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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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 …
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