I have time available to help and I have experience dealing with people with a conservative mindset(It's really hard to call a veteran a terrorist lover and sound credible). I spent 12 years in uniform, eight of them in the "socialized Navy medicine as a pharmacy technician." I am married to a man who served for several years with the SEAL teams as a communicator as an Electronics Tech. I can hardly sew to save my life but I do have a lovely assistant(my daughter) who likes making baked goods and a seventeen year old son that liked helping work the booth back before I came to the realization that both parties suck.

Oh and we usually have a couple bucks we can burn for a good cause. Nothing huge but if combined with other folks seed money it might make a difference.

and I'm a singer and I give good radio. I also could try my hand at creating some viral Youtube videos.

Oh, and I write plays too.

see how many people would sign on to this mission statement? The name isn't important, but giving people a set of principals, goals, and a broad plan for reaching the goals and implementing the principals would let them sign onto something to which they can commit themselves. I think it should be as broad as possible without giving up substance. But it shoud cover the whole Liberal spectrum, IMO.

"What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." [September 14, 1960]"

... I'm in the "bold, persistent experimentation" camp. There seems to be a desire to strike out on our own, given the FKDP performance post-2006. I can see at least four strands of this, many of whom have posted here, and some of whom will again: NWP (+ERA), Greens, disaffected Hillary suppporters (some, but not all of whom, identify as PUMAs, whatever that may mean), single payer mobilization. (For my money, the NWP strand is furthest along the road toward organizing, simply because feminism has a great depth of experience and analysis. Mobilization for health care is a close second, because they're out there getting arrested.) We can't know how any of this is going to work out, or what will click. I'd argue that it's more important that all these strands learn to adapt and survive in local environments than it is they "share common principles." I'd suggest agreements on method are more important, like: (1) Don't make shit up, (2) don't steal elections, and stuff like that.

I either want to help someone run for office, or run for office myself. I want to be right in the thick of changing the course of events at my local level, and maybe at my national level as well. I want to make change and I don't want it to stop. To that end, I'm told I'm a pretty good writer, and I've been known to speak well in the past also, though I've rarely given formal speeches.

Also, I seem to be one of the younger people here, so I've got some extra energy to burn.

... for C listers running for local elective office, that would be wonderful ;-)

I have a lot of campaign experience, city council all the way up. I was in charge of all the data from a winning city council campaign (voter lists, fundraising lists, volunteer lists, ...). I've even helped organize campaign training events for hundreds of people over the years, from college dem groups to 30 something groups. I know what needs to be done and can help people plan and find what they need.

i live for research.

i've considered running for office, and may yet, but i hate being on tv.

Over at Cannonfire their talking up Peter DeFazio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_DeFazio

When he refused to support Obama's tax cuts for the rich and other giveaways to the same people who created this mess, Obama threaten revenge with the mobster line "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother". Which is pretty funny coming from Obama, a guy who never missed an opportunity to betray those who helped him, but were no longer needed.

While he did support "Obama's Insurance Welfare & Denial of Care for Women Act of 2009", he does seem like a good protest candidate.