re: #155 Anymouse 🌹

The trickiest part is finding people willing to run. That takes local infrastructure which is sorely lacking in many places. (Good luck finding a Democratic office in Wyoming, for example.)

One thing the national party could do is help state and local parties build up their infrastructure. Another is find ways to set aside people running local parties who are warming seats. (My county party has two men as co-chairs, 88 and 89, who only seem to care about maintaining their chairmanships, not the county party, which is why I am the only elected Democrat here - and they won’t talk to me.)

If it comes to it, for such people the only choice might be a revolt of local Democrats to oust people warming seats for half-a-century and still running on ideas that are fifty years old. (We’re working on that here now.)

Absolutely. Recruiting is tough because as we know, it’s a busy job. And for our state legislatures, it’s even tougher because the pay at those jobs isn’t the incentive.