I blame the goddamn California democratic party, and all the goddamn democrats in California who could not organize a goddamn trip to the bathroom.

I feel like I should be happy about the election of Obama, but I'm actually really pissed.

I'm pissed about goddamn Prop 8, and I'm pissed about the goddamn district 2 congressional race.

I'm EXTRA pissed that California went for Obama not due to any superior organization on the part of the state party, but DESPITE the state party.

This is the same goddamn party who puts up goddamn nerds with NO charisma against Republican movie stars.

There's a complacency in this state that makes me ANGRY. Yeah, we go blue every four years, but this is also a state where people get KILLED for being gay and being homeless... Synagogues get bombed, crosses get burned... and somehow everyone carries on with this MYTH that California is SO liberal.

Hey people in the Bay Area and LA, instead of being self-congratulatory that YOU live in a liberal area, think for a minute. Think about why prop 8 passed. And NO, it's not those black folks down in Compton or over in Oakland. It's all the folks in Redding and Fresno and Bakersfield and Lancaster. And it's not just the fundies, it's the demoralized democrats who live in these places who are not connected with other democrats and feel like their votes don't matter.

Here in Redding we did not see a SINGLE no on 8 sign, billboard, commercial, or bumper-sticker.

Our congressional candidate, Jeff Morris, who was running against Wally Herger, went down to flaming defeat in a 60-40 blowout. He was outspent by 20 to 1!!!!!!! Herger raised 880,000, and Morris raised 43,000. Morris didn't get a DIME of state or national money.

And you know what the stupid state party chair said? "If we had known Morris would do so well, we would have provided some funding."

And as far as the presidential race went, WE WENT DOWN TO THE LOCAL DEMOCRATIC OFFICE TO GET A DAMN OBAMA SIGN FOR THE DAMN YARD, AND WE WERE TOLD THAT NONE HAD BEEN ORDERED, AND IF WE WANTED ONE WE NEEDED TO GO TO NEVADA.

We put our names down to volunteer for Obama and Morris, and WE WERE NEVER CALLED.

Why does the state party seem to think they can run a 20-county (out of 58) campaign every four years and get away with it? Because they've been getting away with delivering California's 55 electoral votes for the democratic presidential candidate for DECADES, and they don't seem to realize the magnitude of the problem.

And back to the folks in the Bay Area and LA: you have the same problems the state party has. You think you're organized because you have critical mass, but you're totally not organized. All those people in San Francisco who didn't bother to vote? Yeah, that's symptomatic of what I'm saying.

Trying to ramp up a democratic network from scratch every couple years is a FAILURE. It's a failed way to win elections.

The republicans have PERMANENT networks of fundraising and organization. We have SHIT.

Yeah, there's a big fucking list somewhere of people who are willing to throw down some fat cash, but fat cash is NO substitute for a real network of people to campaign for issues like gay marriage, or candidates, or anything else.

In summary, we have a LOT of work to do organizationally in this state.