Re: Early House Report Card
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And you didn't prove your point at all because you ignore political reality which includes not only the grassroots activism at which you excel, but also the *effective* strategy to translate that grassroots activism into results, at which you do not excel.
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The Situation:
Opponents of online gaming took ten years to pass UIGEA, all while they controlled Congress and the White House (Clinton was no friend of ours). They passed it by getting an up-or-down vote of the freestanding vote in the House, after winning the same vote in committee. They sneaked it through the Senate as UIGEA (not 'IUGEA') once they had this victory.
One year later, Rep. Frank introduced IGREA. He recently stated that he needed 50 cosponsors before he'd feel strong enough to put the bill up for a vote. After all,a loss here puts us back in square one.
Me: Rep. Frank says he needs more cosponsors, so we should help him out. Seems he knows the political process, and he's certainly been a fierce advocate for us. I start a thread requesting people to write and call good prospects. Additionally, I remind people every single week to write to their senators, as we'll have business there someday. The PPA does the same....they send emails to people in promising districts to ask them to immediately call Congress.
BluffThis!: BluffThis thinks it's all backroom so it must be so. Not only is it so, but it must be repeated ad nauseum, although there's nothing we can do except what we're already doing....generating political support for our position. So, he starts a thread saying Frank is wrong...Rep. Frank doesn't need 50 cosponsors for IGREA, and he (Frank) is a fool to think so. Bluff knows this because he heard it from an unnamed person here who "understands how things really work".
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Sure and you felt it necessary to litter that thread with multiple posts slicing and dicing everything I said.
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Simply replying to your posts to me.
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