[statecom-discuss] please, let us not rush the delgation process

[Ron Francis]

That's not true !

It could be organized in a matter of hours.  We have a person right now in Arlington who expressed an interest in local organizing for example: that person must have some interests.

Whatever the interests are, we should should get a decent speaker, get a venue, make a literature piece and it's done.  10,000 pieces would cost $200 to $300 dollars but we would get the money back at the event.  It could be on living wage in Arlington, or supporting gay marriage, or a resolution on foreign policy, or a call for end of military recruiting....or whatever issue the person might be interested in.  In Somerville maybe Genetically modified foods.

It's a snap to organize.  

The only question is whether or not we are willing to get out of our comfort zone and actually talk to people other than ourselves.

Ron


Merelice <merelice at gmail.com> wrote: Ron,
As you know, I favor reducing the size of AdCom and have submitted
proposals for that. I could also be persuaded to make other
organizational changes. But my question for you is: How does an effort
to drop 20,000 pieces of literature get organized? It doesn't emerge
full-blown. It, too, takes hours of preparing the materials,
organizing the drop, planning the event to which people would be
invited, etc.etc. By the time the preparation was done, I think it's
possible that many more than the 200 person hours of a statecom
meeting will have been used up.
Merelice

On 5/15/07, Ron Francis  wrote:
> Agree with Mike.
>
> And let's apply the same thinking to our state......

> Another thought:
> Suppose we decided to be radical and and suspended a statecom meeting and used all 200 person hours to distribute 20,000 pieces in Arlington: a city where we have people interested in local organizing but no chapter.  The flyer would invite them to an event on some issue of relevance.   Then we wold have something.  Even if we only used half of the person hours then 10,000 would be distributed. it would be fun.
>
> could we try this instead of doing the same old statecom meeting ?
>
> ron Francis
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