[…] to the state convention and approve a platform. As you may recall, the first convention ended in a disastrous clusterfuck. But, we have high hopes that Saturday’s event slated for the Thomas & Mack will be much […]

“Bryan” is an apology THAT so very important to you - are you kidding me?

O.K. here goes…

Dear EVERYONE,

As an active member of the Nevada State Democratic Party and Clark County Democratic Party Central Committee, I hereby collective apologize for all of us who have volunteered our time and given thousands of dollars over the years (often, in small donations because we’re just as broke as the next person) and OBVIOUSLY haven’t done enough, YET.

Now, does that make you feel better?

Great! Now, on behalf of the Veterans and Military Families Community, especially those that have been killed and maimed and had their families torn apart and their lives ruined forever - I’d like to request an apology from all of you that screwed up and let the rotten Republicans send them into an unnecessary, immoral, unethical, illegal and Unjust War in Iraq!

Better yet, skip the apology…just write a letter, and send an e-mail, and make a note not “Don’t Forget The Vet” and get the Veteran’s Administration fully funded - something you civilians promised and have never, ever, YET gotten done!

I have yet to hear a single person simply apologize. Yes, there were circumstances beyond people’s control. And it’s exciting to see so many people involved in the process, which brings an entirely new set of problems. But from what we have all heard and read from media accounts and from friends who were there, the party was completely ill-prepared for the convention.

It isn’t hard. Mr. Hunt — you can read these words and pass them out to your team: “You know what? We screwed up. A lot of people worked really hard, and had the best of intentions, but we failed. We could really use some help to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Please give us a call to volunteer, and we will make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

The general is AN ELECTION. This was a CONVENTION. If every delegate was required to PREregister everything would have gone smoothly. However, the thought that 1300 precincts in southern Nevada, many with horrible to NO paperwork processing from the caucuses, could have been flawlessly processed in 4 weeks was plainly overly expectant. At least in the General Election we have the leisurely option of early voting.

Steve, in the military we would only private refer to such an event as you’ve described it - and you’re right (and Hunt and everyone agrees with the obvious point you made). The more civil explanation would have been buried in a military acronym FUBAR!

In truth, there’s plenty of blame to go around - but, the buck does stop with the current County Chair and I know he’s a stand-up guy.

Now, can we get to the rest of the story? You know with some good backround work? Like how the previous NSDP Chair, Tom Collins and previous Clark County Chair, Liz Foley left us in debt with a demoralized and decimated volunteer force of almost NOBODY to help out?

How about a little credit for Hunt being able to re-inspire about 40 of our best and brightest activists to step back up and get about 100 of our most dependable volunteers to re-engage?

Maybe a line or two on how Hunt and Stanley put together the best Jefferson / Jackson Dinner and raised more money than ever in the history of Nevada?

How about pointing out how it was the corrupt Caucus on January 19th and the NSDP that dumps a lot of unresolved problems on the Counties to sort out?

I mean come on Steve, if we’re going to start beating people up publicly, and throwing some on the rack and others to the wolves and crucifying some of the best and brightest we’ve ever had step up and volunteer - let’s spread the love and pain fairly shall we?

How about how BOTH campaigns tried to out fox one another and ended up undermining the entire process and each other! Now, there’s a story of two dynamic campaigns, in near desperation, depleting the democratic process!

We’re Democrats with a big “D” as in DYSFUNCTIONAL - but, we do put the “fun” in it don’t we?

Everyone called it a clusterfuck, up to and including the people who organized the clusterfuck.
I think this was a dry run for the general.