Transcript Objective 2(26b): Describe the organization and functions

Objective 2(26b): Describe the
organization and functions of
American Political parties at the
local, state, and national level.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is one of two major
contemporary political parties in the
United States, along with the Republican
Party. It is the oldest political party in
continuous operation in the United States
and it is one of the oldest parties in the
world.
•The Democratic Party has several
organizations within its party. There’s the:
DGA: The Democratic Governors’
Association
The DGA provides political and strategic
assistance to gubernatorial campaigns
The DGA plays an integral role in
developing positions on key state and
federal issues that affect the states
through the governors’ policy forum
series.
DSCC: the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee purpose is to
elect more Democrats to the United
States Senate.
The DSCC’s Job is to organize candidate’s
recruitment to providing campaign funds
for tight races.
DCCC: The Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee serves as the
official national Democratic campaign
committee charged with recruiting,
assisting, funding, and electing Democrats
to the U. S. House of Representatives.
They provide services ranging from
designing and helping execute field
operations, to polling, creating radio and
television commercials, fundraising,
communications, and management
consulting
DLCC: The Democratic Legislative Campaign
Committee provides strategic services and
financial assistance to Democratic leaders
and candidates at the state legislative level.
They provide services ranging from
designing and helping execute field
operations, to polling, creating radio and
television commercials, fundraising,
communications, and management
consulting
DLCC: The Democratic Legislative Campaign
Committee provides strategic services and
financial assistance to Democratic leaders
and candidates at the state legislative level.
AC: The Accreditations Committee is there to
review requests by forming sate parties and
caucuses for accreditation by the GPUS.
Members and state parties or caucuses, or
between state parties or caucuses which are
not alleged to involve the GPUS' accreditation
requirements are handled by the Dispute
Resolution Committee (DRC).
BRPP) Bylaws, Rules, Policies & Procedures
(CCC): The Coordinated Campaign Committee is a
standing committee of the USGP that cooperates
with state and local chapters in the support of
federal, state, and local Green Party electoral
campaigns.
The CCC provides material support to campaigns
when possible.
Help train chapters in running successful
campaigns (from finding the right candidate to
getting people.
Keep various campaigns in communication with
each other, so that resources and wisdom can be.
PCSC: The Presidential Campaign Support in the
coordination of communication with Green
Presidential.
It will coordinate between accredited state
parties and caucuses, national committees, GPUS
and the nominee to ensure that there is both
good communication and working relationship
between party and candidate.
THE REFORM PARTY
The Reform Party
The Reform Party of the United States
of America is a political party in the
United States, founded by Ross Perot
in 1995 who said Americans were
disillusioned with the state of politics.
The Reform Party platform includes the following:
Maintaining a balanced budget, ensured by
passing a Balanced Budget Amendment and
changing budgeting practices, and paying down
the federal debt.
Campaign finance reform, including strict limits
on campaign contributions and the outlawing of
the Political action committee
Enforcement of existing immigration laws
•Opposition to free trade agreements like
the North American Free Trade
Agreement and CAFTA, and a call for
withdrawal from the World Trade
Organization.
Term limits on U.S. Representatives and
Senators.
Direct election of the United States
President by popular vote.
THE LIBERTARIAN
The Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party is a United States political
party founded on December 11, 1971. More
than 200,000 voters are registered with the
party, making it one of the largest of America's
alternative political parties. Hundreds of
Libertarian candidates have been elected or
appointed to public office, and thousands have
run for office under the Libertarian banner, Also
known as the third biggest party.
The Libertarian party’s Platform is:
Adoption of laissez-faire principles which would
reduce the state's role in economic government. This
would include, among other things, markedly
reduced taxation, privatization of Social Security and
welfare (for individuals, as well as elimination of
"corporate welfare"), markedly reduced regulation
of business, rollbacks of labor regulations, and
reduction of government interference in foreign
trade.
Protection of property rights.
Minimal government bureaucracy. The
Libertarian Party states that the government's
responsibilities should be limited to the
protection of individual rights from the
initiation of force and fraud. Civil libertarianism:
Support for the protection of civil liberties,
including the right to privacy, freedom of
speech, freedom of association, and sexual
freedom.
Opposition to civil rights laws that
regulate the private sector, such as
affirmative action and non-discrimination
laws.
Support for the unrestricted right to the
means of self-defense (such as gun rights,
the right to carry mace or pepper spray,
etc).
Opposition to the censoring and the
engineering of foreign radio pathways.
Abolition of laws against "victimless
crimes" (such as prostitution, driving
without a seatbelt, use of controlled
substances, fraternization, etc.).
Opposition to regulations on how
businesses should run themselves
(e.g., smoking bans)
A foreign policy of free trade and noninterventionism.
The Republican Party
The Republican Party is one of the two
major contemporary political parties in
the United States, along with the
Democratic Party. It is often called the
Grand Old Party or the GOP. Founded in
Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854 by anti-slavery
expansion activists and modernizers, the
Republican Party quickly surpassed the
Whig Party as the principal opposition to
the Democratic Party.
It first came to power in 1860 with
the election of Abraham Lincoln to the
presidency and presided over the
American Civil War and
Reconstruction. Today, the party
supports a conservative and/or
center-right platform, with further
foundations in supply-side fiscal
policies and social conservatism.
The Republican Party is currently the
second largest party with 55 million
registered voters as of 2004,
encompassing roughly one-third of the
electorate. There have been nineteen
Republican Presidents. Republicans
currently fill a minority of seats in both
the United States Senate and the House of
Representatives, hold a minority of state
governorships, and control a minority of
state legislatures.
The communist Party
The Communist Party of the United States
of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist
political party in the United States.
For first half of the 20th century the
communist party it was the largest and
most widely influential communist party
in the country, and played a prominent
role in the U.S. labor movement from the
1920s through the 1940s
, founding most of the country's major industrial
unions (which would later implement the Smith Act)
and pursuing intense anti-racist activity in
workplaces and city communities throughout this
first part of its existence. Simultaneously the CPUSA
survived the Palmer Raids, the first Red Scare, and
many similar attempts at suppression of communist
activity by the Government of the United States
through the end of World War II. By August 1919,
only months after its founding, the CPUSA had
60,000 members, including anarchists and other
radical leftists, while the more moderate Socialist
Party of America had only 40,000.
The Socialist Party Years active 1901 –
1973
The Socialist Party of America (SPA or SP)
was a democratic socialist political party
in the United States, formed in 1901 by a
merger between the three-year-old Social
Democratic Party of America and
disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor
Party which had split from the main
organization in 1899.
In the first decades of the 20th Century, it
drew significant support from many
different groups, including trade
unionists, progressive social reformers,
populist farmers, and immigrant
communities. Its presidential candidate,
Eugene V. Debs, won over 900,000 votes
in 1912 and 1920, while the party also
elected two Congressmen and numerous
state legislators and mayors
The party's staunch opposition to
American involvement in World War I,
although welcomed by many, also led to
prominent defections, official repression
and vigilante persecution. The
organization was further shattered by a
factional war over how it should respond
to Russia's Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
and the establishment of the Communist
International in 1919.
The Socialist Party’s Platform:
Bill of Rights
The Socialist Party is committed to the
rights of free speech, free press, free
assembly, and personal privacy, and
the freedom of religious choice
through the separation of church and
state.
Economics:
Economics:
The Socialist Party stands for a
fundamental transformation of the
economy, focusing on production for
need not profit. So-called fair trade is
meaningless as long as the world
economy is dominated by a few
massive corporations
Environment:
We call for public ownership and democratic
control of all our natural resources in order to
conserve resources, preserve our wilderness
areas, and restore environmental quality.
2. The U.S. must immediately return to
participation in international agreements, such
as the Kyoto Protocol, limiting carbon
emissions, and accept a major role in
worldwide efforts to control global warming.