Ah, we’ve finally reached the moment…
We’ve named our Progressive Platform, we’ve listed no less than 109 of our Progressive Elected Officials (and still counting), and now we’re due to list our Our Progressive Candidates.
This process has been great, and I want to thank everyone who has participated in this open source, collective netroots effort: you all are doing us in the netroots proud.
So, with no further ado, read below to discover how I’m going to structure the nominations process for Our Progressive Candidates and then, please, roll up your sleeves and join in!
I’d like to make this part of the process less about numbers and more about quality.
I’m asking for you to list the names of one or two candidates Currently Running for Office in the format we’ve used before
Name (with hyperlink if possible)
Office
Location
Core Issues TAGs (see body of this post for list)
However, different from before, I’d like you to add a brief rundown of YOUR rationale for supporting these one or two candidates. Further, I want to point out that it should be of no concern to you if someone has mentioned your candidate before. This is about YOUR nomination, not as much about numbers or making a list.
I’ve been asked whether I intend to make an ACT Blue page for these candidates. Let me put it this way, when this project is complete, and we’ve got a list of our Platform, our Elected Officials, our Candidates and our Organizations…my goal is that we have a discussion about exactly what we want to do from there.
To the best extent possible I think we should make this information public and accessible…hence anyone can do with it what they wish…AND we should discuss/debate what we want to do with it here on BMT. It’s up to us.
With that I’d like to invite you to do two things:
First, please nominate one or two Progressive Candidates below…Name (link), Office, Location, Issues, Reasons You Support.
Second, I want to BEG YOU to continue to add Eelected Officials either in this thread or back at the last post. Here’s why. The more I’ve “lived with this” the more I’m convinced that 109 is NOT enough, I’m convinced that comprehensiveness is CRITICAL on the elected officials list.
These people deserve to be known and when I hear a name that should be on the list that we missed: like Kamala Harris, District Attorney of the City of San Francisco…it just bums me out. We should try to make this lest as broad as possible…even to the point of doing research and breaking new ground.
So, while we nominate Candidate…please, let’s keep adding names to Our Elected Officials and make this a resource that Progressives everyhwere can use and find valuable!