The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has pissed off the democrat state and other major leaders in the party. Apparently, many people in the know wrote in a private Democratic-listserv email obtained by The Daily Beast group.
The topic in these emails is the Organizing for Action (OFA), a political and community-organizing army that grew out of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. The OFA is considered a nonprofit, which functions in parallel-with the Democratic National Committee. The OFA was founded to mobilize Democratic voters and supporters in defense of President Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s agenda. Instead, the organization has drawn the intense emotions, both public and private, of grassroots organizers and state parties that are convinced that OFA inadvertently helped decimate Democrats at the state and local level.
“This is some GRADE A Bullshit right here,” Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Handwerk was reacting to news of OFA’s post-election retooling, which was shared “without comment” to the group of state-level Democrats in Texas.
At least from the outside it looks like a havoc. But make NO mistake, they are retooling the group.
“We’ve seen over the last eight-plus years a deterioration of permanent state infrastructure,” one red-state Democratic operative, who requested anonymity, said. “And OFA built an alternative infrastructure that was very top-down. OFA’s actions were wasteful, duplicative, and it made no sense… There were these tensions on the ground that we saw that all over the country. Local officials felt tossed aside. A lot of these red states were abandoned. The OFA model was never a 50-state strategy—it was about the president’s agenda.”
Funny how this parallels the Federal government or state governments, yet they see it in their own organization!
Be on the look for fake “outrage”!