| The Anna Lord for House District 21 campaign began our 2008 walking campaign this weekend.
In 2006 my walk plan was to knock on the doors of Dems, unaffiliated voters and households with a Republican woman under 50. I wore a pedometer when I walked in 2006 and logged 115 miles before I lost it in October.
This time around, we want to knock on every Republican door. However, we can't just add all those new doors to our list without either taking off a bunch of voters or adding significant number to our walk volunteers (or both) so here's my plan to be able to accomplish this.
Our plan is going to require a good deal of support from our precinct chairs. We are asking the precinct chairs and co-chairs to call all the Dems in their precinct (we provide the list and script) and perform some information gathering. The information will be helpful to me but also to every other Democratic campaign as well as begin the organizational and GOTV efforts. The phone script will also include an invitation to an event (house party/BBQ/coffee or whatever) where they can come, meet other Dems in the neighborhood and learn how they can get involved in local campaigns.
If is at this event that I hope to find our volunteers to walk precincts in the following weeks. However, since the Dems have already been contacted, we won't be knocking on those doors, leaving us time, and hopefully enough volunteers to cover all the Us and Rs.
When Anna Lord volunteers and I are out door knocking, we will be including an invitation to a post-cluster-walking "meet the candidate" event (held at a local library community room, community center, park etc.) to give people a chance to meet me, ask questions etc. before we move on to the next cluster.
We targeted our first 3-precinct cluster and got the calls started in early May. While we didn't get follow through from all of the precinct chairs and co-chairs, we held our first cluster house party and were pleased to see some new faces, recruit a few new volunteers and solicit a few new donors.
This past Saturday five of us hit the ground walking (all wearing pedometers this time) and covered our first 140 doors. While it was back to my husband and myself knocking on doors today, I still feel that we're off to an earlier, better-organized start than we were in '06. |
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