Subj : Re: This needs to be everywhere
To   : Randall Schad
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Tue Oct 22 2024 17:47:06

 RS> I think I'm more bothered that the party has basically said the sitting
 RS> president isn't fit for office, but they're going to leave him there
 RS> until the election.

Thank you. We all should be bothered by that. Bothered by Democrats for not doing something about it, and bothered by Republicans for them not doing something about it either despite having the house majority.

 RS> I wanted to work a polling station for the '04 election, but was barred
 RS> by the state because I wasn't "a registered member of either of the two
 RS> primary political parties." Libertarians were really pounding the
 RS> grassroots thing at the time, so I'm like, "Okay, let's fix the state
 RS> laws to be more inclusive of third parties."

That's suspicious. I would trust the 3rd party even more in that case.

 RS> Every call and email I sent to the local and state offices went
 RS> completely unanswered, so I ended up on the phone personally with the
 RS> Secretary of State. Fought the battle and got a small win at the county
 RS> level, but without any backing, the state law wasn't getting changed.
 RS> 
 RS> Meanwhile, I was still receiving invitations to the
 RS> three-digits-per-plate fundraisers and donation begging slips. Sorry
 RS> folks, that's not how things happen.

Similar story: I recently wrote a letter to the Broome County Republicans chairman to ask him if he found a candidate for County Executive, and he didn't answer me at all and he just started sending me his newsletter, and the newsletter didn't answer my question either. (The ballot will answer my question I guess.)

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