[Northampton-GP] Fwd: [Locals] Draft 2004 Green-Ranbow Party Campaign Plan

[Jim Bosman]

This is a draft proposal from the Candidate
Development and Legal Committee. A version of this
proposal will be on the agenda at the State Convention
which is being held May 1st and 2nd in Ayer. If you
need info about the convention, check the GRP website.

Jim

--- James O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org> wrote:
> To: candidate-development at green-rainbow.org,
> 	comcom at green-rainbow.org,
> membership at green-rainbow.org
> From: James O'Keefe <jokeefe at jamesokeefe.org>
> CC: locals at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: [Locals] Draft 2004 Green-Ranbow Party
> Campaign Plan
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:25:31 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> This plan will be presented as a floor proposal at
> the April 30th-May 2nd 
> convention.  We have taken a different tack from our
> previous plans by making 
> it fairly short, and, we hope, more flexible.
> 
> We are looking for suggestions for how to improve it
> and cosigners.  
> 
> Thanks!  -- Jamie
> 
> Draft 2004 Green-Ranbow Party Campaign Plan
> Written on 4/22/2004
> 
> Justification
> 
> Considering the uncertainty over which candidate the
> national convention will 
> choose, we need to plan how we will run our
> presidential campaign statewide.
> 
> Objectives
> 
> It is important that we emerge from the 2004
> campaign better than we entered 
> it and ready to proceed into 2005 and 2006.  As
> such, we have outlined a 
> number of objectives for the campaign:
> 
> 1.  Activating 2000 Green-Rainbow Party members to
> volunteer.
> 2.  Turning 500 Green-Rainbow Party members into
> party activists.
> 3.  Registering 10,000 voters to nearly double our
> voters.
> 
> By achieving the objectives above, we expect to
> maintain ballot status.
> 
> We will need to balance reaching out to areas where
> we have done well with 
> branching out into communities, especially diverse
> communities, where we are 
> not strong.
> 
> Priorities
> 
> To achieve the objectives enumerated above we must
> follow the following 
> priorities in the order listed:
> 
> 1.  Fundraise to meet the financial needs of this
> effort.
> 
> 2.  Hire organizers.
> 
> 3.  Setup campaign offices.
> 
> Actions/Timeline
> 
> It is expected that as money is available, it will
> be disbursed to carry out 
> the above objectives according to the already
> defined financial rules of the 
> party.
> 
> Funds raised will be used for the following items in
> the order they are 
> presented:
> 
> 1.  Statewide coordinator
> 
> 2.  Hire Eastern Mass. coordinator (likely in Boston
> area)
> 
> 3.  Design and order materials (leaflets, yard
> signs)
> 
> 4.  Hire Central Mass. coordinator (likely in
> Worcester)
> 
> 5.  Hire Western Mass. coordinator (likely in
> Holyoke/Northampton area)
> 
> 6.  Open Eastern Mass. office
> 
> 7.  Open Central Mass. office
> 
> 8.  Open Western Mass. office
> 
> 9.  Hire Eastern Mass. volunteer coordinator
> 
> 10. Hire Central Mass. volunteer coordinator
> 
> 11. Hire Western Mass. volunteer coordinator
> 
> 12. Hire South East Mass./Cape Code coordinator
> 
> 13. Hire South East Mass./Cape Code office
> 
> 14. Hire South East Mass./Cape Code coordinator
> 
> It is expected that after the initial design and
> ordering of materials, 
> additional materials will be created.  We also
> expect the coordinators to 
> ensure that draft advertisements are created for
> members to place in local 
> papers.
> 
> Roles
> 
> Campaigns do not operate well by committee.  As such
> campaign staff will have 
> primary responsibility and control over the campaign
> including, but not 
> limited to, organizing volunteers, dealing with
> media and other communications.
> 
> Campaign staff have authorization to modify this
> plan as needed due to 
> changing circumstances.
> 
> Training Volunteers
> 
> Party members cannot become volunteers and activists
> without adequate 
> training.  Campaign staff should organize training
> classes that teach skills 
> such as going door-to-door, registering voters,
> tabling, voter id and get out 
> the vote (GOTV).
> 
> Budget and Fundraising
> 
> There isn't a budget as such.  It is expected that
> once sufficient funds have 
> been raised and saved, it will be used in the order
> listed above.  If we only 
> have sufficient funds for a few of the items, then
> only those items will be 
> brought on-line.
> 
> While campaign staff are not expected to fundraise
> there salary, staff must 
> identify creative ways to raise money to support
> this campaign plan.
> 
> We should be creative in how we pay for campaign
> staff.  While offering a 
> weekly salary is one way, we should explore other
> methods such as offering a 
> reasonable stipend and travel/phone/etc. expenditure
> reimbursement.
> 
> The treasurer, fundraising director and the
> financial/fundraising committee 
> have primary oversight of campaign expenditures.
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