The ENTIRE process including the precinct caucuses, county and state conventions AND the primary is what democracy is all about... and everyone has a right to have their views reflected by candidates and parties of their choice--- if the DFL wants the votes it had better respond to the concerns and problems along with the solutions people are looking for.
People are legitimately asking, "Where's the change?"
Right now, there isn't one single Native American Indian sitting in the Minnesota State Legislature or among Minnesota's Congressional delegation... this is turning into a very big problem for the Minnesota DFL who has been going after casino money for campaign contributions to the point where it looks like the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association owns the MNDFL lock, stock and barrel.
People want peace and real health care reform.
The time has come to put socialized healthcare on the table.
Minnesotans are fed up with paying for these dirty imperialist wars as well as funding the Israeli killing machine. People don't want to hear that these are Bush's wars; people are not stupid--- these wars belong to the Democrats as much as the Republicans and when people went to the polls the last time they cast their ballots expecting these wars to end.
People have the right to expect real change; they voted for progressive change and unless the MNDFL begins to reflect what people want and expect rather than worrying about how much it will cost to have to go through a primary election contest the MNDFL risks a lot of losses at the polls.
A very strong and clear signal should be sent to Barack Obama on all of these issues from the Minnesota DFL. DFL activists at the grassroots level and voters are pretty darn fed up with this politics as usual as problems of everyday ling continue to mount for so many people.
People see the MNDFL sabotaging legislation brought forward by its own progressive candidates like legislation designed to save the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant and the refusal to back the "Minnesota People's Bailout" as signs that the MNDFL doesn't give two-hoots about their problems.
Speaking for Minnesota's more than 40,000 casino workers let me assure you that casino workers who the MNDFL abandoned and left working in loud, noisy, smoke-filled casinos at poverty wages without any rights, we are not "happy campers."
Make up your minds if you would rather have the campaign contributions from the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association or our 40,000 votes.
Many Minnesotans are pretty darn fed up--- keep it up DFL and the working people will once gain chew you up and spit you out as they leave the DFL in droves to organize a new political party more in keeping with the original Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.
No peace; no votes.
No socialized healthcare; no votes.
No jobs; no votes.
We can provide the people of this country with a world-class public healthcare system paid for with funds saved from ending these dirty wars; almost ten-million new jobs across this country would be created in the process.
Instead of 800 U.S. military bases dotting the globe, we should have a vast network of community-based healthcare centers strung out across our country.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
Alternate State Convention Delegate, Roseau County
Former MNDFL State Central Committee Member
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