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.

1. Andy is working on a chart of our group goals. Thanks to those of you who emailed your goals to me–if you want yours included, email me by the weekend when Andy will post his new handy-dandy visual aid of just how ambitious we all are. Goals can include how many postcards you plan to write, how many letters, how many texts or phone calls or specific campaigns or outreach activities you want to be involved in.

2. I have ten weather-proof Black Lives Matter signs for anyone in our group who wants one. Just drop me an email.

3. Our fund-raising is off to a great start! We blew past $2,500 and are now heading to $5,000.

4. Need help with moving forward with letters, postcards, texts? Drop me an email and I’ll get you a buddy or help you myself.

I started off with a review of what we need to worry about, and what we don’t.

Bruce talked about phone calls and texting, encouraging us to find a local or regional campaign that suits us. For example, just calling for Biden may not work for you.

Naomi: everyone should make a 100–day plan. Here are some resources.

• Vote Forward [letters]
• August 8 Swing Left Letter Writing Party
• Postcards. Virginia. Tony the Democrat.
• Flip the West [phone bank] [text and phone bank schedule]

Bill will be hosting a series of phone banks to Michigan on weekends. Contact him for information.