Being Howard Empowered ~~ Musings on a Fine January Day

Remember? This time last year the BBB was in a fever. Howard was running for DNC Chair, and the blog was jumping! HQ staff also seemed to be in a fever to keep us from doing "too much" ~~ Or, their idear of the *wrong* things. No one official ever seemed to really figure where to put all that blog energy. Where to direct it.

Looking further back, to the '03/'04 campaign, that seemed to be a problem, too. Hence, the frantic letter writing (My score: over 560 letters to Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New York, Florida. Oh, I've forgotten some. . . . )

Sure, our fundraising prowess was phenomenal. Still is. But everywhere I look around the Howard Empowered World (us, the BBB, DFA, DNC), I still see a paucity of real idears about what to DO with us! A goodly percentage of the Democratic Base is never going to be flush. Is always going to be struggling to bring home bacon, put food on their families, and find a little space for some pleasure. And yet they (we) once touched by Howard, seeing the dream (as yet, still dream) of what a good man, an honest man, an energized man could possibly bring about want to, beg to, be used.

I wish I saw someone, somewhere, looking to fix that hole. To be looking to find a way to use that energy, hope, time, and stamps. Of every where I go, this blog is the most effective, in fact: gathering idears and plans from everywhere, making this a central place to come if one *needs* to do something. But we're still small, and much devolves on one very busy woman's shoulders. . . .

Idears, anyone?

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