Palin Ignites Professional Community Organizer (PCO) Fury

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Hope And Change  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-04-08 02:31 PM
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Community Organizers Demands An Apology From Palin!
Community Organizers Fight Back
September 4, 2008 · 57 Comments
Organizers demand apology from Alaska governor, say “we’re working to clean up your mess!”

Community organizers across America, taken aback by a series of attacks from Republican leaders at the GOP convention in St. Paul, came together today to defend their work organizing Americans who have been left behind by unemployment, lack of health insurance and the national housing crisis. The organizers demanded an apology from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for her statement that community organizers have no “actual responsibilities” and launched a web site, http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com, to defend themselves against Republican attacks.

“Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan. “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.”

Though many people are unfamiliar with community organizing, the job is both straightforward and vital: community organizers work with families who are struggling–because of low wages, poor health coverage, unaffordable housing, and other community problems–so that collectively, they can fix those problems and make government respond to their day-to-day concerns. Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government.

Scorn for community organizers has been a prominent feature of this week’s Republican convention. On Wednesday, three Republican leaders mocked community organizers:


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http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6928677

Definition:(from an earlier post)

A professional community organizer (PCO) makes far more money than a doctor or lawyer. An effective PCO works with an elected official to obtain an appropriation of public funds. He then splits those funds with the elected official. It is the mother's milk of Chicago politics.

Expect to see this soon on an Escalade with 24" spinners:

nichomachus  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-04-08 02:46 PM
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5. Bumper Sticker, please
I'm a community organizer -- and I vote
Obama/Biden '08

 

[Red October]

Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government.

I'm sorry... the Compton swap-meet is that way.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hope And Change  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-04-08 02:31 PM
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Community Organizers Demands An Apology From Palin!

I recommend saying something like "Okay, I'm sorry you're community organizers."

[jukin]

Jukin has already been there and I believe my comment already scrubbed.  It's a free speech, liberally speaking, place.

[USA4ME]

I hear the term "community organizers" and Al Sharpton immediately comes to mind.

... they can fix those problems and make government respond to their day-to-day concerns. Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government.

IOW they help keep people dependant on gov't handouts for the rest of their lives, and by doing so guarantee they are sentenced to a life of poverty and viewing themselves as constant victims.  Great!!  We need more of them!!   

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[franksolich]

I dunno.

I make government respond to the day-to-day concerns of people not sophisticated enough to understand income taxes, most of them a minority group here, Texans.

As a community organizer, this community organizer's voting McCain-Palin.

[Lauri]

Hope And Change  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-04-08 02:31 PM
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Community Organizers Demands An Apology From Palin!

I recommend saying something like "Okay, I'm sorry you're community organizers."

 


seriously, THIS is what they want to focus on?? do they really want the GOP to go out and find the PCOs that Obama supossedly worked with and find out what he did in his "job" ..?

Obama's boss was found and he said Obama was "fine.. everybody liked him" ... and then what? what did he DO??? what did those communities gain from having Barry in them?

[InfamousAndy]

Just like I thought... Community organizer is not a real 'job'.  It, however, is what every DUmmie would LOVE to do.  Rant and random strangers about how bad and unfair your life is until they give you free stuff.  I am sorry, at most, 'Community Organizer' would be a volunteer position for people with too much free time.