Keeping It Simple

There are two approaches to running a campaign, putting your emphasis on acquiring money or getting votes.  If you have read and/or have heard me say on numerous occasions that money don't win elections but that votes do.  Let's use this for an example: Say, if you had four trillion dollars, not one of those dollars will or can cast a vote. First of all they are not citizens of the United States; secondly they are not registered voters; thirdly, they have know means of physically voting and/or expressing their will to vote. 

There are two types of Power perceived and actual.  Perceived Power is held by those who are elected and/or appointed into office.  There Power is only transfered from the voters to them and it is only actual as long as they are elected.   this is what I call borrowed Power from their constituents.  The problem is that to insure that this Power is perceived to be actual Power instead of perceived Power, those in leadership must convince those of us, who lend our Power to them to fulfill our demands, that their perceived Power is actual Power.  They do this by trying to take control of the mechanism that house and disperse the actual power that is collected from the voters who possess the actual Power.  That mechanism is called the Party.  No one person are small group of people can control this mechanism because it is by nature a collaboration of many separate individuals, groups, organizations and counties that do not always think alike but think similarly enough that they have chosen to join together as one.  

As County Chairs you are in control of the largest single block of voters, which make you the holder of actual Power.  But the only way that you can control this actual power is that the voters in your County relinquish that Power to you.  That will only happen if they believe that you care about them.  There are County Chairs among us who are physically over large and small County's, but do not have actual Power because they are not addressing the needs of their constituents.  The sad thing about it is that they appear to not really care if they address these needs.  They appear to be caught up in the bright lights of that small group of perceived powerful leaders who seek to control the Party for their own wishes.  We lose campaigns because we can not insure that our constituents will come out to vote.  Think about it.   

As always, this is just my opinion and it does not make it right. 

Lee Walter Jenkins