[Seattle-editorial] FP: Indyvoter.org

[sheri at speakeasy.org]

this is cool.  be great to alert young people that their voice can make a difference!



Check this out! I just got this from Billy Wimsatt and the brand-new 
League of Young Voters. VERY INSPIRING!!! The next generation is 
stepping up in a major, MAJOR way to deal with the criminal 
highjackers in the White House. Read this and you will smile. van

------ Forwarded Message
From: Billy Wimsatt <pissedvoter2004 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:31:14 -0800 (PST)
To: pissedvoter2004 at yahoo.com
Subject: quick favor

hi,

I need your help on something right quick for the League.

I need your address + zip code.
(we need it to get your electoral district -so we can be effective).

Please go to www.Indyvoter.org <http://www.indyvoter.org/>  and sign 
yourself up.
(under “join here” on the left hand side of the screen.)

Our test goal is to get 500 people in the database by this weekend.

Seriously, it will take you ONE MINUTE.

Our generation is about to flex. Be part of it.

billy
www.Indyvoter.org <http://www.indyvoter.org/>  

ps. below is some quick background on the League.

Background:

One year ago, I sent out an email to 120 hip-hop activists and 
political organizers proposing that we come together and start a 
“League” to create local progressive voter guides and voting blocs 
across the country. You wrote back with a 50% response rate! It was 
such an obvious idea. I couldn’t believe no organization was already 
doing this. I felt like: Does the progressive movement have a brain? 
My co-founder Kyle Stewart and I called up every voting group in the 
country and they all said the same thing: No one is doing this. You 
folks should do it.

So we sent out another email to 300 people saying: Hey, are you 
serious? If so, volunteer! Again, we got a 50% response rate and more 
than 60 people volunteered. We were like: Holy Shit! We need to build 
an organization to channel this. We spent the next six months 
surveying people, researching models, building partnerships, filing 
paperwork, coordinating volunteers, laying the foundation.

Then Adrienne Brown came along and said: “Hey, you need a Steering 
Committee.” So she organized a Steering Committee of 12 of the most 
dedicated, talented people to build the organization. One year after 
the first email went out, we’re up and running.

What We’ve Accomplished so Far:

We have a fiscal sponsor, funding, an office, staff, a website, more 
than 50 volunteers working on a weekly basis, and 7 interns.

We’ve organized 3 national gatherings, held more than 50 local ones 
in 14 states, and piloted two local voter guides -in Cincinnati and 
New Orleans- with a great response. Our model works! It gets people 
who hate/ignore local politics to become involved/obsessed –precisely 
our intent.

We hired CTSG (the top progressive online company which does back-end 
programming for Moveon.org, etc.) to build our online tools. We’re 
not playing.

We created a book How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office (out in 
March) with 20 success stories of young people from 16 states who 
swung or won elections –from city council to US Senate- and a 12 
author, 80 city swing state tour. It’s gonna be huge –it will 
revolutionize the way young people think about electoral politics. 
We’ve already gotten 9,200 pre-orders from bookstores.

And that was just testing the waters.

Waters = tested. Time to give stank politicians a bath.

In 2004, we’re unveiling our multi-state “voter organizer” trainings, 
and a comprehensive online/offline week-by-week, precinct-by-precinct 
ground campaign in the six months leading up to the November 2 
election.

We call it November Surprise.

You’ll see.

Want to be part of it?

Go to www.Indyvoter.org <http://www.indyvoter.org/>  RIGHT NOW. Sign up.

Then strap on your seatbelt.






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