Progress

This entry will report the progress of the citizen effort.

The general tactics are set out in the blog entry Tactics. That entry will be updated periodically.

Congressional districts and States where there has been activity are listed at the blog entry Districts with activity. The entry includes links to separate blog entries/pages that provide information about specific efforts and activities for the respective districts and States.

Other developments in the effort are indicated below. Updates will be made periodically.

11/18/15
The Maryland 8th Congressional district received early attention because the first endorsed Congressional candidate by MAYDAY.US is Jamie Raskin, a Democrat. For information about efforts that have been made in the district, see Some questions for Jamie Raskin and MAYDAY: Tweet and shout at #MD08. There was a Democratic debate in the Maryland 8th Congressional district on 11/17/15. Tweeting was done, which, if you scroll far enough down, you can find at #md08 and #cd8dems.


12/6/15
This Letter to No Labels was posted on December 3rd. Yesterday, the below tweet was sent on an individual basis to each of the members of Congress who are listed on this list of the No Labels Twitter account as supporting the National Strategic Agenda. (The below tweet is the last tweet that was sent to the list.)

@jaredpolis Will you #DeclareForDemocracy? https://t.co/nB7UBSzNWs

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 6, 2015

12/12/15
A. MY TWEETING
Thus far I have been essentially the only tweeter on this #DeclareForDemocracy project.

I have sent more than a thousand individually directed tweets with links to this blog. I have received more than 5400 page views of this blog, including more than 4300 page views of the entry 2016 Congressional candidates Declarations. There have been scores or hundreds of retweets, favorites and other replies.

A couple of people have tweeted to their Congressional candidates, and I have tweeted to other Congressional candidates based on people telling me which Congressional districts they are in.

Besides tweeting links to this blog, I have sent tweets saying to the effect of,

Will your Congressperson answer the question that AL06 Rep. Gary Palmer will not answer? http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2014/09/just-answer-question-gary-palmer.html

That link is in a different blog of mine, and it has received almost 900 page views during the past month as a result of my tweets.

For sending my tweets, I have used reform hashtags such as #getmoneyout, #FixDemocracyFirst, #DemocracySpring, #movetoamend, and #representus, and also the  Presidential candidate hashtags #FeelTheBern, #Hillary2016,  #Trump and #JebBush.

B. SUPPORT OF CFR ORGANIZATIONS
I believe campaign finance reform organizations are fully cognizant of this Declarations effort. They have not, however, expressrf support for the effort or, if they think the effort should not be supported, given an explanation of why not. Whether the organizations will be drawn out remains to be seen. This effort needs scores, if not hundreds, of volunteer tweeters (see Tactics). To get volunteers, it would be obviously helpful if campaign finance reform organizations would urge their followers/members to participate in this effort.

Here are tweets from today further trying to get the CFR organizations to support this effort:

@KCDP_D7 Rationale for why you should try to get your Congressional candidates to #DeclareForDemocracy. https://t.co/Lydddyfanq

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 12, 2015

@KCDP_D7 I'm game. Are @MAYDAYUS @ZephyrTeachout @lessig @mmckinnon @nhrebellion @RepresentDotUs @WolfPAChq and @StampStampede game?

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 12, 2015

@KCDP_D7 @MAYDAYUS @ZephyrTeachout @lessig I think others will tell you I have had laser focus.

— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 12, 2015

For subsequent progress, see Entry index.