After the election

11/06/2006

Dear Brian, Donna, Andy, members of the SCC and the DFL,

It is critically important to heed John Dean’s warning (c-span talk about his book “Conservatives Without Conscience” aired 9/5/06, re-broadcast this morning) about what the right-wing authoritarians are going to do when they lose some seats in this election. They are nothing if not persistent, and when they lose, they re-double their efforts to win the next time.

The “Conservative Movement” which includes Young America’s Foundation that works on college campuses across America has Tim Pawlenty as one of its supporters. In fact, check this out: http://www.minnesotaacademy.com/

With this in mind, and after a much deserved rest and party following the next SCC meeting on Dec. 16th, I want to know what we, the DFL, can do to begin countering YAF and the Conservative Movement in Minnesota. This is NOT an intellectual exercise. This is about developing real strategies and tactics and a serious ground game to counter the authoritarianism at work in the Republican Party and in the religious right that is leading us down the path to totalitarianism that John Dean wrote about in his book.

I hope to hear some thoughts once this election cycle is over.

Margie A. Hoyt Watonwan Co. A/C