If I were Howard Dean for a Day (or 5 steps to save the Democrats)
7:00-8:00 Breakfast Meeting with the full DNC. Announce the "Business Management Initiative" to staff each state's party office with Executive Directors who have real business management experience. This will build into assigning 100 key field offices in 2008 with solid managers. The organizational culture of the Democratic Party will change to be more businesslike, not a Kumbayah management style. This will cost $5 Million or $100,000 per state.
8:30-9:30 Meet with select volunteer coordinators, and experienced organizers to plan a 3 hour grassroots training workshop that will be given several times a year in every state. This is to share campaign skills with everyone.
10:00-3:00 Hold a National Conference Call on Messaging. Invite Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Tony Coelho, Mario Cuomo, Jennifer Granholm, Janet Napolitano, John Edwards, Brian Sweitzer, and James Carville. Hit National Security, Economics, and Social Policy. Then get specific with Judges, Iraq, Terrorism, Education, Healthcare, Guns, Religion, and Taxes. Take good notes and then write a final script for all Democrats; Presidential candidates to Dog Catcher candidates: This is what to say, and this is how to say it.
3:30-3:45 Have a short, to the point conference call with all 50 state chairs. Demand, in 60 days, a plan from each of them on designing precinct captain programs everywhere. There will be an allotment of $10,000 per Congressional District.
4:30 Board a plane for Alabama.
7:00 Alabama Party Dinner. Follow Willie Brown's advice. A $5 Million effort to register every African and Hispanic American in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana...And turn them out on election day. Not only would all of those states go Blue for the Electoral College, but among the three states, a black Democratic Senator could emerge.
8:30 Black church. Speak to the members about the lessons of Katrina that government is to serve the public interest, not special interests. From the Jim Crow era, that courts are there for all to get access to justice. The lesson of Iraq, that America is stronger working with the world, not against it.
10:00 Go to bed knowing you just put the party back on track to regain majority status.
8:30-9:30 Meet with select volunteer coordinators, and experienced organizers to plan a 3 hour grassroots training workshop that will be given several times a year in every state. This is to share campaign skills with everyone.
10:00-3:00 Hold a National Conference Call on Messaging. Invite Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Tony Coelho, Mario Cuomo, Jennifer Granholm, Janet Napolitano, John Edwards, Brian Sweitzer, and James Carville. Hit National Security, Economics, and Social Policy. Then get specific with Judges, Iraq, Terrorism, Education, Healthcare, Guns, Religion, and Taxes. Take good notes and then write a final script for all Democrats; Presidential candidates to Dog Catcher candidates: This is what to say, and this is how to say it.
3:30-3:45 Have a short, to the point conference call with all 50 state chairs. Demand, in 60 days, a plan from each of them on designing precinct captain programs everywhere. There will be an allotment of $10,000 per Congressional District.
4:30 Board a plane for Alabama.
7:00 Alabama Party Dinner. Follow Willie Brown's advice. A $5 Million effort to register every African and Hispanic American in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana...And turn them out on election day. Not only would all of those states go Blue for the Electoral College, but among the three states, a black Democratic Senator could emerge.
8:30 Black church. Speak to the members about the lessons of Katrina that government is to serve the public interest, not special interests. From the Jim Crow era, that courts are there for all to get access to justice. The lesson of Iraq, that America is stronger working with the world, not against it.
10:00 Go to bed knowing you just put the party back on track to regain majority status.
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