Lauren Ashcraft  🌹Compte certifié

I have canvassed first myself & others and I ran as an independent and as a Democrat In #AZ05 and #AZ09 there are quite a few Is and there are certainly plenty of people who hate the parties but just to get on the ballot as an I in either you need several times more signatures…

I know. That’s how the parties rig it. But describe the difference between canvassing as I and D when you knock on a door.

The difference depends on who you’re targeting. A random house is certainly on average *much* more positive when you say you’re an independent than a democrat, but if you go to likely voters then the opposite is true and when it comes down to risking the R winning, they tend D

For the record though, if I had the time and resources to run as an I in #az05, I’d do that because it’d turn a solid R district into a three way race between @RepAndyBiggsAZ, @joangreeneaz, and myself and odds are that either I’d win or she would

Democrats are more partisan than Republicans... Which I always find hilarious.

We have two parties neither of which actually serves the people. If the goal is to change our government, you can only do that from outside those parties. If the goal is to change the party, you do that by taking official positions inside the party, not inside the government.

Some change certainly needs to come from outside, but it’s manifestly false that real change *has* to come from outside of the parties. @AOC and @BernieSanders, @ladawn, @DeedraNotion, @BWestbrookAZ8 et al have done a pretty damned good of changing things from within

I think that last point remains to be proven.