Wes Boyd
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"Wes Boyd"is an American businessman. In 1987, he and his wife Joan Blades were the co-founders of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company. After selling the company in 1997, Boyd and Blades went on to found the liberalism/liberal political group MoveOn.org in 1998.

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The senate and congressional campaign committees keep getting more and more narrow in their targeting - there is little work done on national message.

These petitions are just the beginning of a process for engagement of the citizens, and they're very effective.

If they do air a partisan film, we'll challenge the FCC and the licenses of the local stations that broadcast the film because local stations have a responsibility to the community to air real news, not partisan messages.

We have received thousands of e-mails, people outraged by the very idea a company like Sinclair would direct stations to air a partisan film.

The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote.

Politicians will respond and move in our direction because we have what they need: popular and financial support.