Say you are the second coming of Bernie Sanders, ideologically pure in every way, running for office in a place like Reading, PA, where there are lots of poor people who don't typically vote. You want to get them to the polls to vote for you!
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Because your policies are without blemish, and your motives are crystalline, you have an endless supply of adoring volunteers. So you send them out to knock on doors, and mobilize the nonvoting masses. But how, exactly?
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Your volunteers are fired up, but they have day jobs, or classes to attend, and need direction. Who designs the walk sheets that tell people what door to knock? Who comes up with the script? Who gets a venue where people can meet before and after?
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Who prints up the t-shirts so people know your volunteers are with a campaign, and not underdressed Mormons trying to proselytize? Who collects all the data, and puts it in a database? Who follows up with people who need help registering to vote?
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The volunteers (who are plentiful everywhere this year, thank goodness!) need to be organized by people who can spend a lot of time on that important task. Those people should be paid a living wage, so they don't burn out. Doing this right takes money
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Having paid people do this makes it sustainable and effective, not impure. You can't build structure and year-to-year capacity on the backs of volunteers. And their time is precious—respect it by putting them under skilled organizers
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Political financing is a swamp, but the response to it should not be to ban all water. Let's accept that building electoral capacity will take money, and let's collect that money:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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