www.dfalink.com/lubbock

www.dfalink.com/lubbock

That's our new organizational home as we transition away from meetup.com. If you have not done so already, please take a minute to create an account there and join our group!

www.dfalink.com/lubbock

DemocracyFest 2006

Looks like the next DemocracyFest will be in either California or Florida. I don't know if this is in addition to one in Austin or in place of one in Austin. Maybe the event has gotten too big for Austin, who knows.

Anyway, check out details and voting between the two proposed locations if you're interested!

Radnofsky gaining in polls

Looks like soon-to-be-senator Radnofsky has made a dent in Hutchison's approval rating. This is really impressive given how early it is in the campaign season. It's even more impressive when you break it down demographically (left as an exercise to the link-following reader).

The fundraiser for her last Friday was terrific! As usual, she lit up the room with her speaking and answered all questions simply and directly. And, as usual, she blogged about it.

What a great candidate!

The feedback call

I just finished a delightful 30-minute phone conversation with my contact at the national DFA. I passed on all of our group's feedback from the meeting on the 4th as well as the feedback from the blog comments.

One good suggestion that came from passing on Johnnie's "DFA Red State Caravan" idea was for us to call up Jim Hightower or Molly Ivins and get them up to Lubbock for a speaking gig sponsored by our local group. I say we give this idea some serious thought.

I am still trying to get a meeting set up with Neugebauer's staff about the Downing Street Memo. I know we anticipated having our meeting today, and I apologize for the delay in setting this up. I am pushing now for a meeting at the end of next week.

September's meetup agenda looks absolutely wonderful for our group.

The feedback post

This is the space for all Lubbock DFA members to give me feedback to pass on to the national organization. Broadly speaking, feedback is in three categories:

1) How well is the organization run at the national level? (If you have feedback about how we are doing things locally, that's cool too.)

2) What issues would you like the national DFA to push? What's most important to you?

3) What candidates (at any level -- local, state, or national) do you think the national DFA should support?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Lubbock, TX - most conservative city

A friend living in San Francisco sent me an article about the most liberal and most conservative cities in the U.S. Lubbock, TX and Provo, UT are the top two conservative cities.

We got our work cut out for us, don't we?