I would like to rant for a moment about a pervasive idea, captured in this anonymized tweet, that grassroots work is somehow fake or impure if it involves spending moneypic.twitter.com/YxIYv13Pbz
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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?
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?
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
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
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 …
Thoughts and prayers and support are good, but money gets shit done.
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