your huddled progressive candidates yearning to take their rightful places in our municipal, county and state governments.
We need these people to win to make government work for all of us, not just the wealthy and politically connected.
But to win they have to overcome a natural money deficit -- which is why the Ninth Anniversary Edition of Saturday Morning Garden blogging, this coming Saturday, February 22, 2014, will be a National Local Fundraiser -- see, we can be just as oxymoronic as the next guy.
It is a mid-term election year and now — during the subdued primary process — is our chance to get not just Democrats, but more progressive Democrats, into our state, county or municipal offices.
Call it planting the seeds for a harvest next November.
Many times newcomers to dKos can't quite figure out why we have all these groups for gardening and home repair and crafting and painting and books: this is a site for politics!
Let's show them why community matters: at the most basic level without community there is no purpose to politics and it becomes nothing more than a scrim behind which factions scramble in a zero-sum game for short-lived political advantage.
What we need from you:
• Candidate name and position sought for a municipal, county or state office.
• Some background on the candidate and why you support them (and/or a statement from the candidate);
• Link to website for donations;
• Embed information for any graphic or photo you want included;
• Submission of information by Thursday, February 20, 2014
If you are able, please use ready-to-plug-in formatting so I or another editor can just cut and paste into the diary.
Kosmail your information to the group, Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.