#103

[dave dorkin]

There is a huge difference between the 2 groups. The
Federalists do not do virtually ANY work or spend
money on the ground unlike the Guild and the growth in
the membership can hardly be attributed to
organizational skills. They also obviously promise
(and often deliver) a career pay off which no
progressive legal organization ever could. The
Federalists are a nice job program/support group for
right wingers. 

Just what do you mean by youth organizing in the
Guild? The students who join and want to do
progressive work mostly stay and most of the ones who
dont continue to be members are wishy washy liberals
at best who would have joined the ACLU if that were an
option in law school. 

--- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:


> Compare the Federalist Society to the Lawyers Guild.
>  The two organization's national budgets are
actually not that different, although the Guild's is
> spent in a more decentralized way among chapters and
> projects.  But the Federalist Society devotes most
of their staffing to law student or recently
> graduated young associates.  The Guild doesn't have
> a single organizer devoted anywhere in the country
just to youth organizing.

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