Thanks to everyone who zoomed into The Meet & Greet for Board of Supes Dist 1 candidate Vinnie Bacon last night. Even bigger thanks to everyone who donated and or is willing to volunteer to phonebank or perhaps text for him. As I said last night, in addition to my personal donation, I will add an extra $10 for each $100 that my invitees donate by 5:30pm today, Sun, 8/30. Here are the links for donating and volunteering:

The recording of last night’s zoom meeting can be found at the link below with the password as shown. 
https://zoom.us/rec/share/2u5QFLHqsWlJQ6vN4UPBdqwDTor6X6a81ClNrPcOzUrVSNHQ-QnpPfAJFv9ckcVi Passcode: 2D5At..S 
The link to contribute and have it go towards your total is here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aug29wellstone
And of course, volunteers can sign up here: https://bacon4supervisor.com/volunteer/

Agenda includes Andy’s report on what not to fear, Bill’s update on North Carolina candidates and Naomi’s report on how we are doing with our goals and some highlights from Judy and Bruce.

Check out how well our fund-raising is going!! We are nearing our goals so send the link around to your friends to take us over the top.

1. Link for meeting Sunday August 30, 4:30-5:30

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 895 188 2414
Passcode: 945908

2. I have extra Black Lives Matter signs. Email me and I’ll put one for you on the porch.

3. Don’t forget our gathering for Vinnie Bacon Saturday August 29th 6:00 pm

Kuppa, MI-41, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-padma-kuppa-in-mi-41-with-aaron-8292020

O’Neil, MI-104, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-dan-oneil-with-sam-8292020

Hardy, NC-43, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebanking-for-north-carolina-82920/

Pulver, MI-39, Sundays
1:00-3:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-virtual-phonebank-michigan-sundays-with-scott-miller-82320/
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-julia-pulver-in-mi-39-with-max-8232020

Evans, AZ-6, Wednesdays
4:00-7:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/winning-wednesdays-ebaa-phonebanking-texting-and-postcarding-via-zoom-on-82620

Cox-Daughery, NC, Thursdays
2:00-4:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-north-carolina-8272020

1. All California voters will automatically receive a vote-by-mail ballot this year. If you want to track your ballot, Where’s My Ballot? is a new service in California to track your ballot. Register online and opt in for email, phone, or text notifications. https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/. 
2. Bill has some phone-banking opportunities for this weekend.

This week there is one for North Carolina, Hardy, on Saturday, from 11:00 to 1:00. Here is the link https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebanking-for-north-carolina-82220/     I think that next week this changes to Sundays at the same time. Will double check as it is finalized.
There is one for Julia Pulver, “The Damn Nurse,” in Michigan 39 on Sunday, from 1:00 to 3:00. Here is the link https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-virtual-phonebank-michigan-sundays-with-scott-miller-82320/    This is every week.

3.We are nearing our half-way point in fund-raising. Hurrah! Keep those donations coming.

4. Need some postcard action? I have some TJ Cox addresses.

5. Looking for a buddy to take action with? Send me an email and I’ll find you one.

Action Items:

USPS

These are the members of the USPS Board of Governors, who have the power to fire the Postmaster General.

Robert Duncan
CEO Inez Deposit Bank
41 Main St
Inez KY 41224
mduncan@inezdepositbank.com
606 298-3511

Roman Martinez IV
248 Tradewind Dr
Palm Beach Florida 33480
roman@rmiv.com

John Barger
Northern Cross Partners LLC
945 San Marino Ave
San Marino, CA 91108
626-460-6321 or 213-629-8356
barger.jm@gmail.com

Ron Bloom
Brookfield Asset Management
250 Vesey St 15th Fl
212-417-7000 or 212-978-1709
ron.bloom@brookfield.com

Donald Moak
The Moak Group
401 9 St NW Suite 740
Washington, DC 20004
202-838-3800
lee.moak@moakgroup.com

William Zollars
913-696-6100 913-232-8068 415-394-9000
directoraccessmailbox@cigna.com

The story of why Obama didn’t get to fill vacancies on the board. By the way, Balloon Juice is a great blog run by a West Virginia vet who went from moderate Republican to Never W to left-wing Democrat, picking up a great many progressive co-authors (and a shout-out from Paul Krugman!) on the way.

I haven’t written to the Governors, but I did use Resistbot to send letters to Harris, Feinstein, and Lee. Text USPS to 50409.

Flip the West

Send texts with Flip the West on Wednesday, Sep 16, 2020. Are you free to join me? Use this link to sign up.

Political Roundup

My presentation is here. My discussion is that the legitimate election will be won by Biden and the Democrats, and how we can prepare ourselves for the Republicans’ attempt to create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in order to steal an illegitimate election, or hold onto power in some other way.

As Judy reminds us, we have a chance to flip the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to a progressive majority, if Vinnie Bacon wins the South Country district.

This is the most important, consequential race for all of Alameda County on the November ballot. A victory for Vinnie will completely shift the balance on the five-member BOS which has resisted grass roots efforts to audit and restrict the Sheriff’s budget, combat his cooperation with ICE, his militarized form of policing and abusive conditions at Santa Rita Jail.  Vinnie Bacon is the clean money candidate, pro-labor, environmental candidate, and he needs our full-out support.

We are co-sponsoring a Meet-&-Greet for Vinnie. And a small contribution should go a long way in this race. Pre-registration is required.

I am re-pasting this with updates (the updates in ranking are shaded yellow). Nothing significant has changed, except that the Republicans declined to nominate nutcase Kris Kobach in Kansas. I am pleasantly surprised to see that the first post-primary polls show it is still a one or two point race, against us at the moment.

EDIT 2020-09-22: I have taken this chart down, because there is a revised version here.

Hello, the East Bay Activist Alliance is running a number of weekly phonebanks that are run by their interns (my charges). We had one of our members join a phonebank on Sunday, 8/9 at 1:00 pm. Hurray, Marilyn!!! She did great!

They repeat every week, same day, same time. You can find the links on the EBAA website, http://www.eastbayactivistalliance.org, under TakeAction (link at top of page), Phonebanking (link in menu for TakeAction), Calendar (link at bottom of Phonebanking page).

Here is the overall schedule with links to all that are coming up this week.

Kuppa, MI-41, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-padma-kuppa-in-mi-41-with-aaron-8152020

Pulver, MI-39, Sundays
1:00-3:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-virtual-phonebank-michigan-sundays-with-scott-miller-81620
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-julia-pulver-in-mi-39-with-max-8162020

Hardy, NC-43, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebanking-for-north-carolina-81520

Evans, AZ-6, Wednesdays
4:00-7:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/winning-wednesdays-ebaa-phonebanking-texting-and-postcarding-via-zoom-on-81220

O’Neil, MI-104, Saturdays
11:00-1:00 https://actionnetwork.org/events/ebaa-phonebank-for-dan-oneil-with-sam-8152020

Mode	Committed	Done
Postcards	3895
Letters	900
Phone calls	550
Texts	3000

For the time being, as people report progress I will update this table by hand. If I become either more clever, or pay WordPress their ransom for further upgrades, we can automate it.

Monmouth has a new poll of all the Iowa House races released today. We were correct to concentrate on Rita Hart. She is 3 behind, based, I surmise, on inferior name recognition compared to her opponent, who has lost the last three elections for this seat (but to Dave Loebsack, who is retiring).

Notwithstanding their frequent requests for money, Democratic incumbents Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne are comfortably ahead.

With vicious bigot Steve King denied renomination in the Republican primary, the fourth Iowa CD is no longer competitive. Garden-variety Republican Randy Feenstra is almost 20 ahead.