[Dialogue] Post Election

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Colleagues:
I've remembered a couple more things that I did in this campaign that I've
never done before.
1) I volunteered and received 10 names of newly registered voters in Florida
from TrueMajority's system called VoterCall. I called them, urged them to
vote and offered assistance to help them get to the polls or to help them
find their polling place if they didn't know where it was. The system had a
reporting procedure that I assume would have responded if they had needed
help. (I was only able to reach 3 of the 10 names. I left messages for the
others. Two had voted or were going to. One lady said she had registered and
had never received her voter registration card. I turned that in on the
report too.)
2) I was also a "Human Billboard" for the State Senate candidate. Several of
us positioned ourselves at busy intersections yesterday morning (Nov 2) at 7
AM holding up large signs for our candidate. I was there for over an hour.
At about 10 minutes until 8, I counted 100 cars that came through the
intersection in a couple of minutes. Some of my friends saw me and have told
me later that they thought I was crazy. Many people that I didn't know waved
and honked.
Roger Alexander

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Dunn" <ddunn at ica-usa.org>
> To: "'Dialogue' Listserv" <Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Post Election
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>
> "> I wonder if a new, more radical--as in oriented toward addressing
> > contradictions--political movement will be born?
> >
> > Let's talk vision, contradiction, strategy, tactics and implementation,
> from
> > the precinct up.
> >
> > Nelson, tell us more about your and Elaine's precinct canvassing. Who
else
> > has been active in local politics? Louise Singleton?"
>
>
> Roger Alexander here in Bartlesville, OK - a Republican stronghold for a
> long long time. I became an political activist for the Democratic party in
> Washington County this year for the first time in my life. I attended
> monthly Democratic party meetings starting last winter, I helped
coordinate
> a campaign for a local candidate running for State Senate - I facilitated
> and we used the ToP Action Planning Method to build a campaign plan 10
weeks
> ago (using this method we had by far and away the best organized campaign
> but we still didn't win), I recruited and managed volunteers for the
> Democratic Headquarters in the local mall that was opened in August, we
made
> phone calls, registered new voters, did door to door canvassing 4 straight
> days in an intensive (GOTV) get out the vote effort this past week (we got
> out lots of voter outs but the other side got out even more than we did),
we
> had 6 or 7 signs in our yard for the past 2 or 3 months (the opponents
kept
> stealing my Kerry Edwards sign), I donated and sent money to Kerry
(several
> times on the Internet), Dean (a couple of times), Daschle, the Washington
> County Democratic party, Alan Genteges (the candidate for State Senate
> seat), and today we cleaned out the party HQ's in the mall. Finally, I met
> lots of great "progressives" here in the heart of Republican country and
the
> Bible Belt. I'm sure some will be friends and colleagues from now on. (By
> the way we did lose all the local and state elections to the Republicans
> this time around even with all this effort. They out spent us and probably
> out worked us too). In spite of the defeat, somehow I feel hopeful anyway.
> It was a great experience and "we've only begun to fight" as far as I'm
> concerned. I do think its important to go back to the "drawing board" now
> and learn something and get better doing the political work. That's what
the
> other side has been doing for several decades now.
> Roger>
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