@_______ if elected, what will you do to #FightBigMoney? http://www.whowillfightbigmoney.orgI 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.Join me in demanding that every candidate for Congress go on the record to #FightBigMoney https://t.co/MKF0jg5LKN— Lil'Xza Jackson (@TheRealLilXza) June 15, 2016
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.Rhode Islanders, Please call your Senator TODAY. Ask for a YES vote on SR2589. We are 1/2 way there! #getmoneyouthttps://t.co/3ryxiiRJyU— Martha DiMeo (@MarthaDiMeo) June 17, 2016
The local DemocracySpring NC is trying to promote an Independence Day Flash Crowd and is tweeting to promote it:
Because who doesn't love a good flash mob? @DemSpring @OccupyRaleigh @RobShattuckAL06 https://t.co/eS8aAtPdcj— Democracy Spring NC (@DemSpringRDU) June 16, 2016
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:
48 hours. 15,000 volunteers. Two million calls. Take NY by phone! https://t.co/swgLELawrH— WV4Bernie (@IMMDFH) April 16, 2016
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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