Can you help with a GOTV initiative?
I too read the poll Daniel mentioned in an earlier post, and I am horrified. We are looking at possibly the lowest primary turn out in history.
That maybe primaries need to be done away with, yeah we need to have that conversation. But right now the issue is that people really see no reason to, like we say in Puerto Rico, trade a known devil for an unknown one.
Constituents are not connecting at all with the race because there is no sense of urgency about beating the Republicans. New York City has become such a conservative place that they'll go red again just because they can. And the Democrats at the national level seem to be clueless.
So here's my proposal. I refuse to have this site become a stealth PAC for any single candidate. It's just not in our best interest to do so. But since we all agree New York City needs to move left, let's start a Get Out The NYC Vote campaign during the next 13 days.
Use this post to generate discussion and ideas around this issue. What I'd like to see? I'd like to get this GOTV national. Get your friends in other states call or email their NYC friends regularly until the 13th. If people are willing to do this, I will even go as far as setting up the Advokit software or the CiviCRM module as a stand alone so that we can really do this effectively.
Since neither the DNC, DFA or MoveOn are interested in getting the vote out in NYC, we need to take this up on by ourselves.
Who's with me?
2005 Elections | New York City
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I'm into it.
Submitted by vancookie on 31 August 2005 - 4:03pm.
i agree with zeebah that i'm not so passionate about anyone for mayor, but i do think new yorkers need to wake up and start demanding more from their government. and getting out the vote is the necessary first step.
i've got limited time, but will help. but how? ideas:
--well, email and calls to everyone we know in the city. repeatedly. get pledges to vote from them, etc.
--ditto with people outside of nyc who know people here.
--post reminders in our buildings?
--are there any other groups we can partner with to do some canvassing, fliering, or some such activity?
--are voter rolls public info? can we see who registered dems are just call them? a dailygotham phone bank!
I would love to help with a G
I would love to help with a Get Out the Vote effort. My problem is that I'm not feeling pro- toward any of the candidates myself. There are other races besides the mayoral race that are important too, though! I'm glad to help... but how?