{"id":711,"date":"2005-02-01T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","slug":"dean_for_dnc_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Dean for DNC Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a few days, and think that while the Governor has said and done some things that strike me as silly and opportunistic, that he\u2019s made a few points which I think would make a profound difference in creating a Democratic Party with a future.<\/p>\n<p>When he was running, he said something that I approved of profoundly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks&#8230;&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/004247.php\" target=\u201dbrowser\u201d>got busted<\/a> by the politically craven and correct and folded like a wet tortilla; that was a shame, and probably cost him my support.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s saying the same thing in a different way over on his website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Show up! Never concede a single state, county, district or even a single voter to the Republicans. We must be active and compete in all 50 states and work with the state parties to build a truly national party.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that sits just fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>Because even if he sets out doing it like he did Iowa \u2013 with a coalition of the pierced and the purple-haired leading the way \u2013 the reality is that a Democratic Party that\u2019s deeply engaged in all 50 states is a Democratic Party that won\u2019t be able to help beng shaped by the whole of America.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a thing worth yelling about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about this for a few days, and think that while the Governor has said and done some things that strike me as silly and opportunistic, that he\u2019s made a few points which I think would make a profound difference in creating a Democratic Party with a future. When he was running, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}