Organizing For Action convinced the Washington Post to evaluate their work after the news outlet posted an article asking how long the organization could survive. The group’s executive director, Jon Carson, wrote to WaPo, “Since you have already written our ‘near-obituary’… I thought it could be useful to make sure you get all the proper context of our work long before you have to write our actual obituary.” WaPo response,
“By the most important metric, the group is largely ineffective. Of the priorities above — which, according to the group’s mandate, are meant to bolster federal efforts — none has seen national legislative action. The president introduced new restrictions on carbon pollution, but that was an executive action, not legislation. Immigration reform has stalled; there hasn’t been a national minimum wage increase…
“We now have that context. Our minds have not been changed.”
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