A mid-term convention in Denver? Colorado, DNC

AlterNet's Tom Cosgrove has sent a letter to Howard Dean suggesting that the DNC host a mid-term convention to motivate the grassroots, become the 'party of ideas', and set the stage for a big win in '06. He suggests Denver and St. Louis as possible locations. (Yeah, on the Eastern Seaboard, Missouri counts as "west".)

Our practice, for decades, has been to leave issues and ideas alone until the Presidential election cycle starts. By then it is too late to shape the public’s image of our party. In the last cycle we nominated a man based on the perception that his resume made him the strongest “horse” against President Bush. Now less than six months after the election who can name the big ideas of the Kerry campaign?

We need to start now. You can make it happen now. Specifically, I urge you to convene a Democratic National Committee mid-term convention, next year, as a Convention for America’s Future.

Define the agenda of this convention, now, as having a debate about ideas – for the United States, at home and abroad. Set up a process focused on getting ideas, collecting data that determine whether these ideas are good or bad, and invite people from all ranks of the Party, to debate those ideas as participants.

Next summer the DNC should host this convention of ideas in a city in the center of America, away from the “blue coasts.” Let Denver and St. Louis compete to host this event as both are located in what certainly will be battleground states in 2008.

Hat tip to Dan Carol.

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Kari Chisholm | May 9, 2005 | Comment on This Post (1 so far) Permalink: A mid-term convention in Denver? Colorado, DNC

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