tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53351212011-04-21T18:11:45.786-07:00eParty.orgThe Process is the Platform. Democratizing Democracy - Voice and Choicemarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335121.post-1097196805965967092004-10-07T17:34:00.000-07:002004-10-07T18:04:29.683-07:00First Thoughts on eParty Platform the eparty should have a basic platform at the outset. i believe it should be socially progressive and economically conservative which would have the broadest appeal to mainstream urban professionals. following are my thoughts and i welcome input... * Deocratizing Democracy - opening up the political process to enable more voices and choices. this could includemarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335121.post-1097101866537466792004-10-06T15:26:00.000-07:002004-10-07T17:34:42.290-07:00Taking Over the Democratic Party from Within i believe the best path to give voice and choice to the people is to form a web based coalitiion (eparty.org) similar to moveon.org that is focused on selecting and electing officials who are committed to representing the people. in order to gain eparty nomination status and full support these candidates will agree to eparty tenets. eparty tenets markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335121.post-1097101531919675372004-09-06T15:17:00.000-07:002004-10-06T15:26:50.230-07:00Uniting Many Movements into One we must get all the movements working together with a shared goal of opening up the process and winning. we need each successive candidacy from dean to gonzalez (sf mayor) to propell the movement, not just the candidate, so that when we lose by a slim margin, we still win by a large one in the longer run, so that when we win a new seat at the table, we bring the markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335121.post-934349562003-04-28T18:19:00.000-07:002004-10-06T15:12:09.456-07:00eParty - Lets Build a Web Based Political Lobby at the recent O'Reilly conference i connected with peter kaminsky, ross mayfield, mark graham and joe kraus on this concept and volunteered to start getting the ideas down so we can all brainstorm at least virtually on it. i welcome input from anyone who shares an interest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335121.post-1097100751371681722003-04-06T15:12:00.000-07:002004-10-06T15:12:31.370-07:00eParty Vision my vision for the eParty is to spawn a web based political movement which unites 5 million americans within a democratically controlled lobby where everyone has a completely equal voice. i believe that it would be possible for this group to become the most powerful (and feared) lobby. moveon.org has proven that it is possible for people to come together on the web and be heard on markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.com0