Are you a member of Facebook? If not, c'mon get with the program! Facebook is the non-FOX owned Myspace minus the incredibly annoying graphics. And if so, you should join the Calitics group. That would make you super cool...or something.
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I want to give a big shout-out to the Calitics community and everybody who contributed to this tremendous coverage of this year's convention. Juls, Brian, blogswarm, hekebolos, Lucas, atdleft, Todd, jra, da, midvalley, and I hope I'm not missing anybody else did an unbelievable job. I've never seen a convention covered so thoroughly by a state blog since... the invention of state blogs. We ran circles around traditional media at this event. So we all should be very proud of ourselves.
Now we need to expand that role. Obviously getting information out about the convention is vital, and I've had plenty of people say they were looking to Calitics for the latest news and perspective. But if we want to help be a lever for change, we need to also understand that there are things we can do as activists on the floor that can help bring that change about. That means connecting with the grassroots progressives, preparing and planning for contingencies, and most important electing more officers and candidates and delegates who want to join us in this program for party reform and growth.
And let's take up the gracious offer by Garry Shay to offer input into how the resolutions proecdure can be reviewed. And by all means let's those of us who are elected delegates try to get on standing committees. Our ball has just inched off the top of the hill. Let's keep it rolling downward.
Interesting that the tradtional media only seems to pay attention to "events" when they are officially sanctioned and have the "right people". It reminds me of the rock world, where a band can be instantly famous if they have the right "members of..." in the group, whether the music is any good or not. Check out this article in the Sacramento Bee over a political website created by insiders that is launching on tuesday:
Thirty Democratic operatives -- pollsters, consultants and spokespeople -- will launch the "California Majority Report" at midnight Tuesday at www.camajorityreport.com. The big launch party is Tuesday night at Mason's in downtown Sacramento, complete with a "special guest," former Gov. Gray Davis.
Oh wow! Gray Davis... (*yawn*), how exciting. Heh, I guess it's good that he's keeping busy, anyway, the site CA Majority Report is billed as an alternative to the right wing Flash Report. Which is fine, I mean i'm all for more voices being added to the discussion, but it is interesting that the story acts like it's coming out of a vaccuum and totally ignores the previously existing California blogosphere.
