By Tom Hartman
“This Is Not a Drill: Infiltrate Your Local Dems Before It’s Too Late
“This is the overlooked role that launched a revolution — and it’s still wide open for progressives…”
“If progressives hope to have any shot at influencing today’s Democratic Party and kicking out the corporate sellout Democrats and replacing them with real-deal progressives, then we need to get to work right now to do exactly what the Tea Party did a decade and a half ago to take power.
“And it starts in our own backyards.”
“It starts with Precinct Committeemen and women — people who are either appointed or win local elections with very few votes at stake, in some cases only 10 or 20 votes — to gain positions that pretty much anyone can hold but which wield enormous power.
“It’s Precinct Committee Persons who elect district, county, and state party officials and delegates, who choose primary nominees that then go on to hold elected office, and who help draft a party’s platform.”
“Control the primaries — as the Precinct Committee Members do — and you control the ultimate candidate, the election, and ultimately the nation, as we’ve seen repeatedly since the Tea Party era.”
Read the entire article: The Hartman Report: This Is Not a Drill: Infiltrate Your Local Dems Before It’s Too Late