on the work I did with Kansas Equality. We tracked it all. We went out in the blistering heat. We placed people to help with the work. We saw a softening after Dean did this. We had already managed to open chapters (Gay rights organization) in the deep country of Western Kansas and were getting some things done with that. I know what was said by the people in those deep red states and I did feel and see a small change. We, members of our Coalition, moved the party here to the left a bit. I worked hard but not nearly as hard as so many of them did. So, that is what I saw and felt during that time. I thought we had gotten passed all the real hard stuff then...that fucking Brownback got it. Good old Christian, farmer family, educated good old boy (he was not a good old boy, I knew him too well to say that without a qualifier).
I agree with you what you said. It is hard but I do not thing the Dems have ever really tried. It is hard enough to get things done in the counties that are already blue or close to blue but a little more money, thank you Dr. Dean, and a lot more enthusiasm and work would help bring it closer (it did then) and people like "Doc" Marshall would not have such an easy time of it. We need years of support at this point and really, it is easier to yell at us and call us names and say there are better places for the effort will keep us, and other places like this, in this way.
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