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In reply to the discussion: We Are Following Chuck Schumer's Plan To Defeat Republicans [View all]gab13by13
(33,091 posts)The Magat party doesn't play by the rules, laws, and norms that it used to play by. Democrats need to up their game.
I live in a bright red town, Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats but 50 years ago powerful people wanted to strip coal and frack for gas on our pristine watershed. They also wanted to build a coal cleaning plant in a flood plain.
I organized our town of mainly Republicans to fight these people. I was the spokesperson for the largest crowd to ever attend our council meeting. I organized a group of people and we held meetings and could only get one local newspaper to cover our meetings because the other papers were owned by powerful people. Our group got the fish commission involved to attend public hearings re: our watershed.
We were behind the 8 ball because of Dick Cheney's fossil fuel law, the law wasn't on our side.
When all was said and done we put so many restrictions on the strippers, frackers that we protected our water supply.
My district Democratic chairlady asked me to run for borough council, I ran and won 2 terms overwhelmingly in a bright red town because I let the people know what could happen to all of us, both Republicans and Democrats.
Unwashed Magats may be affected more adversely than Democrats and we should have let those people know that, just like I did 50 years ago.
Don't give me crap about attacking Democrats, I have never in my life voted for anyone but. I was just upset what Schumer said to Chris Hayes, it still pisses me off.