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That's what we'd call it here in the UK - packing the meeting - I
heard it happened at one of the recent Momentum meetings in
Manchester area, a bunch of organised newcomers turned up and voted
out all the activists who had been doing the work for the last year
- a local skirmish in a national disagreement. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10-Dec-16 3:29 AM,
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<div>Packing the meeting.</div>
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Mark Thibodeau <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com"><jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
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Thanks guys, but there's a word, akin to stuffing ballots (but not<br>
that, obviously) that describes rigging the system by overrunning
it<br>
with your confederates... there IS A WORD GOSHDARNIT! lol<br>
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:06 PM, John Bailey
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sundayjb@gmail.com"><sundayjb@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
> It's called branch stacking here but not sure if it's the
same elsewhere...<br>
><br>
> On 10 Dec 2016 1:04 pm, "David Morris"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com"><fqmorris@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Coup?<br>
>><br>
>> On Friday, December 9, 2016, Mark Thibodeau
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com"><jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com></a><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> What is it called when an insurgency or outsider
would-be candidate<br>
>>> for a political party games the party's leadership
selection race by<br>
>>> storming that party's convention with a bunch of
"new" party members?<br>
>>> I KNOW there's a word for this, damnit...<br>
>>><br>
>>> J.<br>
>>> -<br>
>>> Pynchon-l / <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l">http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l</a><br>
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