Dear Zach,

Even though I think the effort of typing some words in response to this article (and to some of the comments at our recent Dem. monthly meeting,) will be fruitless, I would still like to make the effort because in my four or five years as PCO I've learned something...caucuses are pretty much a waste of time, effort and money.

Having never attended a caucus (I came on board with politics during the Dean phenomenon and it's still not a good match for me,) I found out I was in charge of my first caucus...and was site leader for 7 (!!!) other precincts.  I attended every inservice offered and still had "heqq" on my hands that Sat.  It was stressful, confusing, expensive, and generally bad and I was not alone in that assessment.  I won't even go into to the ethics questions having to do with PCOs possessing the results of the caucuses pretty much unsupervised for a length of time and the storing of the results at a private home afterward.  Very unsettling.

My second caucus experience was in 2006...and I had ONE attendee.  I guess one could say I had a 100% success rate because I persuaded her to become a PCO but I think anyone examining the amount of time, money, etc. that was expended on that Sat. was not returned in the way of any real success.