You Have 70 Days to Get Rid of the Cop Cabal in Leg Hall – What are you waiting for?
These candidates have been endorsed by the Working Families Party. Pick one and get going. We are 70 days from the primary
Becca Cotto running to send a sadly co-opted by the cops, Deb Heffernan into retirement.
Deshanna Neal running to further retire the retired cop Larry Mitchell.
Sophie Phillips because David Bentz retired.
Cyndie Romer taking the progressive torch from John Kowalko.
That’s a mighty foursome. If all four win, the Kop Kabal likely disappears.
Plus, there are more endorsements to come.
Don’t bitch, get involved. If you have some money, now’s the time to donate.
I love the WFPs track record on helping Dems like these take on the ossified establishment drones.
And win! Eric, Madinah, Larry, Rae, and Marie in 2020.
Yes. Love the spirit and the rubber meets road ethic they bring. Knock on every door. Talk to every potential voter. Bring new voters out on primary day.
My one small concern is that in the past they’ve been able to catch people sleepwalking.
They’ve ALREADY caught at least two incumbents sleepwalking.
And neither of said incumbents are capable of walking. At least not much.
They are basically absentee incumbents.
It may have been on this site or another but they had a table showing that if 55% turn out to vote the rebubs win. 60% and the dems hold a slight win and 65% the dems in a landslide. As always its just getting the votes out.
And it is always the Dem establishment candidates trying to drive down voter engagement.
Coincidence??
The progressive side needs to pick on candidate who can actually win instead of going into a primary with 5 separate people on the ticket.
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Example, please?
One great strategy that WFP and other progressive organizations have employed in Delaware is to actively seek out the votes of those who have not traditionally voted in primaries.
Their logic, which was borne out in 2020, was that, if primary voters are actually given a concrete choice, they’ll come out to vote.
Sure beats cutting out at least half of the potential primary electorate b/c they haven’t been motivated to choose between the lesser of two evils.
ES, with all due respect, I’d love to see some data that shows that that was actually accomplished.
I just did a check of places where there were WFP candidates that won in 2020 (26, 27) and people that voted in that primary but didn’t vote in the previous 2 primaries. The numbers were in-line (as a % of total residents) with RDs that didn’t have primaries during the 3 election cycles (24, 25).
My guess is that Dems were just flat-out more likely to vote in 2020. I would have to dig deeper in the data to get a better handle on it. I’m trying to find evidence of the impact, but perhaps they have given you some alternative data that supports it and would save me the time.
You could be right. However, when you look at the closeness of both Madinah’s and Marie’s primaries,expanding the base of voters strikes me as a good idea and, perhaps, the winning idea for each of them.
Plus, I think expanding the base of interested voters is always a good idea. Helps in November too. Plus, even if the number of new (but pre-existing) voters was relatively small, it can always be expanded. With the Kop Kabal apparently gunning for Madinah and Erik once again, an expanded base of primary voters will be especially helpful.
Yeah, I don’t disagree that it could make a difference in close races but there may be other factors in play.
I’m a little suspicious when a single cause explains large-scale changes.
Right. But in a close race, every little bit helps. Larry, Erik and Rae won by pretty large margins. Probably wouldn’t have made a difference.
But,if you have the grassroots resources, why not go for that winning edge? In terms of grassroots, the challengers have the advantage over the incumbents even if they are at a fundraising disadvantage.
As a volunteer, I came to realize that WFP, Network Delaware, and Delaware United are light years ahead of where we were when I worked in the General Assembly.
When I’m out there knocking doors for a candidate, I feel totally comfortable that the names and households I’m being fed have been effectively vetted by people who know what they’re doing.
It’s fun, it’s gratifying, and we’ve seen the results.
Competent list generation is really valuable. I remember volunteering 2 days before a hotly-contested primary maybe 10 years ago. I showed up to phonebank and got a list of people to call. They had been using the list for DAYS. I pointed out that the list hadn’t been filtered for Dems.
It’s unbelievable how many volunteer hours were squandered (and how many people had been annoyed) to be reminded to get out to vote for a candidate that they weren’t able to vote for…
The party training and tools have gotten better, and certainly the Dem-adjacent groups have brought some real data expertise that has made the process more rewarding all around.
I’ll never forget the worst list I was ever given. It was after the first time that John Atkins had been booted from the General Assembly back in 2007. There was a special election, the D was Lynn Bullock, who spent the campaign mostly hangin’ around the Dem HQ. The R was an architect name of Greg Hastings.
It was bad enough that I was sent out into a predominantly Black area of the district around Lincoln with a lit piece featuring Bullock and Richard Cordrey taken at the Fire Hall. In other words, a message guaranteed NOT to resonate with the targeted electorate.
Even worse was that, on the day of the Special Election, which was held on a Saturday, I go to the phone bank at Shirley Price’s real estate office and–I’m given a list of R’s who had not been vetted but who SOMEBODY thought might vote for Bullock. Ten calls in, it’s obvious to me that all I’m doing is driving out R votes for Hastings. Or Atkins.
Hastings wins–1770 to 1576. Atkins gets 584 write-in votes.
Hastings serves until 2008. Atkins’ Pete-endorsed candidacy wins the D primary over Barbara Lifflander by a 54-46 margin, and then the General over Hastings, 53-47.
Atkins’ pariah status lasts exactly from May, 2007 to November, 2008.
That’s absolutely the wrong approach. Multi-pronged attacks on multiple Delaware Way loyalists is the strategy to drive out the useless middle of the road, status-quo worshipers. You won’t live long enough to use some stupid piecemeal strategy.
Great guess, Dave! The old guessing game. Lol.
Keep guessing. Take all the time you need. Can you get me some of the Bob Byrd dough he’s funneling to Do Nothing Deb?
Remember folks there are people “in leadership” and there are leaders. Two distinct and separate concepts.
Sorry, do you not want to confirm the effectiveness of a strategy? I do.
Wouldn’t it be more of a revelation if, rather than net-new voters, it was actual honest-to-goodness progressive, left-wing voters that were thirsting for a candidate that shared their views?
Is that why? You’re trying to confirm the successful strategy? Lol.
They won all the primaries last time with great candidates. The last thing I want WFP doing is listening to your ideas!
Right… because I’m the enemy. Got it.
Well I would not say enemy necessarily. You’ll fall in line eventually. Even if you never figure out how we did it. Because it’ll already be done.
You could always show me a little more and I wouldn’t have to don’t this!
I don’t need to make my case to you. You could ask your candidates about me and my commitment to them.
Oh, Steve… your gift is on its way. Went to the Post Office yesterday
I got it today! Sent you a thank-you note. Can’t wait to read it.
Nice. Hopefully when Hal comes back to town he’ll do a public discussion. I’ll let you know.