We are fortunate to be working in a small, highly efficient, sub-branch of the campaign. The union UniteHERE (that's the hotel and hospitality folks) have the project of making Washoe County (Reno and Sparks) blue. This is the second largest concentration of people in the state; most of the rest are around Las Vegas. The union has worked here in the last two presidential elections and done the job, but never before in a midterm. This is a campaign operation that knows what it is doing. You can read more specifics at this link.
I find myself in a fortunate position here: I've been around enough of these efforts to know the ropes -- but I am just lower middle management this time, not responsible for the stressful and confidential stuff that running a campaign involves. I just have a job to do -- mostly coordinating volunteers and being a spare pair of hands. Consequently, I will be able to blog about what it is really like to work on an election.
And so, here's a first installment: lead organizers spent Labor Day clearing out a crowded, underused borrowed office of superfluous junk from a decade of campaigns past:
Anyone who wants to volunteer to help make Nevada a blue state that treats workers and people of color right, email me here.
They say door-to-door gave Cortez her victory. We've never had a politician come to our door, but we don't live convenient in Tucson or our Oregon valley.
ReplyDeleteWhat I dislike, no matter whether I like the candidate or not-- phone calls. I avoid most, now that we have caller ID (although sometimes their phone numbers fool me into thinking they are locals). It never improves the candidate's chance to get my vote.
What I like are good position pages on their website, where I can assess their stands on the issues that matter to me. It's more apt to convince me than how much they hate Trump or lots of promises, they can't afford and never will fulfill.