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Don't MoveOn if you can possibly help it

By Michael J. Smith on Tuesday August 15, 2006 06:57 PM

Norman Solomon reports:
Will MoveOn now poll its membership in New York about whether to make an endorsement in the Clinton vs. Tasini race?

I put the question to the executive director of the MoveOn.org political action committee, Eli Pariser. Here's his full reply: "We focus on the issues and candidates our members are excited about. We've heard almost nothing from MoveOn members on Tasini -- New York MoveOn members are more focused on winning back Congress, ending the war on Iraq, and Ned Lamont. As for our formal endorsement process, that's triggered where there are two viable candidates and where there's a baseline of interest from our members. Right now, this one doesn't meet that second threshold."

But the only reliable way to find out how interested New York members of MoveOn would be in a Clinton-or-Tasini endorsement is to ask them. And, evidently, that's a question that the people in charge of MoveOn.org don't want to ask.

On the issue of Clinton vs. Tasini, the current MoveOn stance comes across as a way for its leaders to make sure that MoveOn members in New York don't get to respond to a poll that would likely result in an endorsement of Tasini.

Surprise, surprise.

Comments (3)

bobw:

"two viable candidates and a baseline of interest from our members"

Moveon is prejudging who is viable, and disregarding the "interest" of its members. That means it's not a membership organization, but a voice of viability, or the establishment.

js paine:

isn't this odious

why st hill should be move on's
dart board by now

right on bobw

not a members org anymore
then the reverend moons church

just another nasty
candy coated
button holer for wayward naifs

Would somebody please give Joe Lieberman a blow job so that MoveOn can recapture its lost youth again ?

(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)

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