Draft Gore 2008 PAC

Like many other Draft Gore projects, we're shutting down. I'll do our wicked overdue filings with the FEC and then we'll be done with the '08 cycle.

It has been very educational, doing three months of prep-work in Iowa and getting our heads around the failure of upper-Mississippi water policy, of center and western farm and water policy, and western coal, oil shale, and water policy, all with the sliding average snow pack, precipitation, and soil moisture diminishing. Our months in Nevada looking at how to do caucus in Las Vegas and balance-of-state (everywhere else), so politically like our home state, Maine, and our months in and out of Metro and Rural "middle America", from North Carolina to the Central Valley have given us more insight than any prior campaign, even as paid staff for Clinton-Gore and Gore-Lieberman running an entire state's field operations.

There are good people working in electoral politics for the other party, people who "get" what we've gotten, or had it before we even suspected it existed, a sense of responsibility for the people briefly met at camps or stores, so simply glimpsed in candid moments of their daily lives, a sense that electoral politics is more than just getting the numbers or crafting the message. It is more important than that, more real than that. There are good people doing the same work in the campaigns that are taking place within our party too. Unfortunately, for both parties, it takes time to turn the corner, to arrive in the United States.

Well, enough of naval and lint.

For the Draft Gore 2008 PAC founders and workers -- Dwight, MB, Susie, Mart, ...
Eric Brunner-Williams
Final Director, DG08 PAC