My family owned a major union contractor in the metroplex......texas passed "right to work" and that was a death sentence for union contractors....our journeymen made $25./hour + benefits in 1982. went non-union to stay cmpetitive and those same skills get $25/hour plus benefits 40 years later.
Cart before the horse....what we need in Tarrant County is for voters to know we exist to solve their problems............currently we are invisible to most....so why would they vote or voter for us? ....dozens of cheap ways to achieve that.......the rest will follow.......VOTER OUTREACH VOTER OUTREACH VOTER OUTREACH....on issues they care about,,,,,offer solutions to their problems....flyers in bars/restaurant alerting servers how they quality for Obamacare , with subsidies......tables at Seminary South or other malls talking about Chips, or O'care or Child Tax Credits......informing them of their options.......get in front of Neighborhood Associaitons and talk about the Texas RETURN TO HOME RULE...that will rouse the the proeprty ritghts folks........how bout a Letter the all the Editors often , on every issue of significance....... or get on the local poltical TV news shows.........respond to every R outrage with a EMAIL at any email address u can buy , steal or borrow,,,,,call it OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK.....(limit one per week). Post here at LSLN or other Texas newsletters........... You can actually post comments at the end of every Startle Gram editorial. It would take 1 minute to respond to the 4 Horeses Asses of the Apocolyse which is the Startel Gram editoral stable.........I get the feeling nobody at HQ reads anything......
advise us when events are about to happen, not after. revamp Bulletion to be USEFUL.
organize some protests.....pick your issue...."sponsored by TCDP"....loud and proud
get some Pct Chairs to hold some meetups for their entire neighborhood......some food, some music......lively like
I fianlly located TCU Dem Club..be0cause they are top secret tro anyone who doesn't know how to find them. As the author says , nothing at UTA or Tarleton, or TCC. Persons in the know say that A$M Law Shcholl leans left.
set up a sign across from Roots Mkt.....let them know this will not be tolerated.
revise website to something along Hays Dems site lines...where the home pages accentuates to anyone what the Party can do for voters not what voters should do for the Party.
You have a lot of really good ideas. We need to do all of those things and we need the people there to do them. I'm planning on talking to the candidates who are running for Chair, I'm going to share some of your thoughts.
did i mention FREE FREE FREE or nearly so? we got to get voters engaged and involved in rescuing theirselves from the barbarians who would turn Texas into a fascist autocracy. Calling what they are doing anything else is weak weak weak.........which 900000000 we are currently known for, by our own voters.
Ps...since your from here...
note how many Trump signs vs our guys. My neighbor said he was afraid if he put up a Biden sign his boss would disapprove. Multiply that by most every church or organzation or most business's . We have been silenced because we let em shut us up.
I know these guys, in business, friends, social clubs, cigars lounges, they all went gaga for Trump....i had a 118 year old union business......i couldn't go to a trade association meeting cause it was all Trump.......
ps: i walked with IBEW for Beto in 2018. never heard anything about them in 2020 or 2022.
i see Reed O'connor at it again. I emailed everyone with an email address in Tarrant and part of Dallas Counties to organize a protest about his 1st Obamacare ruling......i got one response from a pct. capt wondering if i was spam............Joel Fryer said he actually organized a protest...i never heard about it.....he also says he knows nada about TCDP FB???? i only heard a few times from TCDP on Alison's personal Chair FB. i assume we don't own the other URLS like TCDP.com......i will repeat us seniors don't do SM and if we do its FB.....that is alot of people left out of the loop because TCDP wouldn't buy an email list and use it. Ask what the Bulletin subscription number is?
i know i sound like a broken record but i got this from Travis dems....1) i never google Travis Dem but they have my email
2) they have unions involved...TCDP says not one word nor has organized one thing with any union that i am aware of
"Join the Travis County Democratic Party, along with State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, Judge Denise Hernández, Pflugerville City Council Member Rudy Metayer, and ACC Trustee Stephanie Gharakhanian, at 6 PM on June 20, at UA Local 286 Plumbers & Pipefitters Hall in Austin to hear what it’s like to run for office and learn how to get started!"
here is what every pct capt should do; communicate this to your neighbors.........spent $15 and stick on it on every neighbor's door.
Dems are working for you; Saving you Medicare Pharma $$$ Big Time. R's want to cut SS and Medicare.....
Joe Biden and the Dems, working for you: help is on the way .But many people living with cancer in the U.S. will soon see long-overdue relief thanks to provisions of the INFLATION RECOVER ACT
see...problem/solution..rinse/repeat on a host of issues of which we MUST inform voters WE ARE WORKING FOR U
an editorial by a "maga Medical Consultant" with not one word of pushback or protest from any Tarrant Dems....maybe Startlegram editoral editor doesn't know who to call
TCU and Disciples of Christ get a shout out as part of the anti-Christian Nationalist movement , including Churches in Arlington and Kennedale
As i always said , tongue in cheek, lets put the C back in TCU. As a lapsed Episcoplian i was always bemused by the antics of the televanglist and religious hustlers of yore. Rev Jilton Tilton comes to mind with the grain silo signage in Carrolton....Admittedly they do have the best music. But now these crass Machivellians have figured out ways to accumulate threatening levels of money and power simply for the sake of having more money and power. Ken Copeland has a huge compound and a fleet of aircraft and a secruity force like a Christian Right Vatican up on Eagle Mountain lake.
Back to praise for TCU: TCU, DoC, Brite Divinity
"In one of the boldest declarations yet by a mainline Protestant church, the Indiana-based Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) passed a resolution opposing “Christian nationalism” and prophecy preachings that Christians must take over and “occupy” all government, maybe to trigger the coming of a messiah."
lest anyone think its only the CR who want a theocracy...don't forget many Catholic Bishops have no use for the constitution ..here is one o four own home grown Tyler Bishop hater ....so much for peace and love.
look Ma, no hands ......a politcal party (ours) with a booth at a mall...one guess which state. No not Tejas.
"I went to a central Minnesota weekend town fair a few weeks ago, and while my amazing Significant Other was shopping in a clothes booth, I decided to sidle over and watch and listen to the goings-on
in the next booth, sponsored and staffed by the Minnesota GOP"
organize Tables of HC care info providers....someone from TD plus other orgs....man those tables....and inform the uniformed voters of their HC options. Of particular interest is the expansion of Medicaid for infants and moms to 1 year. Also most seniors don't know the difference between tradiaitonal Medicare and Medicare advantage....u know there is a diff cause insuror advertise the hell out of medicare advantage.....and finally a bunch of people have no idea they qualify for huge subsidies for O'care policies....
make the visitor understand the table of booth is organized by teh DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
do this starting after school starts till the close of open enrollment. my fav spot is Seminary South SC.
yes it involves committement and volunteers...and NO MONEY .....but it is a winning issue.....do you thingk State R's gave poor folks ME for infants and moms cause they are humane? No , they see it as a winning issue and so do I , for whoever gets out there and sells it first.
our website doesn't even mention our signitature issue , Health Care. 0
" I was just visiting Tennessee and the Washington County Democrats sponsored a portion of the highway and it literally said on the sign “Yes, we swear there are a few Democrats in Washington County.” I think I know all three of them. All you can do is laugh. ".
Marvelous....Spectrum News 1 ..the cable news station is covering the entire press confernece of doctors and lawyers and plantiffs of today's lawsuit against the State.
FW Weekly's Static had more to say about Crystal Gayden,Tarant County Dem Chair than she does on her own law firm's website or Tarrant Dems do on thier website
You might think Crsytal would have some thing to say to us , whom she has decided to represent. So far she has chosen silence. Lord have mercy on all us Tarrant Dems.
The Deed is done......Crystal 'the Silent' Grayden is new Dem party Chair. So far its been radio silence from her and TCDP........
What i would love to see but is likely a headline to be unremarked upon by any D....Biden cut $39 Billion , that a B as in billion, in student loan debt...
Sound confusing? It is. Its different from what SCOTUS ruled against..and a Biden end a round as they say......Who better to explain and end the confusion before the GOP attacks.....I give them about 1/2 day to respond. Crsystal? I would guess no response is most likely.
interesting that there is no mention of the upcoming Chair election on the TCDP website or any SM sites.
could it be they only want insiders to run?
the only way to get an application and instruction on date, place ,etc. is if you subscribed to the Bulletin and read the June 16 issue. That would be a vanishing small number of souls.
fasinating...there is no reference to the Chair race on the website or recent bulletion. the only time it was mentioned was when it was burried in the June 16 Bulletin.
here is the link...u tell me ..is this an attempt to keep this process between insiders?
this is it: never another word on the wesbsite about the Chair Election .....or should I call it 'Chair selection"
Okay...i am guessing you are Joel...because your post doesnt reveal who you are.
thanks for making the point thought that even after being a long term TCDP insider , you don't seem to know who you exchanged extensive comments with me on FB messanger. What long term nsider wants to run the party wiithout knowing how to work the communicatiosn levers?
we don't need to talk. i showed u mine,,,my action plan as it were....
show all voters your actions plan , not just your friends at at HQ
sorry....i am not adept at LSL bloggint...i see ur name now ...i clicked on "author " and got nothing. so again sorry.
if u know me on FB its either redistricitng or Indvidual HC FTW or tim koss
Joel engaged with me onFB...extensively, braggins about what he has done including the removal of Deb. I said "Joel,,,this is dumb as hell to communicate via FB messanger...call me" and then gave him my home phone #. never heard a peep. Again if you know someone who is going to chose the chair....annointing an sinsidere with no political instincts and no plan and no communicatiosn skills is dooming not just Tarrant Dems but in fact every person in the USA to the New Confederacy.
the comments were directed at Joel who has friends here and i think has posted her. Nevertheless he seems uninterested in telling us mere voters what his plans are..........wow does that not sound like every other failed Chair?0..............................................
Update: One identified candiate Joel Pryer...i asked him to publsh his plans for this adminstration...so far silence
Seeing as he as been on the inside for the 2 previous administrations and took responsibly for ousting Chair Deb Peeples, it behooves him to tell us what he would do different.......I am guessing he thinks its his turn and simply wants the title otherwise he would advise us voters what he will do....cause as LoneStarLeft so eloquentailly put it.....As goes Tarrant County, so goes the nation.
Living as i do in one of FTW's most affluetn neighborhoods in 2022 I had no State Senate Candidate, no State Rep candidate, I haven' t heard from my Pct Chair once in 8 years, Not once. My City Councilman "MAGA" Mike Crain ran unoppsed and i had the only Democratic Candidate's yard signs in my entire zip code.
Being and insider Joel will likely win the Chair....i simply want Joel Pryer to tell this voter what he plans to do to get voters voting.
My family owned a major union contractor in the metroplex......texas passed "right to work" and that was a death sentence for union contractors....our journeymen made $25./hour + benefits in 1982. went non-union to stay cmpetitive and those same skills get $25/hour plus benefits 40 years later.
Right to work is the most evil legislation, thanks to the Taft-Hartley Act...which 75 years later, we still haven't overturn.
Cart before the horse....what we need in Tarrant County is for voters to know we exist to solve their problems............currently we are invisible to most....so why would they vote or voter for us? ....dozens of cheap ways to achieve that.......the rest will follow.......VOTER OUTREACH VOTER OUTREACH VOTER OUTREACH....on issues they care about,,,,,offer solutions to their problems....flyers in bars/restaurant alerting servers how they quality for Obamacare , with subsidies......tables at Seminary South or other malls talking about Chips, or O'care or Child Tax Credits......informing them of their options.......get in front of Neighborhood Associaitons and talk about the Texas RETURN TO HOME RULE...that will rouse the the proeprty ritghts folks........how bout a Letter the all the Editors often , on every issue of significance....... or get on the local poltical TV news shows.........respond to every R outrage with a EMAIL at any email address u can buy , steal or borrow,,,,,call it OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK.....(limit one per week). Post here at LSLN or other Texas newsletters........... You can actually post comments at the end of every Startle Gram editorial. It would take 1 minute to respond to the 4 Horeses Asses of the Apocolyse which is the Startel Gram editoral stable.........I get the feeling nobody at HQ reads anything......
advise us when events are about to happen, not after. revamp Bulletion to be USEFUL.
organize some protests.....pick your issue...."sponsored by TCDP"....loud and proud
get some Pct Chairs to hold some meetups for their entire neighborhood......some food, some music......lively like
I fianlly located TCU Dem Club..be0cause they are top secret tro anyone who doesn't know how to find them. As the author says , nothing at UTA or Tarleton, or TCC. Persons in the know say that A$M Law Shcholl leans left.
set up a sign across from Roots Mkt.....let them know this will not be tolerated.
revise website to something along Hays Dems site lines...where the home pages accentuates to anyone what the Party can do for voters not what voters should do for the Party.
and on and on....cost: about ZERO
Cart ...Horse
You have a lot of really good ideas. We need to do all of those things and we need the people there to do them. I'm planning on talking to the candidates who are running for Chair, I'm going to share some of your thoughts.
did i mention FREE FREE FREE or nearly so? we got to get voters engaged and involved in rescuing theirselves from the barbarians who would turn Texas into a fascist autocracy. Calling what they are doing anything else is weak weak weak.........which 900000000 we are currently known for, by our own voters.
Ps...since your from here...
note how many Trump signs vs our guys. My neighbor said he was afraid if he put up a Biden sign his boss would disapprove. Multiply that by most every church or organzation or most business's . We have been silenced because we let em shut us up.
I know these guys, in business, friends, social clubs, cigars lounges, they all went gaga for Trump....i had a 118 year old union business......i couldn't go to a trade association meeting cause it was all Trump.......
ps: i walked with IBEW for Beto in 2018. never heard anything about them in 2020 or 2022.
i see Reed O'connor at it again. I emailed everyone with an email address in Tarrant and part of Dallas Counties to organize a protest about his 1st Obamacare ruling......i got one response from a pct. capt wondering if i was spam............Joel Fryer said he actually organized a protest...i never heard about it.....he also says he knows nada about TCDP FB???? i only heard a few times from TCDP on Alison's personal Chair FB. i assume we don't own the other URLS like TCDP.com......i will repeat us seniors don't do SM and if we do its FB.....that is alot of people left out of the loop because TCDP wouldn't buy an email list and use it. Ask what the Bulletin subscription number is?
i know i sound like a broken record but i got this from Travis dems....1) i never google Travis Dem but they have my email
2) they have unions involved...TCDP says not one word nor has organized one thing with any union that i am aware of
"Join the Travis County Democratic Party, along with State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, Judge Denise Hernández, Pflugerville City Council Member Rudy Metayer, and ACC Trustee Stephanie Gharakhanian, at 6 PM on June 20, at UA Local 286 Plumbers & Pipefitters Hall in Austin to hear what it’s like to run for office and learn how to get started!"
There aren't enough unions in Texas. Thanks for all the intel.
here is what every pct capt should do; communicate this to your neighbors.........spent $15 and stick on it on every neighbor's door.
Dems are working for you; Saving you Medicare Pharma $$$ Big Time. R's want to cut SS and Medicare.....
Joe Biden and the Dems, working for you: help is on the way .But many people living with cancer in the U.S. will soon see long-overdue relief thanks to provisions of the INFLATION RECOVER ACT
see...problem/solution..rinse/repeat on a host of issues of which we MUST inform voters WE ARE WORKING FOR U
an editorial by a "maga Medical Consultant" with not one word of pushback or protest from any Tarrant Dems....maybe Startlegram editoral editor doesn't know who to call
https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article277971663.html
ps: Editorial starts off calling it a Biden rule when a close read shows Trump admin both proposed the rule and then fought against it.
a vigourous County Chair would respond in real time. alas crikets from TCDP5
TCU and Disciples of Christ get a shout out as part of the anti-Christian Nationalist movement , including Churches in Arlington and Kennedale
As i always said , tongue in cheek, lets put the C back in TCU. As a lapsed Episcoplian i was always bemused by the antics of the televanglist and religious hustlers of yore. Rev Jilton Tilton comes to mind with the grain silo signage in Carrolton....Admittedly they do have the best music. But now these crass Machivellians have figured out ways to accumulate threatening levels of money and power simply for the sake of having more money and power. Ken Copeland has a huge compound and a fleet of aircraft and a secruity force like a Christian Right Vatican up on Eagle Mountain lake.
Back to praise for TCU: TCU, DoC, Brite Divinity
"In one of the boldest declarations yet by a mainline Protestant church, the Indiana-based Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) passed a resolution opposing “Christian nationalism” and prophecy preachings that Christians must take over and “occupy” all government, maybe to trigger the coming of a messiah."
Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article277905508.html#storylink=cpy
lest anyone think its only the CR who want a theocracy...don't forget many Catholic Bishops have no use for the constitution ..here is one o four own home grown Tyler Bishop hater ....so much for peace and love.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/5/2185448/-Don-t-Listen-to-Evil-Woman-Hillary-Clinton-says-Catholic-Bishop
i get regular emails from Tarrant Replulicans.
the lastest is a day long seminar: the leadership institute is putting on a campaigner's school
ps : here is how Tarrant R's describe themselves
The Most Conservative Urban County in America
Meanwhile our TCDP stopped publishigng the Bulletion and we haven't heard a word from new leadership.
look Ma, no hands ......a politcal party (ours) with a booth at a mall...one guess which state. No not Tejas.
"I went to a central Minnesota weekend town fair a few weeks ago, and while my amazing Significant Other was shopping in a clothes booth, I decided to sidle over and watch and listen to the goings-on
in the next booth, sponsored and staffed by the Minnesota GOP"
fun stuff they do at that Booth......as far as i know there being no law against having a kind of year round booth at a mall......https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/29/2183988/-List-Of-Bad-Things-That-MN-Dems-Did-in-2023
If any one ever runs into our new County Chair, show her this article.
our current invisible Chair and perpetually / invisible County Party should go large on this this 'gift' from Texas GOP
i doubt they will mention it anywhere to anyone.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/28/2183781/-As-Texas-removes-worker-heat-protections-Biden-bolsters-them
Dear CC Gayden.......fall is here already almost.
organize Tables of HC care info providers....someone from TD plus other orgs....man those tables....and inform the uniformed voters of their HC options. Of particular interest is the expansion of Medicaid for infants and moms to 1 year. Also most seniors don't know the difference between tradiaitonal Medicare and Medicare advantage....u know there is a diff cause insuror advertise the hell out of medicare advantage.....and finally a bunch of people have no idea they qualify for huge subsidies for O'care policies....
make the visitor understand the table of booth is organized by teh DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
do this starting after school starts till the close of open enrollment. my fav spot is Seminary South SC.
yes it involves committement and volunteers...and NO MONEY .....but it is a winning issue.....do you thingk State R's gave poor folks ME for infants and moms cause they are humane? No , they see it as a winning issue and so do I , for whoever gets out there and sells it first.
our website doesn't even mention our signitature issue , Health Care. 0
BOLO ALERT......offical alert
BOLO for Tarrant County Democratic Chair......
Tarrant reminds one more of Fla or TN than the Beto/Biden loving county of yore
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/27/2183650/-Hey-Florida-Haters#comment_86677250
from comments'
" I was just visiting Tennessee and the Washington County Democrats sponsored a portion of the highway and it literally said on the sign “Yes, we swear there are a few Democrats in Washington County.” I think I know all three of them. All you can do is laugh. ".
Marvelous....Spectrum News 1 ..the cable news station is covering the entire press confernece of doctors and lawyers and plantiffs of today's lawsuit against the State.
Zurwaski vs. State
channel, 4, 5 8, 11 ..nope , no coverage.
FW Weekly's Static had more to say about Crystal Gayden,Tarant County Dem Chair than she does on her own law firm's website or Tarrant Dems do on thier website
https://www.fwweekly.com/2023/07/12/news-roundup-16/
You might think Crsytal would have some thing to say to us , whom she has decided to represent. So far she has chosen silence. Lord have mercy on all us Tarrant Dems.
The Deed is done......Crystal 'the Silent' Grayden is new Dem party Chair. So far its been radio silence from her and TCDP........
What i would love to see but is likely a headline to be unremarked upon by any D....Biden cut $39 Billion , that a B as in billion, in student loan debt...
Sound confusing? It is. Its different from what SCOTUS ruled against..and a Biden end a round as they say......Who better to explain and end the confusion before the GOP attacks.....I give them about 1/2 day to respond. Crsystal? I would guess no response is most likely.
interesting that there is no mention of the upcoming Chair election on the TCDP website or any SM sites.
could it be they only want insiders to run?
the only way to get an application and instruction on date, place ,etc. is if you subscribed to the Bulletin and read the June 16 issue. That would be a vanishing small number of souls.
fasinating...there is no reference to the Chair race on the website or recent bulletion. the only time it was mentioned was when it was burried in the June 16 Bulletin.
here is the link...u tell me ..is this an attempt to keep this process between insiders?
this is it: never another word on the wesbsite about the Chair Election .....or should I call it 'Chair selection"
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/bulletin/WhctKKXxBvrnfhwzfbSLZVTlslFcBgvLfhpxpXbbqCmwTtwtCgRqWWNbbFBcRVbNLWgWNkv
It's next Saturday, I believe. On the 8th. I didn't even see the bulletin, I just know that from asking around.
Okay...i am guessing you are Joel...because your post doesnt reveal who you are.
thanks for making the point thought that even after being a long term TCDP insider , you don't seem to know who you exchanged extensive comments with me on FB messanger. What long term nsider wants to run the party wiithout knowing how to work the communicatiosn levers?
we don't need to talk. i showed u mine,,,my action plan as it were....
show all voters your actions plan , not just your friends at at HQ
No, I'm Michelle Davis. I think I should change my name on here, because I thought everyone knew that. But I guess, that's a silly assumption.
But, I agree, people need to know your action plans.
sorry....i am not adept at LSL bloggint...i see ur name now ...i clicked on "author " and got nothing. so again sorry.
if u know me on FB its either redistricitng or Indvidual HC FTW or tim koss
Joel engaged with me onFB...extensively, braggins about what he has done including the removal of Deb. I said "Joel,,,this is dumb as hell to communicate via FB messanger...call me" and then gave him my home phone #. never heard a peep. Again if you know someone who is going to chose the chair....annointing an sinsidere with no political instincts and no plan and no communicatiosn skills is dooming not just Tarrant Dems but in fact every person in the USA to the New Confederacy.
the comments were directed at Joel who has friends here and i think has posted her. Nevertheless he seems uninterested in telling us mere voters what his plans are..........wow does that not sound like every other failed Chair?0..............................................
Update: One identified candiate Joel Pryer...i asked him to publsh his plans for this adminstration...so far silence
Seeing as he as been on the inside for the 2 previous administrations and took responsibly for ousting Chair Deb Peeples, it behooves him to tell us what he would do different.......I am guessing he thinks its his turn and simply wants the title otherwise he would advise us voters what he will do....cause as LoneStarLeft so eloquentailly put it.....As goes Tarrant County, so goes the nation.
Living as i do in one of FTW's most affluetn neighborhoods in 2022 I had no State Senate Candidate, no State Rep candidate, I haven' t heard from my Pct Chair once in 8 years, Not once. My City Councilman "MAGA" Mike Crain ran unoppsed and i had the only Democratic Candidate's yard signs in my entire zip code.
Being and insider Joel will likely win the Chair....i simply want Joel Pryer to tell this voter what he plans to do to get voters voting.
I know Joel, we're friends on Facebook. I'll reach out to him today.
For sure, we need people running in every single election.