lights, camera…activist!
Liberal activist groups have undertaken a top-down effort to disrupt district events, manufacture hostile encounters, and generate earned media coverage centered around their interactions. Some of the groups involved have begun to step out of the shadows.
It’s simply about creating a raucous environment that would lead one to believe their far-left agenda is broadly popular. This is a vocal minority that wants to drown out the millions of voices who’ve spoken out against Obamacare’s failure to offer affordable choices.
“Democrats are tapping a well-organized network of progressive groups to try and derail Republican efforts to engage with members of their community. Obamacare is imploding in front of our eyes and the activist left is clinging to the failed policies that caused the healthcare mess in the first place.” – Jesse Hunt, NRCC National Press Secretary
Via CNN:
The Media Objective
· “Get it on camera: And there’s one more important component MoveOn is telling its members via emails and texts, he said: capture it all on Facebook Live.”
· “‘If there’s no recording, if there’s no pictures, if there’s nothing in the press, then it’s almost like it didn’t happen from the perspective of everybody who wasn’t there at the time,’ Traldi said.”
The Groups
· “That’s what Organizing for Action — the group that evolved from President Barack Obama’s political campaign structure — is teaching 25,000 liberal activists in a series of six webinars and calls ahead of next week’s congressional recess. Another webinar is set for Thursday night, where the organization plans to train thousands more.”
· “MoveOn.org has launched a website — ResistanceRecess.com — that’s serving as a hub for events, from congressional town halls (based on former Hillary Clinton field organizer Jimmy Dahman’s TownHallProject.com) to events organized by local chapters of the Indivisible movement.”
· “The liberal blog DailyKos.com is directing members to the site, Wikler said. And MoveOn is working with Protect Our Care, a coalition of pro-Obamacare groups that is directing doctors, nurses, patients and others affected by the Affordable Care Act to events to speak to their personal experiences.”
Via Politico:
· “Dubbed “Indivisible,” the group launched as a way for Padilla and a handful of fellow ex-Democratic aides to channel their post-election heartbreak into a manual for quashing President Donald Trump’s agenda. They drafted a 26-page protest guide for activists, full of pointers on how to bird dog their members of Congress in the language of Capitol inside.”