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In reply to the discussion: GOP Election Fraud in Wisconsin [View all]I cut my teeth on Organizing for America back in 2007. I would like to say my efforts to get out the vote help our president get elected. I remained a very active volunteer with the Obama for America. Our organization and many others flooded Wisconsin for weeks, with calls to get out the vote. We were told that the president had our backs and after we laid the ground work, he would be there to bring out the vote. In a big way
This never happened . A 2 second tweet is not the same as appearances and obviously had no effect. For weeks we made calls and reported those results to the to our manager and him to his district manager. We were told many things that never seemed to come to fruition. Many more than just the president would appear and turn out the voters, against Walker.
If It was a local fight why were we and other offices across the country, calling for weeks on end. (We were also doing the same in Pennsylvania, including to giving up our free time to drive to different areas and register voters.) I can't even begin to tell you some of the things that the voters of Wisconsin told me and my fellow interns. A showing from Washington was one thing that we and they expected.
The bottom line our president chose to go to fund raisers in other states. We felt that something was wrong but no one told us anything. The president never showed, the plug was pulled and
we lost, big. Call it what ever you like, his advisers, or the president never show. They knew all along that they were not going to win but did not disseminate that information to the rank and file.
What do you call a leader that does not show up to do battle in the face of adversity. He stood in the back row and watched the very hearts, and minds of his supporters be crushed, while waiting for the big guns. I am sorry that was a chicken shit move and one I would subscribe to a coward and not a leader.