Life of Wry

You know people are anxious and desperado when they’ll show up to an outdoor event on a 108-degree evening to learn about how they can help in the upcoming election.

I’m telling you, it was hot, even with misters, even in the shade, even with cold drinks flowing (it was a brewery, after all). But a whole bunch of new volunteers showed up and joined our leadership group.. 45+ of us out there at Ruhstaller!

Sister District HQ (headquarters of the national org) is so smart, so inventive, so crackerjack! They see a critical need, as all grassroots political action orgs do right now, to shake the trees and mobilize waves of new volunteers to reach out to dem voters (phone banks, text banks, postcards, door knocking, voter registration, friend/fund raising) to get them to the polls to vote for dems up and down the ballot. It’s an urgent, all hands on deck imperative in these last four months of the campaign. And people are ready to be mobilized, desperate to do whatever they can to avoid a return to the hellscape of the trump years. So SD national came up with a strategy, launched it a couple weeks ago, held a zoom training session and got all the chapters across the country to focus on it for a week. Which we did. HQ sent us a list of “hot” and “warm” leads — names of folks in our area (harvested from a variety of sources) who might be willing to get involved (or re-involved). We divided that list among a handful of us and we called those folks and invited them to come to Ruhstaller tonight.

And they came out, whole bunches of them! They asked lots of questions, signed up for stuff, and thanked us profusely for giving them the opportunity to help.

Not only was our effort to engage a new crop of volunteers tonight successful, our friendraising appeal this month broke all of our previous records. (We’re raising money for Field Team 6, who registers 10s (100s?) of 1000s of new dem voters each season. People want to help, I’m telling you.

Some pics from tonight: