“Harper’s Team” reviewed: Lessons for the Green Party

In Conservative campaign manager, Tom Flanagans book, ‘Harpers Team’, there is some partisan dross, but there is considerable detail about how the Conservative machine was built. The actual mechanics of supporter outreach, fundraising, and message control should be an interesting read to anybody in Canada who professes an interest in Politics.

Trippi Review; And the winner WAS.. Old school dirty tricks

Joe Trippi saddled up the Dean for America campaign with a pretty exciting grassroots anti-machine. They went for a really wild ride, and confounded the sceptics. Finally, reality showed up, and chewed their asses big-time. The revolution was not televised, but the television counter-revolution was ultimately victorious.

The Green Party Revolution will not be Televised: Trippi review continued.

Joe Trippi’s book, “The Revolution will Not be Televised” has some useful lessons for the Green Party of Canada. Traditional machine politics is up against a number of significant dead ends. There are certain functions in political Fieldwork, and message/media work that simply cannot be done by the classic political machine. We need to take these lessons to heart, and draw our own conclusions from them.