WTF?? Lipinski and Kirk are teaming up?

I don't know what the canvas plan (3.00 / 1)

is for IL-03 and further I don't have a great amount of canvassing experience but...

If I were sending progressives from other parts of blue Chicagoland to IL-03 I wouldn't have them just go door to door. Instead, I would have them searching for potential political activists who could quickly grasp progressive messages, that is if they weren't already attuned them. I would have them do something like this:

Send them to targeted pct A. Go to random house. Ask whoever answers "who in their neighborhood pays most attention to politics" especially Democratic politics?" Or ask if they know someone in the surrounding blocks who supported Dean in 2004. Find a person like that and see if they can be recruited as the pct. captain. When someone is found then our volunteer moves to targeted pct B and repeats the process. Therein after "our volunteer" trains and manages the people found and replaces as needed.

Experienced volunteers should be recruiting, managing and training not canvassing. And further they should be recruiting for our progressive organizations as well as the particular candidate.

But maybe that's what is done and I'm just way out of the loop these days.


Jeff Wegerson

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by: wegerje @ Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 08:16:52 AM CDT

canvassing (0.00 / 0)

I don't know what the plan is either at this point, that is one thing I am hoping to find out when I go down there on Saturday.  And though I totally agree with you on what you are saying, when I have tried to do that type of thing before (trying to recruit someone from within the precinct to work that precinct) I have not had much success with it, though when it has worked it has worked very, very well.  In fact, two volunteers recruited that way during the Cegelis campaign ended up starting their own local DFA group -- which was very cool.

And I think that we should definitly suggest a strategy like this to them.

Are you game to go down to this event on Saturday?  If so email me, because I am looking for a ride. 

Basic stuff: The common wealth should be used for the common good, not to enrich the well-connected few.  

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by: Sandra_Verthein @ Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 12:26:46 PM CDT

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Bill (4.00 / 1)

Here is the bill.

Two things: First, the paper is a little misleading as Kirk just signed on to a bill that has been floating around since early June. Second, this isn't exactly just the two of them, it also includes as cosponsors: Bobby Rush (IL-01), Danny Davis (IL-07), Baron Hill (IN-09) and Leonard Boswell (IA-03) among others.

ltsply2

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by: EricV @ Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 09:05:54 AM CDT

It could make a strong man cry... (0.00 / 0)

or get really angry.  Or both.

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by: BobB @ Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 10:59:21 AM CDT