"It's a Hollow Party"

SEIU President Andy Stern calls the Democratic Party "a party of stale ideas," expressing discontent that the activist base of the party will be in a weak bargaining position vis-a-vis the party elite after the election -- what if SEIU spent $65 million it's wasting on the John Kerry campaign on an initiative that would build up working-class bases of power independent of the Democratic Party? Read the rest at http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/its-hollow-party.html.