A full set of minutes from our meeting today will be posted tomorrow (thanks to everyone for a great meeting!). Remember to send me an email (when you are ready) with your 100 Days Goals. How many postcards, letters, texts and phone calls will you try to make before election day? Andy will set up a goal chart which is an anonymous total so everyone gets credit for everything we do!

Meanwhile I want to respond to Judy’s questions about our donation strategies. Please take from this what is useful to you and discard the rest.

For the lowest tier on local state and house races, $100 is fabulous and less is very, very helpful. For the next tier, we will give a big chunk to our two main House races (Cox and Hart) since their expenses are on a different scale. In addition, smaller donations to (hard to turn them down when they call):
Galvin (Alaska) (she plays bridge!)

Mucarsel-Powell (FL)
Brzozowski (IL)
Kunkel (WV) (slightly less hopeless than Swearingen)
Swearingen (WV) (hopeless but a left candidate)
Vazquez (FL)
Imam (TX) (software engineer so Andy had to donate)
Torres-Small (NM) (this is important race)
Lombard (KS)
Driskell (MI)
Hoadley (MI)
Tipernini (AZ) (out of nostalgia)
Stevens (MI)
Dirksen Londrigan (IL)
Hicks (KY)
Goroff (NY)

(early in the cycle we gave small donations to Underwood and Ortiz-Jones but they are well-funded now, same with Harder)

Senate: Main donations to our candidates Gross and Ossoff, token donations to Jordan in Idaho since she is a Native American, Bullock, Greenfield and Bollier.

1. What NOT to be afraid of the next 100 days and what we should be worrying about Andy
2. What we should be doing and how to organize it An update from Win2020 by Naomi and Bruce
3. Update from Judy about supporting Vinnie Bacon etc.

At our meeting this Sunday at 4:30 we’ll finalize our slate.

Meanwhile, I have lots of T.J. Cox addresses for anyone who wants some. Postcards on the porch. Email me for addresses.

Click here for Day of Action for T. J.

Finally, we will be swapping in a new campaign for our thermometer so let’s do a final push for our two North Carolina candidates before our meeting.

Big event! Today we will decide on the Elmwood Invisible Slate, combining Sister District recommendations and Andy’s analysis to figure out which are the races that we can have the most impact on and how (from local house races up through Senate) . Bring your ideas and we’ll hash this out together. Our past record is really good—let’s see if we can help some just under-the-radar elections to win on our way to White House and then win them. Also on the agenda, some reports of works in progress and resources.

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1. Act wisely report Naomi
2. Political update Andy
3. Indivisible update Bruce
4. Sheriff report Judy
5. Wise political giving via Sister District Bill

Time: Jun 7, 2020 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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1. Naomi’s short review of good anti-racism links
2. Andy’s review of recent polling and which races are emerging as important and how to spend $$ well
3. Bruce update on Indivisible
4. Judy update on call with Harris staff
5. Bill update on EBAA and funding our adopted races
6. Choose your tool and get your friends helping you : Karen helps Sally text, phone calling, Votefwd letters, postcards

Find a Swing-Left action for this weekend

Everything you need to know about GOTV nationally

Reclaim Our Vote Educational Summit this weekend

Zoom Link:

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Action link 1: Join us for a texting lesson Saturday (tomorrow) at 3:00. Sign up here: https://www.openprogress.com/texting-schedule

Action link 2: Educate yourself with a Webinar by a prominent pollster

https://www.flipthewest.com/bentulchinwebinar

AGENDA:

1. Effective action: Naomi will report on Sister District’s recent summary of its study comparing various forms of political action.
2. Judy will update us on her texting adventures and lessons learned.
3. Bruce will update us on Indivisible national/state.
4. We have gathered materials to support a big push in Vote Forward letters. We’ll review how to get this moving.
5. We’ll launch our action thermometers and discuss our current fundraising campaign with a short report from Andy on wise use of your $$.

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This is it. What we are doing today is what we are going to do in the future. Given that, how do we organize and map our efforts?

1. Postcards. We have 1000 postcards in our living room. Distribution ideas. Andy’s comments on the most important campaigns.
2. Texting. Did Committoflip help? What else can we do to get those who want to text, texting?
3. Phone calling. The psychology of letting it ring. How did today go and who wants more for the future?
4. Letter writing (including Indivisible’s support). Should we have a group goal?
5. Fundraising. Time to shift our website campaign. What next?

I made some calls today! It felt great. Please join us on the phone tomorrow

Swing Left virtual phone bank link.

Then at 5:00 for a short meeting to bring everyone up to date on postcards, calls, texting and politics in general.

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