I got pretty far along on that route. No one knew me, I went to the Iowa straw poll, met people, joined all the meetups in Virginia and traveled to them, build pauls parachute, built pauls petition and headed the drive. it was working for a while until the campaign came along. I've been screaming this "incompetence" for a while, first as disbelief, then in anger. The campaign is beyond worthless. Wake up folks, get organized. In short, raise some money and start a parallel campaign. It may be too late now, but can't wait until 2012 now can you?
I'm so over the campaign and working for naught but sign waving while the politics of winning get hampered down to reverse gear, I'm simply fighting the Real ID legislation. I'm not sure how the campaign can stop me but they have already taken my web designer right out from under me.
Anyone care about Real ID and realize we have just six weeks left to fight it in Virginia? Didn't the campaign tell you?
Virginia Real ID Meetup
Everyone's welcome to join and help.
This is a sentiment that I keep seeing on all of the RP boards. It has validity and should not be met with snarky comments. If anything, exchange phone numbers to share encouragement and immediate help.
This data corruption thing is the most disturbing stuff I've read. Who the hell is responsible for it? I don't know anything about computers but I know enough that anything not backed up is subject to loss, in a milisecond. The magnitude of this cannot be understated.
From what I can gather, there needs to be several people in every state, who has data base lists and who back them up, every freaking day.
There is public information (voter rolls at county clearks, I think) and there is PRIVATE information, such as campaign contributor lists. Those lists are PRICELESS. Who controls the list for all of the donors and is backed up in multiple copies, every day? This just scares the shit out of me.
To give you an idea of how valuable these lists are, Morris Dees, head of the EXTREMELY un-American, Southern Poverty Law Center, was a campaign manager for George McGovern, in exchange for the contributors list, ONLY.
Naturally, contributors are not always the target audience of every calling campaign. Sometimes it's Republicans who voted in the last election, or Independents. Many of those lists are public, obtained from the county. Long ago, when I worked phone banks on campaigns, every caller had a huge printout of names and phone numbers. That should have been ready in Iowa.
I would love share any insight that my meager experience has taught me, but I know it will only go as far as this post and those who read it. I have no idea how to reach any campaign people. I'll send this to my Meetup coordinator, as well. Dunno what else to do. The official campaign seems out of reach, without a good line of communication.
