Tony the democrat

Today, Dennis and I went to a post card party at the Kirkland library.  But the real reason to go was to meet this man, Tony the Democrat.  Hopefully I will be able to post a better picture that we took at the end of the event. Actually I don't even know his last name but he is the founder of Postcards to Voters.  I found I had a lot of questions for him; specifically how to send postcards to voters in the Washington 8th and Washington 5th districts.  Extremely grassroots and operating outside the conventional campaigns, they started sending hand-written postcards to Democratic voters.  And making a difference.  I've been doing it for a number of months.  You sign up for a short time period, 3 days.  You request, through your phone, Abbey the Addressbot) the number of addresses you can do in that short time.  They pick the race, send you that many addresses plus what should be on the card.  You buy the postcards, you write the postcards, you pay the postage (.38, not real cheap).

But it's made a difference  in key places.  Not every canddate wins.  It's a great opportunity for those who want to work with a campaign, want to get out the vote but don't want to make phone calls nor knock on doors.  It's very easy to recruit people to do it.

He claims they have 20,000 volutnteers who have written 3,000,000 postcards.  Doesn't look like he's made money, he's taken time off his day job until the mid terms.

But how to get the Washington 8th to cooperate?  That's a toss-up seat.  But they say they will not do postcards.

I'm still a fan.