Edit:I moved the thread, please ignore

[eyeontheprize]

Absent takeover.

There is no hope to challenge the leadership before the General election, so everything needs to be done outside the Party.

Here is the situation. The Chair of the Party here in a small southern county, loves the attention he is getting from the state and the Presidential candidates. But he is just too "busy" to organize the drudgery of voter registration and GOTV. But he doesn't want anything to happen which he doesn't control, period. The consequence has been that he hordes information and data that would help those of us who are looking forward to November and making a change. He does nothing organizationally,nothing at all.So in reality he is causing harm.

He was an unknown when he took the Chairman's job last year, but seemed charismatic,energetic and competent plus he was the only one running, so he got the job.

There is a powerful undercurrent of people here who want to get to work, not just listen to his views of why Democrats are best at the monthly meetings.

The State loves him because he has taken credit for everything a core of activists has done (web page, organize lists, plan events etc.). The real actors locally are unknown to the State, and our leader certainly isn't going to give them credit. In fact, trying to get things done around the Chairman has truly backfired since it has given some regard.

I can't go through the next year with and not be active. My SO thinks we should go to the State Party, an act which I thind could blow everything up, without a benefit. What should we do?

[markus]

1. When is the organizational meeting

All of the party bodies should be reorganizing this Winter and Spring as we assemble at our various levels to elect our delegates for Boston.

Does your state organize at the legislative district? If so, who is that chair? Who are the precint leaders or captains. There is probably nothing that the country chair can do (except withold funds under his control) to block activities these other actors do.

Or say "the hell with him". Are you pledged to a candidate yet? Can you get resources from them?

Actually, it doesn't cost that much to set up a voter registration table. It costs nothing except your time to go door to door with voter registration materials, which you can likely get for free from your county, and possibly download and reproduce yourself.

If there is a core of people doing all the work, then there is a core of people prepared to depose him, at the end of the day.