TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.) Directions: WHO, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, HOW
II.) The Candidates.
III.) General Commentary.
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I.) Directions: WHO, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, HOW
WHO:
WE the teachers of Seattle need YOU the teachers of Seattle ...!! Parents, retired teachers, regular old citizens - welcome! I need corner 'captains'. I'll get signs to the corner captains. Corner captains make sure the signs are to the intersection on time, and make sure that someone collects the signs up at the end of the rah-rah for reuse.
WHEN:
Friday the 18th of October, 4:00 to 6:00 is 2 days after ballots have gone out in the mail, lots of people vote early!
Friday 1 Nov. 4:00 - 6:00 is the weekend before the ballots are due - remind people going home to vote!
WHERE:
Some of us live close to where we work, some don't.
I'd rather rah-rah with people who live close to me so that on future issues affecting my neck of the woods I have local allies. Some would rather rah-rah with work mates. Whatever works for you!
The following locations are places for which I have confirmed corner 'captains' as of 28 Aug. I'll add more locations as I get more 'captains'.
- Northgate and 1st Ave. N.E.
- 15th Ave NW and NW Market St. (Ballard)
- Rainier Ave S. & MLK pedestrian bridge at Franklin High School
- Fauntleroy and 35th avenue SW
Come for either day or for both days!
WHAT:
Wave Signs for Sue Peters
(NOTE: as of the sending of this email, I am going to buy 100 signs myself and staple them to sticks, myself - please forward complaints to roundfile@junkmail.com)
HOW:
Hold the sign, don't block traffic, wave the sign. Smile? Wave? Drink hot chocolate?
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II.) The Candidates.
A.) Who is Sue Peters?
Sue is on the side of PUBLIC education.
She has blogged at http://seattleducation2010.
B.) Ms. Estey is backed by all the local Gate$ luminarie$ who backed Maria Goodloe-Johnson to the hilt, such as school board members Maier and Debell, as well as the electeds who dump garbage like student test scores into our evaluations - take a bow Sen. Ed Murray & Rep. Carlyle!
WARNING for those of you who get the vapors from comments purposely larded with sarcasm, contempt and disdain - CLOSE YOUR EYES BEFORE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING!!!
III.) General Commentary.
A. WHY this activity, at these times, and these locations?
Whether you've worked on campaigns or not, there are a variety of campaign activities to do (Sign Waving Rah Rah in public / at public events, helping mail stuff, phone banking, door belling, leafleting, writing letters to the editor in legacy media, commenting on blogs or in online articles about the candidate..), there are good times and bad times to do any of the campaign activities (Sign Wave at midnight? doorbell at 02:00 a.m. ?? uh...), and there are a lot of places where the things can happen.
When you consider the math of Campaign Activities (Multiplied By) the Times To Do The Things (Multiplied By) The places to do the Things = a lot of possibilities.
When you consider that organizing each activity requires answering WHO,WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW - there is a lot to do for even 1 activity.
I already have a full time ++++ job. IF you want to do something else somewhere else at some different time(s)., YOU organize it! IF you want to use this blog etc to organize your thing - ping me at wabat42 at google's mail.
B. Some background.
Over 4 decades, I've been a lowly know nobody on dozens of campaigns, and over that time I've done just about all the different grunt work jobs. On every campaign, I've seen the following sets of contributors:
1. Some Super People who do incredible feats, such as doorbell 10 precincts or phone bank for 5 hours a week or ...
2. For each Super People, there are 4 or 40 Regular People who contribute some effort several times during the campaign.
3. There are also 4 to 40 Know-Everything-Do-Nothing People for each Super People. They know every strategy and tactic and idea ... and they deliver either nothing or next to nothing. Spare me.
love this, bob...... thanks....
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