Big organizations are doomed to fall in upon themselves and become bureaucratic nightmares. All politics are best delt with at the local level.
I have given this some thought and I know that someone will have a better idea, and I welcome constructive comments. I'm sure I'll get some not so positive remarks as well....
The following is geared toward those among us who are unhappy with the way the C4L is organized, the way it has behaved, and still want to keep the organization in some shape or manner.
If you want the C4L to just go away or you never intend to participate in any C4L organization at all, ever, under any circumstances, that's fine, I respect that and honor your decision. I've also proposed that rpfs incorporates and/or creates it's own PAC....
I'm not quite ready to throw the C4L baby out with the Hack bathwater.
I propose that, if we want the C4L to exist and feel comfortable working with and/or within a national organization:
1) We elect a non partisan board, see below The national C4L is minimized as much as possible, Tate, Hopper, Howard, Rothfeld and anyone else who is a party hack must go.
2) The purpose of the national C4L organization should be to operate the website, facilitate communications within the grassroots and between the grassroots and all candidates and elected officials and to foster innovative efforts to further the core values of the organization.
4) The C4L website is streamlined and made more user friendly, using grassroots talent selected by the national C4L board I'm not a website guru, but surely we can do better...
5) No more mass mailings for donations from national.
6) All positions within the C4L, including coordinators at all levels and national positions, will be elected, elections will be held within 6 months, (national ASAP)as well as a charter adoption, regardless of the % of members to population. One member, one vote in a state is all you need. A basic charter along the lines of what's been done elsewhere will do as a starting point. The voting will take place on the renovated C4L site.
7) When this is done, our state organizations are fully and immediately considered independent entities, and recognized as "the (insert name here) Campaign for Liberty" All mailing list, phone lists, member lists etc are turned over to the state organizations.
8) The state organizations receive 90% (or whatever is agreed on) of all donations, members or not, from their state. Donations from states that are not organized or from outside the states will be pooled and 90% (or whatever is agreed on) will be distributed equally among the organized states.
9) If necessary and approved by the state members, additional money could be given to the national organization for a specific purpose, with full disclosure to all members (how the money will and is spent etc.) without having to ask for it.
10) No more nationally generated "regional conferences" with "training sessions." If there is a need for training, we have plenty of videos from past seminars to draw from--make them accessible to all paid members. (hopefully someone can edit them for brevity...
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I like all of the suggestions in this thread, especially KramerDSP's, most can be done at the state level......
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