Party building has begun.
Posted by U4prez at 2/20/2007 10:41 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Members of each of the two main parties are nominating leaders for the next 3 months. In June another election will be held. February primary is also in full swing. Runoffs are nearly complete and after this week we'll know who is in the showdown February 28th. We are putting together the framework for party platforms. Leaders will float the issues and let party members vote up or down.
We will be upgrading our server this weekend. Performance has been fine, but growth has been rapid and we intend to stay ahead of the curve. There have been a few times when we've had fifty or sixty people chatting, and others updating profiles and then the random visitors who are voting on your platforms. Next week we are running a big marketing push and we just want to make sure speed is what you expect.
The first editorial will start running today, and the voices section has also been updated with new comments and platform snippets.
We will be upgrading our server this weekend. Performance has been fine, but growth has been rapid and we intend to stay ahead of the curve. There have been a few times when we've had fifty or sixty people chatting, and others updating profiles and then the random visitors who are voting on your platforms. Next week we are running a big marketing push and we just want to make sure speed is what you expect.
The first editorial will start running today, and the voices section has also been updated with new comments and platform snippets.
Like teenagers waiting in line for hours to buy a pop artist’s newest compact disc., New Jersey Republican officials have rushed to line up behind Rudy Giuliani. The recent rampage of support for Rudy by 300 New Jersey Republicans is an example of the state party‘s problems. The party leadership is short sighted, shallow and preoccupied with image over substance. Rudy was undeniably NYC's greatest mayor. Prior to 9/11 Rudy took a city that was a capital of crime and murder, had horrendous financial woes and major racial tensions and turned it around beyond expectations. After 9/11 he demonstrated caring, courage and leadership beyond belief. However, this does not necessarily translate into being ready for the office of President of the USA. The early Republican support of Rudy by so-called Republican leaders is an exercise in political expediency that doesn't take into account the former Mayor's positions on the issues. They also do not take into account any of the fiscal principles that the Republican Party represents. There are hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents whom commute to New York City each and every day. These people endure an overwhelming tax burden inflicted upon them by liberal New Jersey legislators. As Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani added to their burden by enforcing and raising a commuter tax on them. Giuliani refused to accept the fact that these commuters these pump millions into the city's economy. Instead he took the liberal position that these hard working New Jerseyans were a strain on city services and needed to pay for it.
Not only was his commuter tax against Republican fiscal doctrine it was un-American. It was an example of taxation without representation. After all, New Jersey residents have enough liberal legislators of their own whom raise taxes, but they are able to vote them out of office. In this case Giuliani was able to increase his revenue by taxing people who could not do anything about it because we had no say,no vote. Perhaps invitations to a tea party in Boston are necessary to demonstrate the inherent un-American thinking in Rudy’s tax policies. Although Rudy was good for New York City he was not good for New Jersey. For that matter he was not good for the hundreds of thousands of commuters in neighboring Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut or Pennsylvania either. He was able to focus on a city within a state without having to worry about the overall concerns of all the states within our nation. The president of the United States does not have that luxury.As this presidential campaign unfolds, the bright marquee lights of Rudy’s name will dim and like teenagers buying a pop star’s new CD these local Republican leaders will find out that out of the 13 songs on the CD, only 1 track is a hit and it wasn't worth the money.
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I am not sure how we nominate party leaders and what issues are presented and how we vote. Also, why do we have an Independent party listing if they don't also get representation? How do we determine run offs?
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john edward received national media coverage on his "invisible" thought patterns of comtemplating a vice president running mate
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