Posted on 03/27/2011 11:21:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
We reported on Thursday of a schism between the progressive wing of the Coffee Party and its leadership. Launched with high hopes last year and seen by some as a progressive answer to Tea Party, the party has instead been an example of the failure to counter the power and energy of the tea party movement -- and its own board members are portraying it as an organizational disaster.
This week, the organization also announced the dissolution of the interim board this week, and three board members lashed out against the two cofounders in response.
"We are writing to you because it is our belief that much can be learned from the experience of the Interim Board, and the dynamics on the Board which we believe seriously impeded our process. We would like to identify some issues which, from our point of view, have become problems within the Coffee Party, and which, if not corrected, will hinder its success," wrote ousted board members Bahiya Cabral-Johnson, Teri Torres-Hart and Sabina Virgo in an open letter.
Painting a general picture of organizational chaos, they pointed to a lack of civility in the organization, a lack of democracy and a lack of consultation.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
They have a board and dissolved one. Grass roots w/a board. MMMmmmmkay.
Why do liberals need any new group when they have the unions?
Amazing how much space Politico devoted to the dissolution of this irrelevant, non-existent, unknown, non-entity...
oh yeah, this was Politico...
That's the problem, confusion with too many hyphenated names for leaders.
Quite humorous, in a Titanic sort of way.
The definition of a progressive. What went wrong?
A lack of civility, democracy, and consultation? Aren’t they just following the example of their president? Seems to me that he has been a stellar example of all three.
These left-side answers to REAL Conservative movements and programs fail because they are FAKE.
They were never real, just as the lipstick wears off a pg.
pg=pig
How odd. It's the same problems that plague the democrat party and its followers.
This reminds me of the opening titles to The Holy Grail: All those responsible for sacking the previous group have just been sacked.
This is hilarious.
But the tea party itself is splintering.
Did they fail to get some Soros funding?
LOL!
A tempest in a teap.., uh, I mean coffee pot.
Huh?
The Tea Party is a philosophy, not a political party.
Political parties can splinter, philosophies cannot.
I consider myself a member of that philosophy, and the notion of leaders (delusional or not) is antithecal both to the spirit and the effectiveness of the truly "grassroots" nature of the continuing movement.
Countering that with just another Soros-funded attack by the "progressive/commuist/radical left is like trying to play "King Canute."
The day I start getting junk mail from the Tea Party is the day I disassociate myself from it. Wait. I just gave the insane left an effective strategy...
...never mind...
Awww. Finding out the hard way that flowers don’t spring from astroturf, no matter how much manure you pour on it.
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