Candidates Needed... Now.

Apart from Connie Stokes and  and maybe   Alisha Morgan   there is very little buzz these days   about  people  throwing their hats in the Ring  for  Statewide constitutional office.   No one for Attorney General and no one for   Secretary of State.  The clock is ticking.  It is  ticking  very fast.   This strikes me  as  at once depressing and  foolish.

Depressing that  Democrats  do not have much of an immediate bench and  foolish because  you just know that  the GOP is going to  be  falling all over itself  to  push  more onerous   requirements for  getting to cast a ballot,. 
There is palpable anger and energy in the  African American Community over  the eviscerating of  Section 5  of the VRA and what has happened in  Texas and North Carolina in recent  weeks.  Nothing gets out the vote  like laws which  threaten all the hard work that's been done  over the last 50 years, let alone the last 150 years.

Due respect to   Steen Miles  and Dr. Rad,   Michelle Nunn is  our probable nominee for Senate.   It's a winnable seat given  the GOP field.  But lacking  a solid  field operation  and  a lack of a substantial  and diverse  slate it is  going to be far more difficult to get ot our vote..
I get the rationale  for waiting  until 2018.  Mayor Reed, Leader Abrams, Senator Carter, Representative Holcomb.  Columbus Mayor Tomlinson,  DeKalb DA Robert James all are content to wait  four years. Some are passing things up now  because  they   are not interested,  but the big thing is ( and I have talked to most everyone I mention) there is a real sentiment that we lack the capacity to Get out the Vote  and the prospect  of having to build their own statewide field organization since none  exists is the biggest problem they see and  without  putting  to much of  a point on it  they look at the DPG  and they shake their head. 

Other than the  Senate race   and maybe  School Superintendant,  we need to be realistic 2014.   But  if we want to be a player in 2016  in the race for the White House  we have to get our act together as a state party to look  credible to  statewide candidates, High Dollar Donors,  The Clinton  Campaign and the  DNC.

The sad part about this is that  we are going to repeat this process in 2016  since  there is a strong chance that  Senator Isakson will not be running.. 

We can talk about Unity and the need for  money until  we are blue in the face.  what we need is organizational  and operational  credibility  as soon as humanly possible. Sometimes I thing  we do more to suppress our own vote than the GOP  could  ever hope to achieve.

I get the rationale  for waiting  until 2018.  Mayor Reed, Leader Abrams, Senator Carter, Representative Holcomb.  Columbus Mayor Tomlinson,  DeKalb DA Robert James all are content to wait  four years. Some are passing things up now  because  they   are not interested,  but the big thing is ( and I have talked to most everyone I mention) there is a real sentiment that we lack the capacity to Get out the Vote  and the prospect  of having to build their own statewide field organization since none  exists is the biggest problem they see and  without  putting  to much of  a point on it  they look at the DPG  and they shake their head. 

Other than the  Senate race   and maybe  School Superintendant,  we need to be realistic 2014.   But  if we want to be a player in 2016  in the race for the White House  we have to get our act together as a state party to look  credible to  statewide candidates, High Dollar Donors,  The Clinton  Campaign and the  DNC.

The sad part about this is that  we are going to repeat this process in 2016 since  there is a strong chance that  Senator Isakson will not be running. 

We can talk about Unity and the need for  money until  we are blue in the face.  what we need is organizational  and operational  credibility  as soon as humanly possible. Sometimes I thing  we do more to suppress our own vote than the GOP  could  ever hope to achieve.