During the first years of Dean's 50-state strategy, we had state-level business execs funding local party ops directly. I won't name names but the types of things were such as having full-time staffers in the red counties, candidate recruitment and training years before a run for office, year-long fellowships on key issues, e.g. healthca…
During the first years of Dean's 50-state strategy, we had state-level business execs funding local party ops directly. I won't name names but the types of things were such as having full-time staffers in the red counties, candidate recruitment and training years before a run for office, year-long fellowships on key issues, e.g. healthcare, water, economic development, etc., and local think tanks designed to capture earned media.
Starting with Obama, money was largely centalized at the national level, and the party has become a once in four years event planner for a presidential election. All the money was and is sucked up to fund the presidential campaign and the national legacy media buys. Local parties are by and large, the cobbler's children without shoes.
During the first years of Dean's 50-state strategy, we had state-level business execs funding local party ops directly. I won't name names but the types of things were such as having full-time staffers in the red counties, candidate recruitment and training years before a run for office, year-long fellowships on key issues, e.g. healthcare, water, economic development, etc., and local think tanks designed to capture earned media.
Starting with Obama, money was largely centalized at the national level, and the party has become a once in four years event planner for a presidential election. All the money was and is sucked up to fund the presidential campaign and the national legacy media buys. Local parties are by and large, the cobbler's children without shoes.