Reply #184: "Skinner is a former professional organizer for the DLC."

[Zhade]

Someone's spreading negative rumors about our own Skinner...

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/dcforum/DCForumID4410/2.html#20

First things first. Skinner is a former professional organizer for the DLC. Skinner is a disciple of Al From. He's been using DU as an instrument to promote Al From's agenda since the birth of DU.

I was one of the original orginal DUers. I was originally using the id "Brad Majors" (from Rocky Horror), them went to using my real name on the forum. I wasn't banned from DU. I walked out when Skinnner started allowing post promoting keeping Bush's entire tax cut package in place when Graham's Presidential campaign started advocating that position.

Skinner has one of the foulest tempers you can possibly imagine. Insulting. Rude. Profanity that would make a Navy Chief Petty Officer blush. Then he deletes his flames to leave no evidence to understand why there are charred ruins all over the forum. DU is a reflection of every bit of that. I've known DU.com was going to blow it in a big, ugly, public way for a long time because of what I saw from the people who manage the site. It's very sad. It's a place progressives have come to rely upon on the net. I think DUers should consider themselves lucky that DU lasted as long as it did before the management showed their true natures publically. Progressives cannot rely upon the wildly fluctuating emotional state of it's DU's operators to plan on DU being there for important organizational tasks. As one of the very early unofficial Dean online organizers, I consider one of my greatest successes to be keeping the Dean campaign for the most part off that board when it was suggested by other unofficial early online organizers, and, as they say, the rest is history. I wish I could take credit for having foreknowledge of what would be accomplished on the blogosphere by Dean. No. No. No. No. I was clueless on that. However, I did keep the unofficial Dean campaign early volunteers from being stopped dead in their tracks by a 16 month long DU flame war.