1.Just spoke with a source in the Mobile (AL) County NAACP. Here are some things that are happening today on the ground in Alabama that did not happen in the 2016 election. Thread:
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5. Once the Jones campaign had money it bought billboards in African-American neighborhoods with the election date and a quick blurb about Jones. This was not on highways but in places where one normally sees fast-food or cigarette ads.
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6. The Mobile NAACP crunched the numbers and showed local pastoral leadership that whatever they had done in recent years to turn out voters wasn’t working. The pastors then pushed for and got resources to do congregation-wide robo calls and voter reg tables at church events.
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7. At school alumni parties the local NAACP handed out several thousand flyers with election dates, registration deadlines, absentee deadlines, voter ID requirements. They also brought these paper reminders door to door in a canvass.
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8. Mobile is one of the redder counties in Alabama. Even larger efforts have done many of the same things in Montgomery, Huntsville, Birmingham and the so-called Black Belt since resources arrived in mid-November.
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9. Beyond the NAACP, there are many other black voter mobilization groups with boots on the ground in AL communities doing similar, extremely important work. One of them is The Ordinary People Society (TOPS). TOPS registered 5,000 in 22 jails and 10 prisons in the last two weeks!
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10. Note: These resources were provided by many of you. We raised $10,000+ here on Twitter in a single evening for the Jones campaign. Many others did the same with their networks. This thread shows how much of it was spent on field organizing.
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11. Nothing like these grassroots efforts happened in 2016 in Alabama. The people who have been doing them are feeling good today. They think they have a shot. And they’ll be working hard until polls close to make it so.
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12. These reports are also consistent with how the DNC spent money to win special elections in Virginia and other states. More money for field and GOTV. Less for TV ads. This is the
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So the Democrats broke the law? I thought we had separation of Church and State! Oh, got it, that doesn’t apply for Democrats.
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Churches and other nonprofits are allowed by law to encourage people to vote and to participate in civic life. You seem confused about what the law really says. Do some reading before you opine next time.
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Spare me. Yes, they’re allowed to encourage. But they’re not allowed to endorse and certainly not from the pulpit. (Johnson Amend) Ur actually telling me (w/ a straight face) that the NAACP was simply helping churches “get out the vote”, and not telling them WHO to vote 4? Lmao.
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Don't be willfully stupid. Do you really think African-Americans needed to be told who to vote for between the man who prosecuted racist church bombers and the man who said he was nostalgic for slavery? You can't be that dumb! Or no?
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Are you really saying that the churches weren’t making robo calls for a particular candidate? They were just calling to say “just make sure get out and vote?” Is that what you’re saying. Really? Are YOU that stupid. Or no?
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You're being willfully ignorant and engaging in what scripture calls "false witness." You know what you get for that? Free tickets to a block party! Bye bye! You're not that bright and your opinions have no value. You're just another hater. No time or room for you here. Ciao!
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Not my area of expertise but I think pastors who engaged in this activity have violated the terms of their churches' autonomy from politics and therefore are subject to a loss in their tax and legal status. Sorry for the long sentence...
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Did they endorse from the pulpit or encourage participation in the process? Encouraging people to vote and helping them vote is different than telling them who to vote for.
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Additionally, trump has been pushing for churches to endorse candidates. He didn’t guess it would work against him!
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What were they robo calling for? Because voter registration assistance isn’t endorsing a candidate and you can vote in churches so they aren’t entirely omitted from the political process.
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They’ve never needed to be examined before. Funny they need to be now. They aren’t pushing any envelope if they aren’t trying to influence elections. Sherlock.
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