This is a great project. Granted, with numbers like these, it won't be a whole-scale takeover, but it will be part of the more gradual silent revolution to simultaneously reform Democratic parties around the country, and to bring in much needed new blood--Chris. Cross-posted from Calitics
The California progressive blogosphere is growing and maturing. One of the more concrete examples is the ongoing organizing around the CDP delegate elections this weekend. Much of December was spent encouraging people to run and now a large number of bloggers have filed their papers and are publicly campaigning for election
Our efforts are building on those of DFA after the 2004 election. A large number of reform oriented activists were elected as delegates. They will now be joined, hopefully, by a number of bloggers. From there they can influence the decisions of the CDP and work their way up in the party structure.
Below the fold is a list of all of the bloggers running, the district and their real names as available and a link to their statements. The chart may be incomplete. There are
20 21 people running across the state, which is a fantastic start! If I have missed anyone please let me know.
Update [2007-1-11 0:31:48 by juls]: I added Erik Love of the Courage Campaign to the list. 21 aah aah aah (/count)
Update [2007-1-11 3:4:39 by juls]: Two more changes. I took off Eden because he got an appointment as delegate and thus will be withdrawing his name to open up another slot. So we already have one in there. On that note
Randy Bayne and his wife Marcy are already serving as delegates down in AD 10. Randy is the Amador Co. Central Committee Vice-Chair. h/t to blogswarm for letting me know about Ellen who is a new addition to the list.
Update [2007-1-11 3:26:19 by juls]: Last one before I go to bed. These come from the comments on the Calitics post. I have added EDN and Chris to the list. Also, Steve Maviglio just lobbied me, so he is going up too. Even though he is a professional hack, he still qualifies as a blogger and is one of the good guys. I will be personally voting for him this weekend in the 9th.
Update [2007-1-11 13:37:37 by juls]: Couple of changes. Predictors real name is up there. gjones has pulled out, so she is off the list. Two new additions Kai and Jen. That makes 25 fabulous bloggers.
