Politicians aren't that mysteriousby Mischief Shai-hulud 10/14/2011, 12:22pm PDT
ndd wrote:
I was going to call senators' offices all day to make them confirm that individual contacts mean more than petitions.
Mob Thug: You look like you're hard to work with.
Driver: Not if we understand each other.
The nature of those scorpions we call politicians is to seek reelection. (Until they have enough political notoriety to launch an exciting career as a lobbyist or Fox News personality.) Your job as an organizer is to demonstrate to them that there's enough votes to back them up after standing up for the little guy that they will survive the political backlash that will come from the moneyed. The last thing they want is to end up like Russ Feingold, losing to a moron on the back of a series of political attack ads like these: