Friday, June 17, 2016

To tweeters to Congressional candidates

Whowillfightbigmoney.org is trying to get voters to tweet to their Congressional candidates this:
@_______ if elected, what will you do to #FightBigMoney? http://www.whowillfightbigmoney.org
I estimate that between 50 and 100 tweets have appeared on the #fightbigmoney Twitter hashtag as being sought by Whowillfightbigmoney.org.

It is unclear what Whowillfightbigmoney.org is doing to publicize its website.

On a daily basis, 20 to 50 new tweets appear under the #fightbigmoney hashtag, including the previously mentioned tweets.

One tweeter expressly solicited others to go to the Whowillfightbigmoney.org website and send tweets:
There has been at least one tweet under the #getmoneyout hashtag soliciting voters to contact their representatives in Congress, to wit.
Regarding DemocracySpring's outreach effort, there were five to ten participants in last night's discussion on the Slack page. The discussion exhibited a lot of flailing around and complained of a deficit in "serious organizing". The tweets under the #DemocracySpring hashtag from the past two days report little or no "outreach" activity.

The local DemocracySpring NC is trying to promote an Independence Day Flash Crowd and is tweeting to promote it:

I have said I think the above mentioned hashtags are echo chambers that poorly accomplish publicizing to voters at large the Whowillfightbigmoney.org  and DemocracySpring "outreach" efforts. Without that publicizing, it seems to me the efforts are not going to have a chance of making material headway. (See What kind of warriors are we?.)

In evaluating what I say, consider the Sanders campaign and how much went into publicizing for that, such as by phone banking:

I have tried to instigate publicizing of the "outreach" efforts of Whowillfightbigmoney.org and Democracy Spring  but I cannot get any response from those groups.

I call the foregoing to the attention of  tweeters who have gone to the Whowillfightbigmoney.org website and have tweeted to their Congressional representatives.

Is this all a waste of time? Are your groups adequately supportive of your efforts?

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