We’ll meet on Sunday Oct 29 4:00-5:00

I will present the book The Tyranny of the Minority which is getting lots of press. We’ll review how things are going in Virginia and what activities remain for everyone to get involved in for that. Meanwhile, there is still time to write letters, mail postcards and phone bank. The Sister District phone banks continue to get really good press –more info about that to follow. If anyone else has something to present at our meeting, please let me know. We look forward very much to seeing everyone.

Regular time, regular place

REPORT FROM VIRGINIA

We’ll have a short ZOOM meeting with a staff member from Sister District to talk about the state of the election. Everyone realizes just how important the Virginia election is. We will also write some letters and review how we can support Michael Feggans. And we’ll drink CHAMPAGNE for the last set of you-know-what’s!

500 POSTCARDS DONE! I’m happy to report that we are checking through the last set of postcards and will be mailing them all on Monday (if you still have some, please drop them by this weekend.)

$3,500 RAISED! We met our goal and finished the auction at the same time. I have been in touch with Sister District about the auction and an anonymous donor interested in political swag bought the whole set for $1,000 bringing our housecleaning to an end and freeing us from having to worry about how to spread the word about the auction.

I am having another meeting with Sister District tomorrow to go over future plans which I will report on at the next meeting.

NEXT MEETING: Since next weekend is Labor Day, we will meet on Sunday Sept 10th, usual time and place.

MEANWHILE all hands on deck:

Michael Feggans phonebank

Write postcards with Postcards4VA.com

Send letters with Votefwd.org (they have tons of addresses)

We are still collecting vital funds in our link

We gathered some fascinating info and new ideas for 2023 at the Sister District Summit this weekend. We will share this with everyone next weekend.

Meeting plan: We will meet Sunday March 5th from 4:00-5:00 pm. A Zoom link can be sent to anyone who wants to attend via Zoom–please ask for a link if you want one. We will talk about a new structure for our group, Wisconsin’s court election in April and also the major election coming in Virginia in November 2023. We would like to know who is attending so please RSVP if you intend to join us.

Please spread the word to any friends who might be interested in joining us.

We’ll gather on Dec 11th at 4:00 at the usual place instead of this weekend. Please pass the word on.

No meeting tomorrow (Sunday Nov 20th) but join us for a celebration on Sunday Nov 27th, 4:00-5:00 pm our house.

Lots to be happy about and we definitely deserve a brownie and some wine. Discussion of election results and future paths to more great victories.

We are driving to Reno on Friday at noon and returning Sunday night after dinner. We can fit two people in our car who would like to join in with the canvassing Saturday and Sunday. We have a place to stay for two, so anyone who drives with us will have to find a place to stay (Swing Left may be able to help with this). Get in touch if you want to come along.

If you can’t travel to knock on doors, Swing Left has lots of good phone banks. This election will be decided by turn-out so let’s turn them out.

We put 700 letters into the mail yesterday, written by members of our group. Not a bad showing. Now we are moving on to phone banking, door knocking and texting.

The election will be decided by which sides gets the voters out and the votes in.

Lots of good info at activateamerica. vote. and swing left.org

Join us next weekend for some GOTV action if not before.

We can win this!

Vote Forward (votefwd.org) has chosen five vital campaigns to boost this week for the last week of letter-writing. If you want to write some letters, I am happy to print them and put them on our porch. We have lots of stamps. This will be a close election and your letter could be the one that makes the difference! Get in touch with any questions or for any supplies.

We blew past our original goal of $2,500 on to $7,000 and are on our way to $8,000. Great work everyone. Don’t stop now– send around our link to all your friends and if you need help with a Giving Circle email, let us know. On to $10,000!