The fate of GOOOH

GOOOH is an acronym for an organization named Get Out Of Our House.

GOOOH described itself as a "nonpartisan plan to evict the career politicians from the U.S. House of Representatives." The full statement of its Mission is set forth below.

I am not sure when GOOOH was formed. I became aware of GOOOH in 2010. My recollection is GOOOH purported to have 75,000 members. It endeavored to have district leaders for all of the 435 Congressional districts. While the below Mission statement refers to the 2012 elections, I believe GOOOH made efforts in the 2010 elections, and possibly earlier elections.

I endeavored to become involved in the GOOOH effort in Alabama, but nothing much happened.

GOOOH did not succeed very well in the 2012 elections. After the 2012 elections, GOOOH posted the below message on its website:

While thousands of groups have been working incredibly hard to effect change, it should be clear to all that nothing has worked, including GOOOH. It is time to create a new plan. If you have thoughts, please send us an email at goooh@goooh.com. We'll begin reaching out to patriots and groups all across America in the next few weeks to see if we can find a way to work together to replace the career politicians with citizen representatives. Be creative. Think out of the box. Send us your ideas.

That message has remained on the website for the past two years, and I am not aware of any update from GOOOH.

GOOOH's message and goal should resonate with MAYDAY and its supporters.

GOOOH's experience should also be instructive to MAYDAY.

GOOOH greatly appealed to me personally, but GOOOH's experience is cautionary about how MAYDAY can achieve its goal, and cautionary about the efforts I am making in my own campaign.

I solicit your comments about what MAYDAY and its supporters can learn from GOOOH's experience.


[Below is GOOOH's Mission statement, copied and pasted from its website.]

Mission

GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go'. It is a NON-PARTISAN plan to place citizen representatives on the ballot in 2012, ideally in the primary against the incumbent, competing for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The members of each district will have an honest opportunity to replace the career politicians who have taken over OUR House and are destroying our nation.
If you are tired of career politicians, GOOOH is for you. If you believe money has corrupted Washington, GOOOH is for you. If you believe politicians have too much power, GOOOH is for you. If you are weary of the death grip the two parties have on our government, and are ready to return control of our government to the people, then GOOOH is for you.
GOOOH is NOT a political party. It is a system that will allow you and your neighbors to choose, among yourselves, a candidate who will truly represent your district. Members will select a citizen representative to serve their district. How our candidates get on the ballot will be dependent on when we reach our membership goal. Our preference is to compete in the primaries against the incumbent. It is possible candidates may choose to run in some other way; the candidates will make that decision based on the situation in their district. It is important to clearly state that we are not a third party. We have no platform and are a bottom-up organization. We are a process for selecting and funding candidates.
This is an evolving system and your input is requested. The questions are changing based on the feedback of members like you. Participate in the forums. Send us your thoughts. This is YOUR system. We will perfect it with your input.
This is a new system created by an innovative engineer who has developed complex computer systems his entire career that change the way we do things. The founder developed software for a spy satellite system, helped invent the first credit-card-reading gas pump system, and worked at Dell as the company grew to a $55 billion technology giant. This system leverages the internet and social networking to allow "we the people" to select true representatives, not choose between the politicians the two parties offer. If we continue to elect career politicians who represent their party, the special interests that fund them, and themselves, nothing will change. This is a non-partisan process that will enable the change we all seek.
GOOOH will allow you to:
Help select your Representative - while being considered yourself if you like
Hold your Representative accountable
Replace career politicians with true representatives
Take the money out of politics.
Our process allows Americans of every political leaning to participate in the selection of their District's Representative while being considered themselves. Through our Candidate Selection Sessions you and your peers will select the candidate in your district who best represents your district's views. Even if you do not wish to become your district's representative you will want to participate in the process and have a direct say in who is chosen to represent your district. We will fund a single national campaign to promote our candidates (one from each district) who are selected to run against the party politicians. Because we are a process for selecting representatives (not a "party") we expect a socially moderate candidate to be selected in San Francisco and a socially conservative one in Colorado Springs. We expect fiscally conservative candidates to be chosen in just about every district -- but it will be up to the members in each district to decide.
Originally, our founder proposed excluding lawyers, members of political families, and individuals with more than $11.5 million in assets (250 times the median income). They were not to be excluded because they are bad people, but because they are overly represented in government today and, generally speaking, no longer seem to represent the common man. However, based on input from our members, the Question Committee has voted to remove the exclusion of lawyers and the wealthy. It will be up to the participants in each pool to decide whether or not that is of concern. We believe this change is indicative of the continuing evolution of our system.
We hope you will join GOOOH today and help us take our House back from the politicians!
For GOOOH to succeed we need donating members. We encourage each member to donate $100 now and help us get the advertising efforts started. We will choose candidates for 2012 in any district with 250 or more members and a leader. We will continue to build our base of supporters until a month before the filing deadline in each state, at which time we will begin the selection process. Our first candidates will be chosen in Texas, beginning on Nov ember 5th - Texas has the earliest filing deadline in the nation. In most states, candidates will run as a Republican or Democrat, competing in the primary. In some states our candidates could run as an Independent, though they will be advised that the odds will be stacked heavily against them if they do. They could run on some other Party’s ticket, such as the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party, but again, we will not advise taking that route; Republicans and Democrats win 99.9% of the time. The rules in each state and the willingness of established parties tocooperate will help determine how to access the ballot.