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In the summer of 2016 I visited some relatives in New Hampshire near the border of Vermont. Everyone was a Bernie Saunders supporter. However, I was skeptical he would win over Trump, Clinton was the candidate for me. I was confident Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency. After Trump was elected President my lack of understanding about people’s frustrations with politics came down with a bump.

It’s been over a year of working to activate Democrats through my local town Democratic Committee, and not much progress has been made in the effort to recruit all registered Democrats.  First it took six months to get a meeting, and after we did start meeting again.  I found that when I did suggest anything those ideas were discredited. I now believe that Bernie Saunders was right about existing politics. Continue reading “A Good Deal For The 21st Century”

Reviewing the level of financial activity of Democratic Town Committees (DTCs) in Massachusetts compared to DTCs in Connecticut, 41% of Massachusetts DTCs spent money in 2016, compared to 96% in Connecticut.

If we compare the Democratic town committees to Republican town committees (RTCs) we see 37% of RTCs in 2016 in Massachusetts were financially active compared to 95% of RTCs in Connecticut

If local political Town Committees are the starting point for political parties in the State of Massachusetts, it indicates some serious issues with how our democracy is working at the local level. And with the comparison of Democratic and Republican town committees and their close approximation across the two political parties in the two States of Massachusetts and Connecticut, there seems to be some structural issues happening with both States.  Continue reading “Comparing Democratic & Republican Town Committees In MA & CT”

Okay, so I just got back from the Mass Democratic Convention. I was wondering what the DTC numbers were for 2017. I haven’t run the numbers yet for last year.

Reviewing Boston again because for the election year 2016, I didn’t put anything down for the city. However, that isn’t entirely true. A number of the wards have committees, and in 2016, they collected and spent money.

For 2017, guess what, out of the 22 wards in Boston only 7 have active treasury reports into the State site for campaign finance for local democratic town committees. I assume that means only 7 wards are active out of 22 in the city.

Here the financials for all of the Boston wards together Continue reading “Worcester Beats Boston On Democratic City Committee Finances”

Those Democrats who were not politically active before the 2016 election, and who were motivated to get involved with their local Democratic Party at the Town, City or State level because of the election of President Trump.

Characteristics of Committee Democrats are: Continue reading “Committee Democrats – Definition”