[rtt-abq] Fw: Approaching the finish line + the 7th Xoch-Ability Award Winner!
- From: "Cheryl Passalaqua" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "nmcheryl" for DMARC)
- To: "rtt-abq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rtt-abq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:51:43 +0000 (UTC)
From our friend, Sally Davis. Your efforts are working! What used to be a
reliably red district is purple-blue. Early voting is showing that more Dems
then Reps are turning out, national polls have this one too close to call, and
there is an army of people working really hard to make the blue wave a reality.
Keep up the great work, folks! We're almost there!
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Hi friends who want to see a Blue CD2,
We’re close to the finish line, but as engineers will tell you, the last 10% of
any project takes 90% of the effort. We, theXochitl X-Factors, will need to
buckle down for the last long, hard slog. In the meantime, ...
… if you’re ready for action:
- here are canvassing links for this Saturday and Sunday or call Taylor,
505-721-9533 to set up a time convenient for you. In Valencia County more
people vote early. So right now really matters.
- here’s a link to phone bank from your home in your pjs:
https://www.openvpb.com/vpb_bycode/AA03D2I-831273
- Mark your calendar for Sat., Nov. 3 when the Swing Left Canvassing Bus
will leave the UNM area and head to Los Lunas. Non-students are $10/ticket,
students are $5/ticket. We’ll have a sign-up link soon, but in the meantime,
you can sign up for the Last Weekend and you’ll be notified about the bus:
https://thelastweekend.org/. And … recruit for the bus! ;
… if you need inspiration:
- Read the profile of Barb Grothus below. She has the best GOTV story I’ve
ever heard.
- Watch Obama’s new GOTV video. The excuses he lists are ones I actually
run into.
- Compare Xochitl’s fundraising to Yvette’s (3X as much).
- Read the stats on early voting, e.g., of the 16,000 NM voters who cast
ballots in the first six days of voting, Democrats accounted for 56%,
Republicans for 32%.
Meet Barb Grothus, Winner of the 7th Xoch-Ability Award! Barb Grothus has been
canvassing, phone banking, and fundraising for candidates since around 1976,
when she moved back to New Mexico. She does her homework before she commits to
volunteering for a candidate. What made her choose Xochitl Torres Small? “The
day after the primary, I went to the Secretary of State’s website and looked at
the data for Congressional District 2. I compared Republican candidates (there
were four) and their vote totals with the vote totals for the two Democratic
candidates. I saw 2,000 more Democrats had voted in the primary. I looked at
all the counties and saw Democrats won the total number of votes in over half
of the 19 counties in NM-02. Democrats won the vote total in Valencia County.
They won every county with major population centers except for Hobbs. (There
was a lot of energy there for Republicans because the mayor of Hobbs was
running.) I said to myself, ‘Xochitl can win.’ And on top of that, she’s a
fabulous candidate. “In 2004 I was volunteering for MoveOn. They gave me a list
of 100 unlikely voters in my precinct. I was supposed to visit with them in
person at least three times. It was a lot of work. “I’ll never forget this one
woman, Cindy. I went to her address over and over but could never find her.
Then one day I ran into her landlord. ‘She lives in back,’ he told me. So I
went around back and saw a yard filled with toys, kittens, and children. A
woman came to the door. She had black eyes and scrapes and cuts and bandages. I
didn’t ask any questions. I only asked if she was planning to vote. “‘Oh yeah,’
she said, ‘I want to vote for that other guy.’ “‘John Kerry?’ I asked.
“‘Yeah.’ “I kept going back to her house but I didn’t see her again. But I
left notes on her door. “On Election Day I was at my precinct’s polling area.
I recognized many of the people coming to vote as the people I had contacted
for MoveOn. “I saw a car pull up and a gorgeous woman - great hair, makeup,
everything - get out. Although I didn’t recognize her, she recognized me. “‘Oh
hi, I’m Cindy. Remember me? My father’s in the hospital but I want to vote. How
long will it take me?’ “I told her it wouldn’t take long and she voted. “So I
believe that’s how you get the votes. Over and over and day and night. Some of
the people I contacted are now hard core voters. Richard Romero once told me,
‘If you can get people to vote 3 times, they become voters.’ “People died to be
able to vote in this country. The Freedom Riders. People were beaten. They had
to do terrible things to get the vote. Voting is the last vestige — it is the
last hope we have to retain our democracy.”
Cheers,Sally DavisSwing Left NM
P.S. I’d be very grateful if you’d forward this email to someone who might like
to join us.P.P.S. If you’d like to be taken off this list to help flip NM-02,
please let me know.
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