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Put Stein into the Massachusetts Senate
Put Stein into the Massachusetts Senate where she can participate in the day-to-day affairs of debate and influence, and have reason to issue a daily press release about the right things to do. What better place to do so than representing Cambridge and Galluccio's district?
A gubernatorial campaign is just a few months. Incumbancy in office, is at least two years, perhaps many more.
Responding: I am more concerned that a Republican governor is elected than re-electing the present governor.
Let's split-off the Democratic seats in the State House, and really participate in governing, not just looking in from the outside, as Stein has repeatedly for her (now) three state-wide campaigns.
We need winners, and not perennial candidates. Any one remember Howard Stassen?
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Only one species on earth does not have full employment and that is Homo sapiens.
--Paul Hawken (Blessed Unrest)
We built what history will record is the broadest and best-organized grassroots organization this Commonwealth has ever seen... We didn't build up this grassroots just to win an election. We built up the grassroots to govern in a whole new way, to make change real, and lasting, and meaningful.
Deval Patrick acceptance speech
Nov. 7, 2006
and Now...
We had this incredibly rich relationship that we built with the grass-roots network the last time. And then we got in, and we let it go. And there are reasons for that. But I think it's a terrible thing. We missed it. I missed it personally. And I think a lot of the folks in the organization missed it.
Governor Deval Patrick, to a room of supporters, trying to reignite the grassroots
February, 2010
A gubernatorial campaign is just a few months. Incumbancy in office, is at least two years, perhaps many more.
Responding: I am more concerned that a Republican governor is elected than re-electing the present governor.
Let's split-off the Democratic seats in the State House, and really participate in governing, not just looking in from the outside, as Stein has repeatedly for her (now) three state-wide campaigns.
We need winners, and not perennial candidates. Any one remember Howard Stassen?