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freelance lefty comms advisor, formerly iowa deputy comms dir. for @berniesanders 2020, former @mmfa and @thinkprogress reporter. no war but class war.

Joined April 2010

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    1. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
      Replying to @PykeA

      Here's how it works: They put a handful of canvass managers on salary at <$25K/year. In my time, managers put in 70-90 hrs per week.

      1 reply 7 retweets 11 likes
    2. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      To recruit canvassers, these managers post flyers all around the city promising that YOU CAN MAKE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR COLLEGE.

      3 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
    3. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      The express recruiting pitch is, let's find young people who REALLY NEED MONEY to come be fundraisers for us.

      1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
    4. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      The typical applicant for this job has zero experience with politics or activism. We were their first experience of Making Change.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    5. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      So these mostly-poor, often-idealistic, totally-inexperienced kids come in and are told they're gonna help make a better world. Big promise!

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    6. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      Then we taught those kids "the rap," a fixed, unalterable script for hitting up suburbanites for cash on their doorstep.

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
    7. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      (This is where it gets good!)

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    8. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      If you can learn the rap, we're putting you on the street that night. Can't learn the rap by rote within ~2 hours? Sorry, you're fired.

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
    9. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      New canvassers are given exactly 3 days to hit the minimum -- I think it was $110 or $140 raised in a 4-hr shift -- at least once.

      1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
    10. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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      If you can't memorize the rap quickly enough, you're fired. Memorize it but fail to squeeze a benjamin out of strangers? Fired.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
      Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016

      Our burn rate on new hires would make any management professional worth half a tinker's damn throw up.

      9:16 AM - 23 May 2016
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        2. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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          We would routinely lay off upwards of 75% of the kids who came in.

          1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
        3. Alan Pyke‏Verified account @PykeA 23 May 2016
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          It's not that those kids were destined to be Change Agents and Leaders of the Socialist Vanguard until we fucked em over or anything.

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
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