, Kiawans, Boy Scout , Country Clubs, koffe klatchs, most bars, believe or not most unions halls, hell even my local Tom Thumb ....there are MAGAits or R's or Gun nuts meeting, talking, discussing, openly, loudly, sometiime vulgarily......step into one of these events and mention Joe Biden and they will stone you.
Tarrant Dems are in diaspora...unless perhaps if you live in Como or Stop 6. I don't know one place where i could go and dependably run into a fellow dem and talk openly....and my n/h went Beto/Biden/Beto. My neigbors who voted Dem don't want to be heard talking up D's...unless they are in a protected job ...like a TCU prof or maybe civil servant.
The only place that i know of where I should and could dependably kibbitz with fellow D's is in and around or at TCDP....at that they have failed...not just Crystal currently....but going back years...........we will see if at least they put up candidates. Till now at that they have failed. And they have brillant excuses BTW.
If your a TCDP EC and think ur job is collecting money to collect more money, quit and go help the grand kids with thier homework.
someone organzied a meetup at a Mansfield upscale bar....It was referenced on TCDP website.. That's how i heard about it...........TAKE NOTE TCDP THIS IS ABSOLUTEY BRILLIANT MARKETING....but then total silence ...not a peep if 2 or 10 or 10,000 showed up.....the Bulletin,,,,RIP,DOA, toes up? anyone know? Is the only other event for Dems who are not on the EC the Primary election in March , at your polling station?
I read about orgs doing thing....here on LSL or other places....i can't join every org....especially if they are statewide or national.....TCDP could host one or two of them.....
Alison had Iris and Iris would return an email. What gives now? Crystal complained harshly that emailed her office yet half of dozen emails to TCDP have gone unanswered. Has voter interaction gotten worse with Gayden or is there some secret i have not been let in on? Enquiring minds want to know.
I don't know the answer to any of those questions. I have been disappointed with the TCDP for many years, through several leaders. I'm holding out until December 11 for any harsh criticism. Everyone deserves a chance, but if we get to the filing deadline and still have unopposed races, I am going to be pissed, and I'll make sure they know it.
let me offer these comments............i mentioned before i haven't herad from my pct. chair ever..10 years now .......and evidently u all use email amongst yourselves. does that mean my pct chair has my email and won't email me? Or is she too lazy to communicate with her constituents?.....I don't know.....How would i know.
I have signed up on the webiste two dozen times. I was actullay getting the Bulletin till Gayden took over...Has that been shuttered or am i being blocked? I dunno but there is an answer.
It seesm TCDP is absolutely intent on never reaching any Democrat who is not in the inner circle.......
I live in a pretty affluent zip and there is no signs of any democratic activity what so ever...even as it was blanketed by Beto signs
its absurd....TCDP couldn't be more invisible if you had use invisible paint. I suspect its a reflection of the fact the last 2 Chairs were selected...they put tthemselves forward and you all were too lazy or indifferent to vet them...but ast Harris Pct Chairs have demonstrated , you all can be consequentilal
if you ever want to know why Texas became Republican , one simple answer is: lawyers...
in the 80's and 90;s lawyer were making huge money on worker's comp claims and triple damage liability awards.............it got to where a biz couldn't buy WC or Liability Insurance....I know ,I was one......
thing is Dems protected this grift.....and lawyers basically infiltrated the Dem Party to protect their racket.
Tex biz's revolted and have assocaite the Dem Party with the shysters ever since....
I was ED for Hays Dems in/around 2000... the Chair was Chas Soeching .....he was a partner or stringer for O'Quin and Lamianck, the $2 billion tobbaco settlement lawyers......O'quinn bought a big ranch along the Blanco River in Hays County. Hays Dems selected Soechting thinking he would bring
Quinn money..
Soecthing brought NO O'Quinn money to Hays Dems and contributed only $1000 of his own , As a chair he was AWOL....deletoriously so,.......Soecting went on to become State Chair, based on the same principle, money imagined but never deliverd.
Parrells to TCDP Chair?
not debating your assesment..prob is its the only vehicle to counter MAGA