What these campaigns need to do is get a handle on the phone banking companies, about attempted calls, make sure the calling many times in a 1-2 hour period doesn't happen.
I don't know how many delegates there are, but the few hours in the day that volunteers can call doesn't get the job done, if you do the math. They have to have professionals do calling for them. Math: Guess of 300 delegates per ward (about 30 per precinct), 5 person's (35 volunteers per week) phone banking 2.5 hours a day 6 pm to 8:30 average of 3 minutes per call 15.6 nights that assumes you get everyone the first time (generally you call a list 3 times) so assuming you get 33% the first time (15.6 nights), 33% the 2nd (10.4 nights), and 33% the third (7 nights), (33 days)when is the convention? (Still leaves about 1000 delegates not contacted). Do the math for the general election and they really need the pro's calling for them. Brian J Hanf Edina www.trailblz.com Sales 1-800-446-1375 Support 1-866-909-8700 Support 1-952-988-0898 Subject: [Mpls] No Professional Phone Call Pledge To: "'Barbara Lickness'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings. As someone who has worked on, and continues to work on, local campaigns, I understand the importance of phone calls to delegates, both by the candidates and from volunteers on behalf of the candidates. However, I get very annoyed by calls from professionals, whether they are for political candidates or commercial enterprises. I propose that the candidates for local office pledge to stop using professional telemarketer calls. If Mayor Rybak or Commissioner McLaughlin wish to call me and chat, I'd love to talk with them directly. If volunteers for either of them wish to call, that's fine, too. I've made those calls in the past for candidates and I've had some great conversations. However, the automatic dialing described by folks on this list is annoying. If people on the delegate lists are getting these calls already (and I got some before the caucuses), we're in for a long couple of months. Since, at this point, these are only going out to DFL delegates, this may discourage people from doing the caucus thing. Let's not give people more reasons to refrain from participating, folks. Although political calls seem to be exempt from the do-not-call lists, there is no reason why the candidates can't voluntarily agree to refrain from this activity. So, how about it, RT and Peter? Who will be the first to take the No Professional Telemarketer Phone Call pledge? I'm sure that the NPTPCP will be a big hit with the delegates. If you both do it, we (those of us who are DFL delegates) will be very grateful. I'll look for the City Council candidates to chime in, too, although I don't think any of them are guilty of this at this point. Take the pledge! Fighting for a clear phone line in South Minneapolis - Jon Lewis Lyndale REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
