[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] Dem. primary, US House

[Ricky Baldwin]

Interesting points, both.

Thanks to David for making it possible to learn about these two points, and for running.  Many of us don't think too highly of electoral politics, but that is largely a reflection of the horrendous and disgusting uses to which it has been put and its susceptibility to manipulation from the powerful.  David's campaign represented among other things a rebellion against both those evils and an example of the good uses to which electoral politics can be put, how it can be used to resist manipulation by the powerful, even if every effort is not successful - in the short run.  All of us continue to speak up and demonstrate and organize even though we are usually not successful in the short run.  But we do it because it is the only way we know to keep the possibility open that we may be more successful in the long run.  Electoral politics may be a sham, a fraud, and a ghost of what it is cracked up to be, but it is part of the reality we live in as surely as the system of selling our labor power for money so we can buy the means to live.  And it's hard for one of us to run.  It can be exhausting emotionally and physically, but most if not all of what David had to say would have never made it into the race without his efforts.  And in the long run he has made it that much more possible to win something(s) that will matter profoundly to all of us.

Ricky

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Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] Dem. primary, US House

Note too that David had 11% of the vote in C-U - but 14% in the district as a whole.

That suggests that the issues on which he differed with the standard Democratic party positions presented by Callis and Gollin - notably military and economic policy - have at least as much appeal beyond 'liberal' C-U.

I think we may see anti-war/anti-Wall St. candidates emerging in some surprising places in the coming year.

--CGE

On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com<mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com>> wrote:

Note that David Green won overwhelmingly in votes per dollar spent campaigning.

U.S. 13TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (D)
100% OF PRECINCTS REPORTING

        Ann Callis      17,176  55%

        George Gollin   9,865   31%

        David Green     4,429   14%