Little help coming up with a word

[Mark Kohut]

my post was just a rhyming joke, of course, but lookie here.
Seems the concept sorta works in rhymes and variations.
Just posted one.....See "pack out' below

Workers from Dulles & Washington National airports pack out the @dcairports
<https://twitter.com/dcairports> board meeting to demand MWAA ensure a $15
wage. #Fightfor15 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fightfor15?src=hash>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> FRACKING!!!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 13, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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