"Organizing for America"...
Saturday, 11 April 2009 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daSo, I'm on Barack Obama's volunteer email list; and I'm getting a bit tired of their appeals for donations. If you visit www.barackobama.com and look around a bit, you'll see what I mean by appeals.
Now, I'm sensitive to the fact that Obama built his campaign on grassroots work, and continuing the grassroots work would presumably require funding through means other than the federal coffers. But I think they're making a critical error by not clearly linking the requests with a clear idea of what this money is going for, on an email-by-email basis. Or, proposing how people can organize for political change without dropping $25 to OFA, now part of the Democratic National Committee, which is starting to feel like a cash-grab.
And as well, for an administration built on openness and change, barackobama.com seems to miss the boat; you can't find any info about OFA cash-flow or budgets. And according to The Washington Post, their budget is totally merged with the DNCs, so there might not be any public information about OFC finances at all.
For such an image-conscious administration, I wonder what the story is here, other than losing track of how things change when you actually win a campaign?...
Now, I'm sensitive to the fact that Obama built his campaign on grassroots work, and continuing the grassroots work would presumably require funding through means other than the federal coffers. But I think they're making a critical error by not clearly linking the requests with a clear idea of what this money is going for, on an email-by-email basis. Or, proposing how people can organize for political change without dropping $25 to OFA, now part of the Democratic National Committee, which is starting to feel like a cash-grab.
And as well, for an administration built on openness and change, barackobama.com seems to miss the boat; you can't find any info about OFA cash-flow or budgets. And according to The Washington Post, their budget is totally merged with the DNCs, so there might not be any public information about OFC finances at all.
For such an image-conscious administration, I wonder what the story is here, other than losing track of how things change when you actually win a campaign?...
