[Sosfbay-discuss] "Dare to Win"

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

>From: Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org>
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:28:17 -0700
>To: Green South Bay Discussion <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] "Dare to Win"


>At the risk of repeating myself, anyone who runs with the admonition  
>that he will not run in any state (county, city) that a well-known  
>major party does not have a big lead over the other major party, does  
>*not* "dare to win," and is costing his party its credibility.  We  
>got the government we deserve, if we're really honest about it.
>Andrea

I often hear an allegation that David Cobb ran only in
"safe" states, or at least said that's what he was gonna do.
The facts don't support that allegation, though.
As far as I know, David was talked out of that "strategy"
at the 2003 convention in DC, along with almost all of its
proponents at the time, and he campaigned in every
state where he was on the ballot.

I've been asking the people who make that allegation
for a verifiable quote in a news story in a real
newspaper, or perhaps a video interview that wasn't
cut down to short phrases and reassembled for broadcast.
It's been a couple of years now and they
still haven't produced one.  Not one.  The closest they can
get is a dramatized opinion piece on MSNBC's Web site.

It seems to me that's pretty close to proof by default
that the Cobb campaign didn't actually pursue the
"safe states" strategy that the corporate media
*projected* onto it.  It's one of those things
that "everybody knows" that just isn't true.
And the belief has done more damage to our party and
movement than anything since the GPUSA chicanery.


Cameron