by: tjlord

10/07/08 @ 08:12:58 AM MDT

I have blogged about Anna Lord's campaign in Colorado House District 21 before. I am coming to you with her latest press release and a plea for donations.

When it comes to conflict of interest, one lawyer said:

There are three standards here:
There is the potential for conflict of interest;
There is the perception of conflict of interest;
There is the legal issue of conflict of interest.

It appears Bob Gardner has issues here. The campaign has already sent a mailing out to all voters who requested an mail-in ballot.  Funds raised will insure that a second mailing, to those who did not request a mail-in-ballot will know of Gardner's questionable web page.

Your donations can help to motivate a District where Anna polled 43% in the 2006 election without any of this information.

More below:

by: AnnaLord

06/02/08 @ 10:49:31 PM MDT

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.  

by: johne

05/18/08 @ 11:57:07 AM MDT

As for the voting process and alternate selection process, I worry people aren't learning from mistakes in dealing with new people one could be bringing into the party, embracing and engaging, so they come back the next time.

At the DL happy hour I had great conversations getting to know CD5 candidate Hal Bidlack and HD20 candidate Jan Hejtmanek (het-Man-eck).

Now, a bit of warning.  The new look to S2 won't be ready until we work out a few bugs.  So, in the pics you'll see a sneak peak on the new banner, but it's going to be about week until all the bugs, I mean features, are worked out.

And that very undemocratic thing of removing Pledged and Elected Party Officials (PELO) from the delegate ballot, thanks for that!  No wonder there's so much animosity between campaign folks and local parties.