DNC FAIL
The Democratic Party
Brendan –
As the Democratic Party steps up our groundbreaking efforts this election season, we’re launching our party’s first iPhone and iPad apps — allowing Democrats across the country to stay connected and get involved in new ways.
This first mobile app ever released by our party — and the first iPad app ever released by a political party or candidate — will help supporters call Congress, find local events, connect with other grassroots Democratic supporters, and have access to the latest photos, videos and political news, all at their fingertips.
The new apps are the next step in our constant effort to empower supporters with information they need, when they need it. Earlier this month we launched RaiseYourVote.com, a brand new site where anyone can find personalized information on how to register, and when and where to vote in their area.
These steps are designed to advance our core mission: making sure grassroots Democrats have every advantage to help elect candidates they’re passionate about and then to work side-by-side with those men and women, once they’re voted into office, to move our country forward.
These efforts will play a crucial role in our unprecedented Vote 2010 campaign to turn out the 15 million first-time 2008 voters and energize and empower our core Democratic voters to support the President’s allies in House, Senate and governor’s races. If you have an iPhone or an iPad, I hope you’ll download our app. Or if you know someone who does, please pass along this message.
You can download the iPhone or iPad app here:
http://my.democrats.org/iphone
Governor Tim Kaine
Chairman
That’s what i received in my email yesterday, as the Senate’s already weak jobs/unemployment extension bill went down to defeat. It will not be re-introduced: it’s a dead parrot.
This is on top of unpopular bank bailouts, a health insurance reform that will not stop skyrocketing premiums next year (so much for affordability), and an ongoing foreclosure crisis that the President’s HAMP program has not stopped. Recent college graduates can’t find jobs, and the older unemployed may never go back to work again.
And Tim Kaine and the Democratic Party think that an app for the iPad is going to bring out the voters in droves.
Tim: when you can’t find a job, how the FUCK are you supposed to pay for a motherfucking iPad?
Tim: for a lot of us, iPods and iPads are A LUXURY. I have an iPod: it’s a refurbished model my girlfriend bought me that’s about five years behind the latest model. I’d like to buy a new one, but guess what? MY MONEY GOES TO MY DEBTS AND OBLIGATIONS. By the time I’m done paying the utilities, the mortgage, the child support, car insurance, and the home equity loan, I have just enough to fill the tank with unleaded and feed myself. And if my student loan wasn’t in forebearance, I wouldn’t have any money at all left over.
Tim, I’m one of the lucky ones: I have a decent-paying job and an affordable house, but there’s no way I can afford a frivolous luxury like an iPad to play your silly little app. I’m not a fucking child with nothing else to do but check my iPad for updates from Democrats, neither are most of the working adults I know, and neither are the unemployed.
Tim, this is fucking serious:
Thompson pointed to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report stating that “without the extended Medicaid funding, Pennsylvania plans to cut funding for domestic violence prevention in half, eliminate all state funds for addressing substance abuse and homelessness, cut funding for child welfare by one-quarter, and cut payments to private hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors across the state — among other steps.” But Pennsylvania is not the only state that will have to take dramatic steps if Congress doesn’t act.”
…and you want me to download an iPod app? Tim in my state they’re going to “eliminate all state funds for homelessness” as people are laid off or don’t have unemployment. The official rate of unemployment, nationally, is 9.7%. Unofficially, it’s probably closer to 15-20%. In PA, the unemployment rate is 8.7%. When those people don’t have jobs or don’t have income, what happens when they can’t pay their rent or mortgage? Where do they go if there is no funding?
Gonna be a lot more visible homeless people on the streets, more crime, more addiction, and you want me to download a fucking iPod application.
I have a better idea: start kicking Republican ass. Stop playing this stupid-ass fake bipartisan game. Crack Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman over the head with a frying pan and make it clear that there are consequences for siding with the GOP.
Maybe you don’t see it, because the Senate is a millionaires club and both parties are run by wealthy elites, but it’s the party in power that gets blamed when shit goes wrong.
I don’t care how many first-time voters you mobilized in 2008, those people are not going to be motivated when they don’t have jobs and homes.
Tim, you and the Democratic Party need to wake the fuck up.
