Hooray for Party reforms and the DNC chair, other issues

Hooray!  very glad to see the d16-2 blog in action!   Come, let us reason together - or at least share!

Imagine Joy suggests a conversation about super-delegates as a step in reforming our house.

Of more immediate concern to me is the election of the Democratic National Chairperson around February 23, and getting our views informed and preferences rank-ordered so we can be the change we want.

I would dearly love to gain input on rank-ordering d16-2 membership preferences for DNC-chair so we can build that out within our Congressional delegation, our DNC Committee persons, and our state and county party organs.  Maybe that is a separate reposting of candidates' names and the four websites for candidates?    I myself am undecided, largely among Ray Buckley, Keith Ellison, and Perez, but we should dialogue!

Several Basic ideas for reforming our party:
--  Overall focus:  We cannot reclaim legislative or executive branches without a fifty-state strategy and engaging in every state.
--  Money:  Fund-raising cannot be the focus of every questionnaire or action from a Democratic candidate.   Bernie is right and Barack is right:  it's grass roots and broad participation that change things.  Money raised should be money equally spent on building the party steadily for at least a decade so we re-identify as a national and local party, rural and urban, young and old.
--  Accountability:  we need intra party transparency on where the money goes and how it is divvied up.
--  Campaign finance reform has been killed repeatedly by GOP.  We need leadership that pledges to fight for that until the battle is won, otherwise the Sheldon Adelson and Kochs and other billionaires will continue to buy the Congress and state houses they want.
--  Refreshing the leadership so we have bridges and backbencher at every level.  Lots of issues here, but those who get involved end up as officers and they end up as delegates, etc., which is a selection via who-can-and-will volunteer as much as by elections.

I'll stop, but yes, read Jane Mayer's Dark Money, listen to Hidden Brain blog's The Deep Story this week, but most of all, we need to think for ourselves and share.

And thanks John and anyone else instrumental in birthing the blog.