California Communities Call For Democratic Leaders to Step Down
By Kiril Kundurazieff
SEJ Writer
DONKEY CREEK, CA. (SEJ) -- In 5 Northern California Hamlets, a 43 year-old tradition of residents gathering in the Community Meeting Hall to conduct local business became a vehicle to send a message to the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ): Howard Dean must go, and Sen. Harry Reid(D-NV), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), and even State Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald (D-CO) can join him in leaving their Party Leadership posts.
An e-mail, approved by a paper ballot 149-1 in Donkey Creek Tuesday, calls on "someone, anyone, with "Balls" actually" to go to the floor of the House, and Senate, at the next convenient opportunity, to call for their resignations, and for new votes to replace them, alleging that "they have misled the rank, and file into supporting Anti-American, Anti-Western, and Pro-Socialist policies, activities, and beliefs, thus playing havoc with the fabric that holds this nation together in its Social, Cultural, Economic, Military, and Edumicational life."
The E-mail was then sent to every Democrat in the House, and Senate, and twice to "Independent" Bernie Sanders for good measure.
"It absolutely affects us locally," said Donkey Creek Mayor Stan TheMan, who drafted the e-mail on his Cell Phone, and sent it. "It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, our Cats, Dogs, and Ferrets, who are being brainwashed to believe this crap.
At least four other Northern California Hamlets, spurred, only a little, in part by the possibility of being able to distract the Mainstream Media from the latest arrest of the embarrasing Cindy Sheehan, endorsed sending similar e-mails during Tuesday's meetings: Brokeback Hill, Dummville, Cahndom and Ptui.
In Donkey Creek, the e-mail item came at the end of a roughly four-hour meeting that was devoted mostly to the local affairs of the Hamlet of 1,234 ( only 150 residents are legally registered to vote in elections, and Community Affairs ) located in the far northern reaches of the state. Among the other items discussed was whether the Hamlet should finally allow a Big Box Store ( Rite Aid Drugs ) to move into the neighborhood.
The discussion took less than half an hour, reflecting the intense eagerness of the residents to show their displeasure with the direction of the Democratic Party and unanimity over the decision to exclude those not registered to vote in the proceedings ( "Since they don't care enough to register to vote..." seemed to be the general sentiment ).
"As a teacher I can't say to my kids that what happens on the national level doesn't affect us at the local level," Wendy Behrger told the Donkey Creek meeting. "Would that we could all be in a cocoon, spend the day hugging trees in the forest, and protesting the prospect of having a Big Box Store nearby, but that is not the case."
Jes A. Cedee, a local justice of the peace, criticized the lack of time and attention the Democratic Leadership pays to issues that matter to the rank and file.
"They spend more time on Far Left Issue Items, than on things that truly matter," said Ceedee, who said the Hamlet is made up of people from just "a little" left of "Mainstream of America."
Iwana H. Yorhand defended the Party Leadership, saying some of her best friends were Socialists, and she "once had dinner with Bill and Hillary Clinton while on a business trip to DC, during his Impeachment troubles, and thought he was a really smooth operator who knows how to... do things."
"I am so grateful that our president didn't just put his head in the sand ... " she said.
"How many attacks have we had on our culture, laws, and schools since JFK as assasinated?" asked another resident, Noah Brainer. "Maybe some of the Democrats in government, and our schools, will sit up and take notice that we're not going to be patsies, anymore, if more of us stood up like that school kid the other day, and called them on that shit. How about we have a Million Patriot March on Washington, huh? I betcha THAT would get the attention of the rest of the world!"
This vote is not the first time Donkey Creek has used its Community Forum to take a state or national stand. Last year, for example, the Hamlet went on record for the Iraq war, and the fight against terror by a vote of 148-0 ( A Mr. John "Tip" E. Canuh, and a Mr. Fred Tyler, would have voted in support, too, but were out of town that day ).
Sanders issued a statement after all of the Communities had "flooded my in-box with this nonsense" saying that although some of the rank and file may THINK that the Democratic Leadership "has been a disaster for our country, and a number of things they have done over the years may very well not have been good for America, and especially its poor, women, and minorities," given the reality that the Far Left, and the Unions, control the Apparatus, and the Purse Strings, and Election Season is around the corner for 2006, and 2008, "it would be impractical to talk about changing the Leadership, and especially the Agenda, of the Party."
Other prominent voices in the more moderate nooks, and cranies, of the Democratic Party, refusing to permit their names to be used for this story, said Congressional Democrats should run with the resolution: "We should be finding a fresh new approach to governing, and rethink many of the core beliefs, and associations, of the Party, and of Liberalism, for a new century" seemed to be the general view.
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