A. Whowillfightbigmoney.org "outreach"
"Outreach" would seem to have two components of (i) communication to, including response back from, candidates, and (ii) communication to voters.
Whowillfightbigmoney.org seems to be making good progress with its website and getting "outreach" to Congressional candidates going.
Its "Tweet to" and "Email to" buttons on individual state pages (see, e.g., http://www.whowillfightbigmoney.org/alabama) for voters to tweet to and/or email to the candidates in their Congressional districts are very useful "outreach" tools for communicating to and getting response from candidates.
As to the "outreach" component of communication to voters, I am sure whowillfightbigmoney.org desires to find ways to get as many voters as possible in a Congressional district to come to the whowillfightbigmoney.org webpage for the district.
I have advocated the use of tweeting banks as a way to get voters to go to/ come to a webpage.
Yesterday I created this AL06 tweeting bank (AL06 being my Congressional district}, and I have included this language and link to the Whowillfightbigmoney.org Alabama webpage:
For information about where Rep. Gary Palmer and David Putnam stand on fighting the corrupting influence of money in politics, go to http://www.whowillfightbigmoney.org/alabama.The tweeting bank can only generate voter traffic to the Whowillfightbigmoney.org Alabama webpage if people tweet in the tweeting bank. I am trying to get that to happen. but don't have success to report as of yet.
We can all want for whowillfightbigmoney.org to develop ways to get voters to come to their website.
I hope they promote the use of tweeting banks. We shall see on that and about any other ways that are developed to get voter traffic to the whowillfightbigmoney.org website.
B. DemSpring's "outreach"
DemSpring's outreach, in communicating to candidates, is to get them to sign the Equal Voice for All Declaration. The Declaration is on a separate website, and candidates who have signed are reported at http://www.equalvoice4all.us/signed.
At this time, I don't believe DemSpring has any webpage with "Tweet to" and/or "Email to" buttons for voters to use to send tweets or emails to their candidates asking them to sign the Equal Voice for All Declaration.
In terms of "outreach" to voters to get them to ask candidates to sign the Declaration, DemSpring has not progressed much on that front. I have advocated tweeting banks to DemSpring, but they have not responded to that idea yet. We will have to see what DemSpring develops on the "outreach" to voters front.
C. "Outeach" to voters
I think both whowillfightbigmoney.org and DemSpring need to develop "outreach" to voters much more.
"Outreach" to voters would seem to be very labor intensive if there are not funds to pay for the "outreach." "Outreach" to voters to be accomplished by volunteers is going to very hard to come by, and I think whowillfightbigmoney.org and DemSpring will have a much better chance of accomplishing meaningful "outreach" to voters if they combine their efforts.
I think it is strongly to be recommended that DemSpring and whowillfightbigmoney.org get together better on this.
Good idea. Thanks for the outreach.
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