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The Concord Project: Every Man A Paul Revere

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 7th, 2010 at 08:00 AM  | 

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A group of RedState diarists have gotten together and collaborated on a new project I think you need to pay attention to.

The Concord Project is a get out the vote website for ordinary Americans — normal people called to action or modern day Paul Reveres if you will.

We preach a lot about getting out the vote and local activism here at RedState, but frankly, I don’t have enough time myself, nor do a lot of others. Luckily for us, some of our enterprising readers are making it easy.

Go sign up right now. The elections are coming. Know how to motivate people to get out and vote.

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  • JadedByPolitics

    it is NOT enough to sit at home and scream at the TV or pound away at the keyboard WE MUST get out and hit the pavement and knock on doors, make phone calls either from home or at a campaign headquarters and chat with your neighbors, explain the dire straits WE are in and help the local campaigns. The unions will do this and WE The People MUST combat them and guess what? WE won’t get paid unless of course you count FREEDOM, LIBERTY and SMALL GOVERNMENT payments, I do!

  • JadedByPolitics

    it is NOT enough to sit at home and scream at the TV or pound away at the keyboard WE MUST get out and hit the pavement and knock on doors, make phone calls either from home or at a campaign headquarters and chat with your neighbors, explain the dire straits WE are in and help the local campaigns. The unions will do this and WE The People MUST combat them and guess what? WE won’t get paid unless of course you count FREEDOM, LIBERTY and SMALL GOVERNMENT payments, I do!

  • janis

    This is a terrific website with so many handy and informative features that it makes GOTV a snap to work on. For anyone who wants info on their state’s voting regulations, times for early voting, absentee balloting, etc, it’s all there.

    And I would like to thank the tremendously dedicated people who created the Concord Project. Just like the soldiers who fight in our names, these are the people who are also fighting for our freedom.

  • smagar

    From their website:

    The Concord Project is a non-profit, non-partisan voter education and outreach organization.

    Ummmm…non-partisan?

    Then, there’s this:

    What is the Concord Project The Concord Project is a tool for liberty-minded individuals and groups who care about America and our Constitution to learn basic Get Out The Vote (GOTV) techniques.

    As importantly, with its open platform, the Concord Project enables individuals and groups to coordinate and collaborate their GOTV efforts, giving activists an open platform to contribute and work together on Getting Out The Vote in November and beyond.

    With labor unions and other left-wing organizations spending hundreds of millions of dollars and coordinating activities to influence political outcomes at the ballot box, the Concord Project is Prometheus? flame, giving hard-working Americans the knowledge, platform, and tools to take back America through GOTV education and open-source coordination.

    My local Blue Dog Democrat, Gabrielle Giffords, is all for standing up against left-wing organizations and organized labor…in her campaign commercials, that is. (The labor organizations will wink and knod; they know how to keep up appearances). Also, she’s all for hard-working Americans taking back their country…from Wall Street. I’ll bet many Blue Dog Democrats will be, too. At least through the election, that is.

    Isn’t the Concord Project’s message a bit…ahem, convoluted?

    Neverthless, I’ve signed up. If y’all think this is a good horse to ride, then let’s go. I just hope this horse goes the same place (R victories in November) that we all want to go.

  • smagar

    While the Concord Project is non-partisan, it’s definately not big labor union-friendly. So,seeing as the typical Democrats and liberals are in the pocket of Big Labor, that means they’ll shy away from the Concord Project, leaving it a mainly conservative GOTV operation?

  • acat

    Look at how many so-called Blue Dogs voted for Obama programs, including big-labor payoffs like the GM and Chrysler hustles.

    Look at how many so-called Blue Dogs voted for Pelosi’s choices for leadership in the House.

    Look at Blue Dog poster-boy Stupak.

    No, Virginia. There are no blue dogs.

    Mew

  • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

    with an IRS that invents these weird little things like C4s, C3s, C2s and whatever else they can conjure up in their pea brains (now that will get me an audit), the Concord Project has to play in the guidelines set.

    It is, as it says, a site to provide educational materials and a platform for people to coordinate. What it is NOT is the union/OFA top-down structure.

  • janis

    Clear explanation and no further need to defend a wonderful project that has taken days and days to put together with dedication and purpose.

  • itrytobenice

    in just exactly the same manner and degree the unions are nonpartisan.

    Just on the other side.

  • Achance

    and other leftist-front non-profits are. The standard ploy since Colorado has been to file FEC or state election law complaints against any significant contributors to conservative/Republican candidates and causes. And if the Democrats control the state, you’re guilty in the administrative and trial court levels. If you are right and have the money, you get it thrown out on appeal and maybe even get some costs and fees, but the “Get Your Reputation Back” window is closed.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    trying to make a living. I hope my columns inspire others to do the other necessary things that I haven’t the time to do, much like many of them don’t write columns!

    smile

  • betsyred

    This time last week, Tom Tancredo was the spoiler in the governor’s race in Colorado. Tea party and grassroots favorite, Dan Maes (R) won the caucuses and the primary in August. He was running head to head with Denver Mayor Hickenlooper (D) . Tancredo quickly joined the Constitutionalist Party this summer and got himself into the race. By the end of the week, there was a drumbeat to force Maes out of the race so that he could be replaced on the GOP side by someone hand picked by the Colorado Republican elite; probably a person that lost the Senate to another guy that happened to be the people’s choice, as well. Missteps early in Maes’ campaign, along with the probability of an embellishment regarding duties as a police officer landed Maes squarely in the center of heated debate, giving Hickenlooper plenty of time to make TV commericals of himself in the shower and being a true steward of taxpayer money by using both sides of copy paper.

    Tancredo had said that if Maes dropped out, he would, as well. At week’s end, Tancredo was running to microphones saying he was not dropping out, no matter what.

    Where does all this leave the good folks of Colorado? Republicans and Independents have always lined up behind Maes, much to the chagrin of the Establishment. Calls for him to get out have come from across the political spectrum and they have basically bolstered support for Maes. He’s a nice guy; a great family man; comes from a very humble and unprivileged background. He has a successful track record in business. He has some very sound conservative ideas for the state.

    A lawsuit was filed in Denver today by two political activists that claim Tancredo is not a legitimate candidate because he only recently joined this third party he’s running under. (According to the Denver Post, Tancredo has thus far been unavailable for comment since the suit was filed and made public.)

    The waters continue to get more murky. Meanwhile, conservatives in Colorado are worried. The GOP Elite class doesn’t like or trust their candidate. Tancredo will, indeed, spoil the race if he isn’t the one that’s ‘encouraged’ to get out.

    The ballots for Nov. are at the printers, ready to go. Colorado needs a Paul Revere. The choices are clear and few. Will pundits, journalists, and the political hierarchy in the GOP cast votes for Hickenlooper literally, or will they simply give him the keys to the Governor’s Mansion by not voting at all? Does the GOP Governor’s Assoc. want to continue to look at the empty chair for Colorado that sits around their table?

    As governor, Hickenlooper, at the behest of Barack Obama, will preside over higher taxes (“fees” as they call them in Colorado). The state will see more people leave because there are no longer jobs enough to sustain a family. The Dem’s have chased so many energy jobs out of the state it’s incredible. The sanctuary city status of Denver will spread across the state. Ken Salazar wants to take water rights, every body of water down to mud puddles, and seal them for federal govt. use and discretion.

    To all those in positions of influence, remember that if Dan Maes is not elected as Colorado’s governor, missteps, mistakes and human errors included, the momentum State Republicans have right now going into Nov. will be stifled. There is a team of state legislators that are working hard behind the scenes preparing an agressive conservative agenda to take Colorado back from the brink. They need a Republican governor they can work with and they need support for their efforts. That support at this time equates to 9-1-1 help in the form of endorsements and money for Dan Maes.

    The race has fallen off the radar since Maes declared he would not withdraw. Are we walking the talk here about taking back America and sounding the alarm for the American voter to wake up and get engaged, or are we simply playing politics as usual? Kinda hard to tell at this point, at least in the Centennial State.