We Watch.
The Ohio Democratic Party needs work. They have a new leader in Chris Redfern and in all fairness he needs time to make necessary changes. The issues we will be concerned with are as follows:
Handicapped Access.
Why aren't the offices of the ODP accessible to the handicapped? There is an elevator that could be used but isn't because it's broken. Fix it.
Outreach.
As far as we know there aren't any meetings or organizational efforts at reaching out to the gay community, the faith community or the African-American community. This needs to change and fast. You're not exactly heading in the right direction when Stephanie Tubbs-Jones gets booed at the ODP Executive Meeting. Those that were part of that fiasco need a good boot in the huevos.
Dormancy.
After the 2004 election it seems that the ODP went to sleep. Did anything of substance get done in that period? Anyone? The ODP was closed the last two weeks of December. Is that the way we should be doing business? Do you get an actual human when you call the ODP offices or just a phone maze? Is there anyone there at all? In the past if you got through you'd get the standard mantra that so-and-so was in a "meeting" even though they might be out back having a smoke. Does anybody care about the quality of work that's getting done? Who is manning the phones? Who replies to your e-mails? We will be calling ODP headquarters on a regular basis to see if our calls are cheerily and promptly answered. We will be dropping by the offices to see if people are at work or if anyone cares to get to work on time.
There you have some of the issues we will be watching out for. We'll give the new leadership some time to address the more nagging and institutionalized problems. But after a certain time we will expect results and if we're displeased we will start letter writing campaigns to the ODP's biggest donors telling them NOT to give their money to such an ineffectual and indifferent organization. Time to make some changes Democrats. We watch.
Handicapped Access.
Why aren't the offices of the ODP accessible to the handicapped? There is an elevator that could be used but isn't because it's broken. Fix it.
Outreach.
As far as we know there aren't any meetings or organizational efforts at reaching out to the gay community, the faith community or the African-American community. This needs to change and fast. You're not exactly heading in the right direction when Stephanie Tubbs-Jones gets booed at the ODP Executive Meeting. Those that were part of that fiasco need a good boot in the huevos.
Dormancy.
After the 2004 election it seems that the ODP went to sleep. Did anything of substance get done in that period? Anyone? The ODP was closed the last two weeks of December. Is that the way we should be doing business? Do you get an actual human when you call the ODP offices or just a phone maze? Is there anyone there at all? In the past if you got through you'd get the standard mantra that so-and-so was in a "meeting" even though they might be out back having a smoke. Does anybody care about the quality of work that's getting done? Who is manning the phones? Who replies to your e-mails? We will be calling ODP headquarters on a regular basis to see if our calls are cheerily and promptly answered. We will be dropping by the offices to see if people are at work or if anyone cares to get to work on time.
There you have some of the issues we will be watching out for. We'll give the new leadership some time to address the more nagging and institutionalized problems. But after a certain time we will expect results and if we're displeased we will start letter writing campaigns to the ODP's biggest donors telling them NOT to give their money to such an ineffectual and indifferent organization. Time to make some changes Democrats. We watch.
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