An Idaho woman rides out of the West, bent on saving Democrats, democracy, run DNC

[TexasTowelie]

Sally Boynton Brown would not be bested by a backhoe.

A few days before Christmas, the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party sat for one interview at party headquarters in Boise, awaiting a phone call for a second interview on live radio with Alan Colmes of Fox News. The backhoe was tearing up the alley behind Democratic headquarters, making nonstop racket.

The call from Colmes’ producer rang in. Boynton Brown, the chief paid staffer for Idaho’s plucky if electorally challenged Democrats and the fifth announced candidate to be chair of the Democratic National Committee, jumped into a darkened closet, closed the door and did the 20-minute interview from there.

So it is that someone with Boynton Brown’s job might not last long without learning to improvise, roll with the punches and not stand on ceremony: She leads her party in a state where Republicans hold all federal and statewide offices and outnumber Democrats by more than 4-to-1 in both party affiliation and state legislative seats.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article124004844.html

[a kennedy]

1. kicking this.......

starting to like what I'm reading about this woman.

[TexasTowelie]

3. She is the third of five speakers in the video on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017417346

[n2doc]

2. I guess with that sort of party participation in her state, my first question is

What has she done to improve things there? Or does she just want to get out of Dodge, so to speak? Saying that it is a hopeless situation there is not the correct answer. We need people who have shown that they can improve the Party's standing.

[TexasTowelie]

4. She starts speaking just after the 20 minute mark in the video at this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017417346