No third party, no third way.

[JDPriestly]

6. We already have these things in California.

Where is our unified master plan on that? Youth groups? College groups? Voter education? Can't we agree these are good things and work on them?

Our state Democratic Party has a plan to register voters, work with different age groups and educate voters. And guess what, Democrats are winning in California.

That's not the problem. The problem is motivating those who will never join a political group, who get their news from TV and talk radio and who, if registered, don't vote regularly.

The Third Way Democrats are not all that interested in your ideas about grass-roots organization. They are focused on getting lots of money from the corporate donors to fund TV ads and other forms of paid campaigning.

That is why strengthening our grass-roots activists is good. If people want to call themselves Roosevelt Democrats, why not? After all the Third Way calls itself Third Way. We have DFA, and Move-On supports a lot of Democratic candidates very effectively.

The bureaucracy of the Democratic Party should not foolishly try to discourage Progressives. We are the people who stand on street corners handing out Democratic Party literature. We are selling tee-shirts and buttons and registering voters. Don't discourage us. We are the soul of the party. I cannot picture the Wall Street donors talking to voters at my local farmers' market. That's what I can do better than they can. And it's that one on one voter information that is needed. We cannot compete with Republicans when it comes to spending money on TV ads and buying radio stations.