Little help coming up with a word

[Mark Thibodeau]

STACKING!!!

As in Christian conservatives attempting to stack district school boards
with members of their church or civic groups, or like when Pat Buchanan
stacked the Reform Party leadership convention with his partisans, thus
being able to wrest control of the party's agenda and make it more socially
conservative (fascist really).

Stacking.

At least, I THINK that's the word I was looking for?

Jerky

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks guys. I never did find the word I was thinking of, to convey the
> hostile, semi-covert take-over of an organization by overwhelming a meeting
> with numbers. Christian conservatives used to use this tactic to take over
> school boards in order to put Jesus back into the curriculum.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> On 10-Dec-16 3:29 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>> Packing the meeting.
>>
>> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>>
>>
>> Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks guys, but there's a word, akin to stuffing ballots (but not
>> that, obviously) that describes rigging the system by overrunning it
>> with your confederates... there IS A WORD GOSHDARNIT!  lol
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:06 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>> <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's called branch stacking here but not sure if it's the same
>> elsewhere...
>> >
>> > On 10 Dec 2016 1:04 pm, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Coup?
>> >>
>> >> On Friday, December 9, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> What is it called when an insurgency or outsider would-be candidate
>> >>> for a political party games the party's leadership selection race by
>> >>> storming that party's convention with a bunch of "new" party members?
>> >>> I KNOW there's a word for this, damnit...
>> >>>
>> >>> J.
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