tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post4078365448073561726..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: ProgressingPDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-21681830747292047852010-11-21T23:21:56.686-06:002010-11-21T23:21:56.686-06:00A friend forwarded this post to me. I found it to ...A friend forwarded this post to me. I found it to be a compelling read. <br /><br />I reside and am active in Dallas County, so many of the details do not pertain to our situation. However, the overarching observations do, and some of the specific recommendations echo similarly what some of us have been talking about since shortly after the 2008 elections. <br /><br />With the now-more-likely dissolution of the Texas Trust, and the donor caste in a state of profound existential reflection, it's time to consider some structural changes to how the Democratic Party operates. Dallas County has been experimenting with its playbook with this general election. The work and the experimenting is not over, though.<br /><br />It may not necessarily mean wholesale leadership changes, but it just might - and you're not the only one that finds the current county/state chair election timeline hostile to dynamic responses to an often dynamic political environment. It's a hell of a thing to ask people to run for or consider new leadership options when the chair election date is already after when we should have begun our general election gameplan. It favors more than a little a "stay the course" choice, barring the disclosure of financial or moral impropriety.<br /><br />Thanks for adding to the conversation that should be going on right now, and for adding to it in a mature fashion. It's not all gloomy news out there for Texas Democrats. It doesn't make me happy, though, that a fair number of folks seem content to wait for demographic trends to do all the heavy lifting towards building a better society.Tracy Clintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730257885337232408noreply@blogger.com