[statecom-discuss] List needed ASAP of voters Arlington, Acton, Wayland, Agawam Medford, Hampshire, Somerville

[Ron Francis]

I asked Pat about list info for varoouis cities and he responded:
   
  pkeaney <pkeaney at netway.com> wrote:
    Jill has that info. You could probably get it from Eli Beckerman. 
Sorry for the delay - I'm in Chiapas, returning 3/7.

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==> From: Ron Francis 
==> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:36:38 -0800 (PST)

hey Pat, Do you have the names and contact info for registered
voters in Arlington, Acton, Waltham and Agawam ? 

If I recall your
Somerville names also had phone numbers which is critical, but what I
really need is the names of all GRP's in each of the above towns and
contact info if possible. Each of these towns has people who are
interested in starting / revitalizing a GRP chapter using the Nuts
and Bolts modeled first run in West Somerville.... another 6 to 10
towns will also be needed. 

Ron 617 230-2835 
   
  
 
  Thanks Pat for the forward reference to Eli and Jill for a list of registered voters,.. and will look forward to your report from Chiapas...

Turns out now that I'll also need Hampshire, and Medford now as more and more people are interestred in the Local Organizing Initiative (LOI).

It's very encouraging that people are willing to try the WSGRP Nuts and Bolts model that Michelle and I developed in their own communities.  As I indicated over a year ago, there isn't any reason why we can't have active and/or reinvigorated locals in 20 more towns using the Nuts and Bolts model by the end of the year, ... and as the data comes in I'm becoming a believer;... people want to do it and it's just great !!

I was going to just get the lists from city halls and then do a phone search but that will cost about  $20 per town !  (It's crazy that you have to pay to get lists....).  By the way, our Secretary of State candidates in the future should change that .... it's outrageous that a citizen has to pay for the address info of other registered voters when the info is basically cost free to obtain.  Anyway...save that battle for another day !

If any of the committees, or of the statewide campaigns, have the info for people in the above 7 communities, can they please forwarded to the Local Organizing Initiative (Jon, Bagelman, Michelle, Jenna and I).  I did obtain info for Somerville last fall and that was helpful....

One of the reasons we did the statewide campaigns was to get local contact info so that people who want to do various local organizing would have a better chance of doing it... but that doesn't work if we don't have the basic contact info !   It would help if the various campaigns and anyone who has contact info can pass it along....

Jamie is putting together an updated list for Somerville by the way, so please add Somerville as the 7th town where local information is needed.

We would like to begin outreach this weekend as the people in 4 of the above 7 communities are ready to go ! and we just need the lists to execute the model.  If the info can be gotten to us by tomorrow, than that would help.  It is not critical that the lists be 100 % accurate.  We did fine in Somerville with a 35% accuracy rate for our lists...

thanks so much for your help and hopefully prompt reply
   
  ron 617 230-2835