There are fewer than 27 days left before Election Day and your help is needed now! Some of you have been out knocking on doors, talking to their friends, family and neighbors. A lot of work has been done, but there’s a lot more to do. If you have been waiting until it gets closer to the election, STOP WAITING. Your help is needed now! If you’ve been working on getting votes for months, your help is needed more than ever!
On Saturday October 13, DFA Chairman Jim Dean will kick-off a canvass in Medford. Can you join Jim and talk to voters for Elizabeth Warren and Democrats up and down the ticket? We need to defeat Scott Brown and ensure that we have a Democratic Senate.
The 13th will be a lucky day for us! It’s a chance to help in a critical area of the state and a chance to meet other people who are part of Blue Mass Group.. After we spend some time getting votes we will gather at an area restaurant for refreshments, a time to share stories and thoughts, and an informal discussion of politics in Massachusetts.
On a personal note, I hope you will join us to celebrate my Third Quadrennial Birthday Canvass. I turned 50 during the 2004 presidential election and decided to celebrate by asking friends to join me on a Birthday Canvass in New Hampshire. We had a great time and talked to a lot of voters so we did the same thing in NH in 2008. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for the U. S. Senate is so critical that I’m departing from tradition and my Birthday Canvass will be in Massachusetts. After 2004 I stopped telling people which birthday it is.
Please join us on October 13. Come to talk to voters, come to meet Jim Dean, come for birthday cake, but please come. RSVP here.We always have fun! Ask Lynne and Charlie if you don’t believe me!
The Lowell event was a lot of fun. Now it’s time to really focus on the work of the campaign. I can’t face the idea of Senator Brown for another six years and likely more.
catching up with old friends and walking around talking to voters about why it is important to elect Elizabeth Warren. Who could ask for a better day?
Can’t wait!
Can’t wait for you all to come to my hometown and knock my neighbor’s doors.
I am not really up to speed as to campaigning yet (as some know my husband of 32 years died of pancreatic cancer on 9/5/12 after a four month illness where I cared for him) – but I hope to come to at least be supportive& see friends, even if smiling and pitching voters is just plain beyond what I can do right now.
Where andI when are we meeting up for this canvass?
knocking on some cape cod doors, but everybody in Medford have fun!
This is 4 of my favorite things all at once: BMG, DFA, my new hometown of Medford, and Elizabeth Warren.
at the grocery store tonight. The best time to talk about it is when you are at the register. You simply talk to the clerk ringing up your groceries. (S)he is trapped there and has to listen. That way, the people who are behind you in line are listening, the clerk and the customers in the aisle behind you are listening and others who are in the area. Great way to get the word out in a matter-of-fact sort of way. :D. Also, never underestimate the power of the produce section. People sort of browse around there, so if you catch someone you know there or can grab ahold of the produce clerk, chat with them a few. I always start the conversation with the cost of groceries. Works well for me because I am truly angry about it, and not to my surprise, so is everyone else, even the clerks.
If you chat with people who you know or who care enough to give you their name, send it to me. We record the information like the information we can from canvassers. For Warren, for Brown, or undecided. This information helps our canvassers be more efficient. E-mail me at katedonaghue AT aol DOT com.
field organizers. I know the campaign wants to get this information, and if I find Warren supporters with a lot of enthusiasm, I will definitely get more information from them. Mostly, I am talking to people who are having a hard time making it (so many people are struggling, I mean really struggling, and now the expensive heating season and the holidays are upon us on top of everything else) They are tired, fed up, and confused about who to vote for. If I can gently persuade them to vote for Elizabeth, I will, and if I can push for more information, I will do that too. Thanks so much Kate for all of the work you are doing. It is making all the difference..
In addition to looking for people who might want to volunteer, it is great to get find out who is undecided, who is supporting EW and who is supporting Scott Brown. It saves our volunteers from canvassing them. This is especially helpful for independents who we are trying to contact. Friendbanking is contacting your friends and asking for votes and letting the campaign know how someone is feeling.
Also, I am “on point” for the Lida Pulido tour (part of “Walking the Word” for peace. She is an idigenous leader from Columbia, and is speaking on the Columbian consolidation Plan, and the effects of U.S. policies on indigenous communities, especially women in her country tonight. She will focus on the commenctions between militarization, trade agreements, indigenous rights, women’s rights, land rights, and environmental protection. The event is at 7:00 PM at 27 Maple Street, in Arlington and is a joint event by Witness for Peace NE and Occupy Arlington. I was not originally the person in charge, but the point person had to fly to England due to a medical emergency in her family, something I rather relate to these days. I hope the canvas went well; it wasn’t raining, and that does always help. Intense one to one discussions intending to convince are really not something that I have the emotional resources for just yet, though. I might have dropped by the after-gather but I don’t know where it is, so I am instead doing some cooking (finger food for tonight’s event).
Probably, though, the meaning was clear. Going offline now.
Check it out.