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Many of you who support Bernie ask me what you should do at this point. My suggestion:
1. Continue to work like hell for Bernie, especially given upcoming primaries in California and New Jersey on June 7. Putting aside superdelegates, the difference between him and Hillary Clinton isn’t huge. So far, Bernie has won nearly 10 million votes and has 1,499 pledged delegates. Hillary Clinton has won 13 million votes and has 1,771 pledged delegates. California could make a huge difference.
2. Don’t demonize or denigrate Hillary Clinton. If she wins the Democratic nomination, I urge you to work like hell for her. She’ll be the only person standing between Donald Trump and the presidency of the United States. Besides, as I’ve said before, she’ll be an excellent president for the system we now have, even though Bernie would be the best president for the system we need.
3. Never, ever give up fighting against the increasing concentration of wealth and power at the top, which is undermining our democracy and distorting our economy. That means, if Hillary Clinton is elected, I urge you to turn Bernie’s campaign into a movement – even a third party – to influence elections at the state level in 2018 and the presidency in 2020. No movement to change the allocation of power succeeds easily or quickly. We are in this for the long haul.
What do you think?
The California tweeting bank
TO: As many CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS as we can tweet to
This message is being tweeted to you individually.
We who are tweeting to you are both California residents and non-residents. We are Republicans, Democrats and independents.
We believe that the corruption of Congress must be addressed, and the American people must force it to happen this year before Nov. 8th. Our efforts with this tweeting are part of a nationwide citizen effort to cause this to happen.
We believe that Senator Sanders is the Presidential candidate who can best help the American people force Congress to confront the corruption problem before Nov. 8th. We have asked Senator Sanders to "go for broke" in his campaign about this issue. See Going for broke in NY State primary. Senator Sanders has not yet issued the campaign statement we have requested of him, but we do not need him to do so as a predicate for undertaking this CALIFORNIA tweeting back.
We ask all CALIFORNIA Democrats and independents to express their support for our object of forcing Congress to confront its corruption before Nov. 8th by voting for Senator Sanders in the Democratic primary on June 7th. To do this, you must register by May 23rd as a Democrat or as No Party Preference.
We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of California Democrats and independents, which tweets will have links to this page.
If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to California Democrats and independents to get them to get out and vote for Senator Sanders on June 7th, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.
Thank you very much.
GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN CALIFORNIA TWEETING BANK
A. General
The tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of very large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of Twitter accounts of Democratic party organizations.
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to break out of like minded social media circles in order to "push out" messaging to a wider audience. For discussion of this, please read Breaking out of like minded social media circles.
For questions or discussion about this tweeting, go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/2016congressionalcandidatesdeclarations. To post there, you need to apply to be in the group, and you will be approved.
B. Suggested tweet message
Here is a suggested tweet message to use, or compose your own message:
Vote for Sen Sanders on June 7th to force Congress to face up to its corruption before Nov. 8th.C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/05/california-last-tweeting-bank-for-sen.html
The object is to find Twitter accounts of California Democratic party organizations which have a lot of California Democrats who are followers, which you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is a California resident, send the person a tweet as likely being a Democrat.
Do not worry about redundancy and whether others participating in this tweeting bank may also be tweeting to the same person. If a Twitter account "follower" list is long, you might scroll down in the list and randomly pick a person to start with.
Here are suggestions for Democratic party organization follower lists to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/LAdemocrats/followers
https://twitter.com/sandiegodems/followers
https://twitter.com/VCDems/followers
https://twitter.com/CAYoungDems/followers
https://twitter.com/CA_Dem/followers
https://twitter.com/MarinYoungDems/followers
https://twitter.com/BLAYoungDems/followers
https://twitter.com/EBYD/followers
https://twitter.com/contracostadems/followers
Currently, we set out no follower lists for finding California voters who are Independents to tweet to. If you have any suggestions for this, please pass them along.
D. How to send your tweets efficiently
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list or hashtag listing you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 30 to 40 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.
If you are using a hashtag listing, be careful NOT to send your tweet using the "reply" button. Instead, send a clean, new tweet by right clicking on the person's Twitter name as specified in instruction 1 above.
REPORTS ON TWEETING
Please submit to the blog author information about Twitter follower accounts you have tweeted to, and such information (without identifying you) will be reported here. Also, numbers of page views of this blog entry will also be reported here periodically to confirm that the tweeting that goes on results on recipients clicking on the link and coming here.
COMPARISON TO PHONE BANKING
Two million calls by 15,000 volunteers translates to 133 calls per volunteer. In the tweet banking described above, a single volunteer can easily send 100 tweets in an hour and can probably send 200 tweets in an hour. Using the 200 number, if the volunteer tweets for 2-1/2 hours on Saturday and 2-1/2 hours on Sunday, that volunteer cans send 1000 tweets during the weekend. One thousand volunteers can send 1,000,000 tweets and 15,000 volunteers can send 15,000,000 tweets.48 hours. 15,000 volunteers. Two million calls. Take NY by phone! https://t.co/swgLELawrH— WV4Bernie (@IMMDFH) April 16, 2016
Also, the tweeting bank has the potential that recipients of tweets may themselves send tweets (i.e., a pyramiding effect) and significantly increase the total number of tweets that are sent.
EDIT: WILL THIS FLY?
Please read the below, which is copied and pasted from http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-pennsylvania-tweeting-bank-for-sen.html
Today (4/20) I have been tweeting to users of the #democracyspring hashtag this tweet:
Tweet and shout at PA Dems to help Sen. Sanders fight against Cong'l corruption. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-pennsylvania-tweeting-bank-for-sen.html
I have had 440 page views of this entry. I have had upwards of 50 retweets and likes. I have gotten no indication that anyone is tweeting in the tweeting bank.
I very much appreciate your retweets and likes, but they are not going to "cut the mustard."
Pennsylvania is the current, latest tweeting bank I have tried out. The predecessors, I would say, did not get off the ground.
There are other primaries next Tuesday besides Pennsylvania. Tweeting banks can be done for those as well.
Butt cha gotta step up to the plate.
So, please give me evidence that some of you are stepping up to the plate.
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