Frank and I hosted a MoveOn.org-sponsored get-together at our house last night.
I won't say much here, but it was an encouraging evening. I didn't expect anyone except Dotti, but four more people came, women from Boston, Ky and Radcliff, KY. We were all gratified to meet each other. We plan to continue as a group. Deborah is setting us up a site on Yahoo Groups, we have lots of possible courses of action. The ones I wrote down are:
1. Take off November 2, volunteer to work.
Well, I'll have to ask you politically-experienced guys. Work at what? Where? Who would we contact? Sounds easy, though.
2. Take 1 weekend in October. Drive to a swing state and volunteer.
Same questions.
3. Identify 5 non-voters. Adopt them.
I can start with my younger girls. That's two.
We also brainstormed:
* Play the Fahrenheit 9/11 movie in a public place.
*Play the "Bush in 30 Seconds" commercials in a public place.
Stores with banks of TV like Lowe's & Sears, streetfront, churches, sr. citizens.
*Find out if you have to have an address to vote, what the ramifications might be, and work on that angle.
*Check out the "If you vote for Kerry, you can't go to communion" foolishness, see how far it's gone, do some PR on that angle.
*Figure out how to communicate with the "KICK BUTT" contingent.
*Ditto for the "BUSH IS GOD" contingent.
*Ditto for the PRO-LIFE contingent. (Note that the states that have the most liberal abortion laws correspond with those that have the most support for mothers, and vice versa.)
*Keep in contact with each other. Deborah will look into setting up a site.
And, those of us who are able agreed to have a phone bank at our house on Sunday, July 11, to help register voters.
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