Eva Ritchey: "Hungry for people to do the right thing"

The interviews just keep getting better.

I remember Eva from the NCDP Convention this past July. She was very hurt that the rest of the party would not even give a nod to the pro-lifers. By the time it was all over I was feeling a bit sad for her.

Thanks again for the excellent reporting on strong women in North Carolina.

gives one much to think about. The whole "pro-life" thing is a hard one for me. Maybe I'll write about it sometime. If I were ever going to be a single issue voter, this would be my issue. But I'm not, so I suppose it's moot. I'll take a pro-life D over a pro-choice R any time.

But I'd rather have a "life-choice" Dem who has strong convictions around the issue . . . but recognizes those convictions are fundamentally spiritual or religious in nature - and should not be imposed on others.

We're "in an orbit outside of the Democratic Party" in large part because we were disinvited by the Old Guard.

I think that Progressives would be well-served, at this point in our Party culture, to grow patience and to wrest control from the intransigent Old Guard. It's a real bitch sitting in those lousy meetings, accomplishing nothing week after week after week, being discounted and disregarded by people who know less than they ought.

Carol Peterson is a great example of an Old Guard Republican who doesn't even begin to understand the depth of her ignorance to progressive issues. I'd be shocked to find myself at a meeting and have her lend my views any creedence whatsoever.

I guess we'll eventually have to go to the stoopid meetings and bear with the patronage system until we can dismantle it.

If the Old Guard wants to prevent its own irrelevancy and stagnation, they'd open the doors wide, acknowledge the amazing energy and innovation in the progressive movement, and say "let's join together to make this a better place."

They won't, of course, because they're fat and happy. We're just discontented and disenfranchised, frustrated from too many years of being blown off by the people we now have to go sit next to in these godawful meetings.

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And my hare is rabid.

I hear you about not being able to stomach the folks who can bear with the plodding minutiae of these interminable self-love sessions.

Now, when I'm king of the world, we'll have brief meetings. We'll do most of our business via email and teleconference. I will crack the freaking whip and tell folks that they are going on too long, too tangentially, or too narcissistically. I run meetings now, and those suckers are tight. Not a minute wasted.

If only... if only...

Carol's? David Gantt's? Who else will be up? Oh, Republican Chair Nathan Ramsey, that's right . . . Now, that would be interesting, no?
 
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