Bill Brennan for NJ Governor: Offshore Wind development NOW !

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Sunday January 22, 2017 · 12:24 PM PST

2017/01/22 · 12:24

The Atlantic Wind Connection has languished on the shelf long enough during the Christie Administration. The AWC is a marine grid, 10 to 20 miles 350 miles long from NJ to Virginia Beach that will support the construction of 1000 wind turbines. With funding from google the ACW would be the largest offshore wind farm in the US. Studies show that wind turbines are carbon neutral in less than 12 months and provide the cheapest electricity of any newly built generation. With Chris Christie on the way out, its time to build offshore wind projects like the AWC.

Democrat Bill Brennan supports the construction of The Atlantic Wind Connection. As Governor Bill Brennan will fight for renewable energy projects like the AWC. New Jersey can lead the nation in offshore wind, and take the lead in fighting Climate Change.

Wind turbines, of the Block Island Wind Farm, tower above the water on October 14, 2016 off the shores of Block Island, Rhode Island..The first offshore wind project in the US has created more than 300 construction jobs and will deliver the electricity demands for the entire island. / AFP / DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) — The AWC was proposed years before the Block Island Wind Farm. Block Island is now generating electricity. Now that Chris Christie is on the way out, its time for NJ to take the lead on offshore wind development

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Political power at its most fundamental level

Roger Fox

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Monday January 09, 2017 · 5:39 PM PST

2017/01/09 · 17:39

In the New Rochelle VVOX studios January 2015, to talk about the Democratic Primaries.

Rank and file Dems learning how to run campaigns and how to be candidates and teaching those things...learning how to create and wield political power at its most fundamental level……

IMHO is the most important thing to do in 2017.

I live in Westcheter county NY. At the end of January I am hosting a phone bank for my Town Dem Committee, we’ll be calling Dems in districts where we have no district leaders and recruiting people to fill those vacancies. No one thought to do that before…..

I started working for and volunteering for campaigns in earnest in 2004 when I was hired by the Kerry, Edwards campaign. In early 2005 I attended a Camp Wellstone 3 day campaign training. Between carrying petitions and managing a campaign, I’ve been involved in 19 campaigns since 2004.

Roger Fox began building his political resume at 14, volunteering on George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign.

In 2004, the 58-year-old Harrison resident was a paid staffer in Broward County, Fla., for John Kerry's presidential campaign. Since then, he's been involved in 14 political races throughout the East Coast.

Westchester Journal News

Ok, I’m probably not like a lot of people at DK. And not everyone is cut out for this kind of work. But I think a lot of people would be very good working in campaigns. Many people already have important skills and life experiences that cross over into working in campaigns.

So when I proposed the mundane proposal to phone bank to fill vacancies in our local committee, my chairman thought is was a great idea. So now I’m in charge of outreach. But yes its mundane…. to anyone who has ever worked in campaign field ops.

If these campaign skills are more prevalent, enough so that every Dem running for local office in 2017 can get quality support from their Dem committees, then Dems would have a much better chance of winning town council seats, city council, state senate, county legislature seats in 2017. And if we are successful in 2017, our chances in the midterms are going to be far better with even more experienced campaign staffers and more and better candidates.

Can you do graphics for palm cards? There’s a campaign that needs your help. Do understand how geo filters are used in a social media campaign? Its your turn to step up. Have you hosted phone banks and canvasses, and taught volunteers how to phone bank and canvass? You should be a campaign volunteer coordinator. You’ve done some of these things and want to learn more? Email the Wellstone Foundation and tell them you want to attend a Camp Wellstone training in your state, and after the training, step right into running a state senate race.

So in a way I’m making the same old pitch, get involved. Except that 2020 is the most important race ever. And we’ll all heard that before, except… if we don’t do the ground work now...in 2017...we hurt our chances in 2018 & 2020. And don’t assume we’ll get another chance. Its time to step out of your comfort zone and step into a leadership role. Your help is needed.

Yeah I know Trump sucks and is nuts, but stop letting Trump being the pretty shiny thing. Expanding our foundation in 2017, allows us to build on those victories in 2018. And this my friends …..

…...Is a bit more important than Trumps latest tweet.

Roger Fox

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Friday November 11, 2016 · 2:50 PM PST

2016/11/11 · 14:50

By now you’ve heard that Sanders, Warren and Schumer are supporting Keith Ellison as DNC chair. And I hope everyone knows that Howard Dean is a lobbyist. What you may not know is that I am a founding member of NJ 4 Dean. In 2006 Dean showed Democrats at the national level how to do Field Operations, something that every Camp Wellstone graduate knows.

I’ve been in 16 campaigns since 2004, Wellstone grad 2005, lit dropped 6,000 houses in Stratford Ct in 1972 for McGovern. I built a county level campaign for Sanders, including building a voter database for NY state that was shared with organizers in 8 other congressional districts in NY, and distributed nearly 2 million phone numbers we got by “Scraping”.

I did this in Hillary’s home county Westchester NY. We did this in Hillary’s hometown. We were phone banking and knocking on doors months before the Sanders Campaign made in state hires. I wore many hats, Press Secretary, Communications Director, Campaign manager, Communications Director, Volunteer recruitment coordinator

….blah blah blah.

I’m old, I’m 58. I’ve downloaded skills and knowledge to Millenials and Gen Xers, and have watched them go forth.

2 of my volunteers ran a ballot access operation, getting a guy on the ballot for a congressional race. Another was the Field Director for George Latimer for State Senate, he turned what could have been a close race into a veritable blowout.

Now I’m telling these young Berniecrat volunteers who recently attended a Camp Wellstone political training, its your turn- Its you turn to manage a campaign, its your turn to run for office. Its your job to win public office.

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Ellison earned a 100% ranking in 2011.

Ellison met with Occupy Minnesota in October of 2011 and 2 months later introduced a jobs bill called “Restore the American Dream for the 99 Percent Act” In 2009 Ellison was named Vice Chair of the Populist Caucus, served a board member: Wellstone Foundation, PDA, Economic Policy Institute. citation

Ellison is a tireless worker, disciple of Wellstone and worked hand in hand with John Conyers on a variety of justice issues. Ellison has the cred and the chops. Ellison also warned us about Trump 14 months ago and was all but laffed off the set by George Stephanopoulos.

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Howard Dean is not the only soul in this country that knows Field. And the Democratic leadership knows that.

Roger Fox

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 1:34 PM PST

2016/11/09 · 13:34

In 2012 129,085,403 people voted for President.

In 2016 125,300,336 people voted for President.

A difference of 3.785 million people, they stayed home. If it wasn’t for Gary johnson, Trump would have won by 3+ million votes.

Jill Steins 1.2 million votes did little harm to Hillary, 30 more electoral votes from 4 states where Jill’s votes could have put Hillary over the top still leaves Hillary at 258.

Having 3.7 million voters not voting did the most harm. Please focus on that. We all know that when turnout is high, Democrats win. Blaming the refs because your football team lost is not classy, your team needs to score more touchdowns.

The Democratic Party is the big tent party, the party of inclusiveness. We represent the vast majority of Americans when it comes to bread and butter, middle class, Main St, issues.

Yeah we screwed up, to the tune of 3.7 million votes. And there is enough blame to go around, starting with Hillary, but lets not choose that route. Whether a sports team of a project team in a corporation, when something goes wrong, you do a postmortem, learn the lesson from the postmortem and you move ahead.

Stay classy my friends and remember some of us are already working on 2018.

Bernie Sanders employs Revolution Messaging, not for Trolling, but for Fund Raising.

Roger Fox

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Friday April 22, 2016 · 7:13 PM PDT

2016/04/22 · 19:13

And a fine job they’ve done as Sanders has raised 185 million to Clinton’s 186 million.

Elizabeth Bennet is Revolution Messaging’s Account Manager, she serves as deputy digital ads director for the Sanders campaign. Revolution Messaging is run by a veteran Digital Staffers from the 2008 Obama campaign and manage digital advertising, branding, video creation, website development, texts to supporters and the Sanders online store.

One of their efforts that raised six figures and helped boost Sanders’ donor list by tens of thousands was a fundraising email that looked like text messages between Ben & Jerry’s ice cream founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, about the influence of money in politics. His list also got a lift from Facebook ads in 26 states, petitioning governors to allow Syrian refugees in their states.

“It was a great way to give Bernie a digital megaphone on this particular issue,” said Elizabeth Bennett, the firm’s account manager who serves as deputy digital ads director for the campaign. “They sign the petition and then they’re fired up about his message and then they’re eager to donate later.”

www.usatoday.com/...

Revolution Messaging has made good use of the mass texting app called Hustle while using online petitions to engage supporters, generating emails lists for online fundraising.

It’s a familiar way of donating, mastered by the Red Cross during global catastrophes: Simply text a five-digit number and a donation is made seamlessly through a phone bill.

And now the method is coming to the Sanders campaign. Through the campaign’s digital vendor, Revolution Messaging, supporters of Mr. Sanders can now text the word “Give” to a special number and automatically donate $10.

www.nytimes.com/...

Scott Goodstein, Revolution Messaging’s CEO and former Online Director for Barack Obama:

“Like a lot of Obama supporters, we were looking for a candidate with a track record of doing the right thing – even if it meant taking on Wall Street billionaires and other powerful interests. A candidate who could inspire a movement,” said Scott Goodstein, founder of Revolution Messaging and external online director for Obama ’08. “Bernie Sanders is that candidate.”

“We are thrilled to bring our award winning ad technology and rapid response digital media tools to this quickly growing movement,” added Goodstein.

revolutionmessaging.com/...

Arun Chaudhary – the first official White House videographer, a position created for him at the beginning of the Obama Administration. He also created “West Wing Week” and served as President Obama’s new media road director for the 2008 campaign.

Shauna Daly – the deputy research director for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, she spearheaded the creation of the Stop the Smears website.She also served as senior advisor of American Bridge and as research director of the Democratic National Committee.

Keegan Goudiss – the head of Revolution Messaging’s award-winning advertising team who has pioneered social media data tracking technologies for campaigns and worked for the DCCC and numerous campaigns before becoming a partner at Revolution Messaging.

Walker Hamilton – One of the lead programmers and site architect for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, now Chief Technology Officer at Revolution Messaging.

Tim Tagaris – With a focus on fundraising, Tim has raised over $40 million online while serving as Digital Director for Senator Chris Dodd’s 2008 presidential campaign, Senator Chris Murphy in 2012, Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate, and other Revolution Messaging clients. From 2008-2011, he built and directed SEIU International’s first Digital Strategy Departpartment.

No, Bernie doesn’t do it too. A simple cursory google search can lead to the facts, unless you’re interested in writing a hit piece, then please, don’t facts get in your way.

Sanders has raised almost all of his money online compared to more than half, just this year, for Clinton. He has no offline fundraising staff and has held a total of just nine traditional fundraisers, while Clinton exceeded that number during a week in February.

www.usatoday.com/...

Mistaking the Sanders political fundraising machine for online trolls is truly an embarrassing thing. But thats not what actually happened here, the accusation that Revolution Messaging is hiring online trolls for Sanders is baseless.

Westchester 4 Bernie invades Chappaqua NY #InHerBackyard

Roger Fox

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Tuesday April 12, 2016 · 5:29 PM PDT

2016/04/12 · 17:29

I’ve been organizing for Bernie since August in Westchester NY.

But I have a major favor to ask, we’re organizing the biggest canvass in 2016 for Bernie and we need you to create ride share and car pool events in NJ, to get canvassers to Chappaqua NY. You don’t have to be able to go to NY but organizing and creating car pool events will have a YUGE impact.

This will be a press event, expect TV and print reporters. We will have fresh turf, Bernie Lit and Swag.

All the details are here go.berniesanders.com/...

Dunkin Donuts (Chappaqua, NY) 86 South Greely Ave
Parking Lot Chappaqua, NY 10514

The Dunkin Donuts is in the Chappaqua Train Station parking lot so there is parking for hundreds. I can be reached at roger@westchester4bernie.org

Team Bernie You have donated $263 to W4B buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's back yard, finish it !

Roger Fox

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Sunday March 27, 2016 · 4:43 PM PDT

2016/03/27 · 16:43

No these sorts of donations don’t count to the $2700 max allowed for direct donations to your candidate. Expenditures under $1000 are allowed by groups and individuals.

This crowd fund project will fund the purchase of 500 W4B buttons, printed at a union shop, they will cost $430. As of this morning we’ve raised $180.

Here’s our plan, these buttons will be sold to canvassers on the ground for $3, the proceeds will go to funding 100’s of Westchester 4 Bernie lawn signs.

For every donation of $60 or more you will be mailed 3 W4B buttons as a bernspark PERK. Our deadline for the project is March 31st.

Thats me on the left and Barry on the right delivering the BERN at the Chappaqua Train station back in November. Our first crowd fund project raised over $500 for 10,000 pieces of 4 x 6 color glossy Bernie Lit. I built a voter database with phone numbers back in August/September, so we were canvassing and phone banking Westchester Dems back in then. Yes, I built my own VAN. Westchester4Bernie.org is now coordinating with Sanders staff in organizing as many canvass teams as humanly possible. BErnie volunteers in NY have been calling into early states since day one. So now its your turn to make calls into NY and identify the undecideds and Bernie leaners, we got the boots on the ground to take advantage of the voter ID work you all are doing by talking to those voters about Bernie.

Go to bernspark.com and donate, please fully fund this project. We’re at $263 and we need to get to $430.

You can help send Bernie volunteers into Chappaqua NY with these supercool buttons.

A little birdie told me we’re going to deliver Westchester County to Bernie !!

FEC guidelines on donating to Bernie crowdfunding

Roger Fox

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Saturday March 26, 2016 · 8:26 AM PDT

2016/03/26 · 08:26

Acting as a group

If you and other individuals act together as a group to conduct activities to influence a Federal election, the group may become a "political committee." In general, a group that raises or spends over $1,000 per year to influence Federal elections must register, keep records on financial transactions and file reports on the committee's activities.

If you are interested in forming a group to participate in Federal elections and anticipate raising or spending more that $1,000 during a calendar year, you should write or phone the Commission and request materials to register the group as a political committee.

Ben Yee of Shiftspark has created Bernspark.com as a platform for the online crowdfunding of Bernie Projects. This is how it works. Although a new entry into crowdfunding bernspark has already had an impact, specifically in Westchester NY, the home of Hillary Clinton.

Bernsparks first fully funding campaign was my Bernie Lit project. That lit was handed out at the Chappaqua Train Station on 6 or 7 occasions, and along with a press release, this yielded some great press. Then Westchester4Bernie volunteers started started knocking on doors before the first Field Staff came to NY.

Needless to say when the local staffer found out we were phone banking & canvassing using my database (Yes, I built my own VAN), had nice lit and nice home printed Spanish Lit, this person was floored.

Please consider donating to a bernspark project of your choice.

Donate to fund 500 Bernie Buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's backyard.

Roger Fox

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Friday March 25, 2016 · 1:40 PM PDT

2016/03/25 · 13:40

Our first crowd fund project raised over $468 for 10,000 pieces of 4 x 6 color glossy Westchester 4 Bernie Lit. (Seen here on the right). Hundreds of these Bernie Flyers have been handed out at the Chappaqua train station, right in Hillary’s hometown. For our efforts we got some great earned media. Phil Reisman of the Westchester Journal News wrote a great piece found here.

The Communications Workers of America endorsed Bernie in mid December, I gave Joe Mayhew of the CWA local 1103, 500 of these flyers for his membership to handout.

Our second crowd fund project will fund the purchase of 500 W4B buttons, printed at a union shop, they will cost $430. As of this morning we’ve raised $180.

Here’s our plan, roughly half of these buttons will go to canvassers on the ground, the other half will be sold for $3, the proceeds will go to funding 500 Westchester 4 Bernie lawn signs.

When we make voter ID calls, we generate a list of Bernie supporters. Then we filter the list for the residential streets that get a lot of traffic in the AM & PM rush hours. Every neighborhood has these shortcuts that feed into main commercial streets.

By putting lawn signs on these streets we avoid the visual clutter of lawn signs in all the favorite intersections. In a few weeks all of these major intersections will be filled with Trump & Hillary signs, and it makes no sense to add to the visual clutter. This tactic brings the best bang for the buck.

For every donation of $60 or more you will be mailed 3 W4B buttons as a bernspark PERK. Our deadline for the project is March 31st.

Roger Fox

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Sunday March 13, 2016 · 6:28 AM PDT

2016/03/13 · 06:28

The Communications Workers of America endorsed Bernie in mid December, I gave Joe Mayhew of the CWA local 1103, 500 of these flyers for his membership to handout.

Our second crowd fund project will fund the purchase of 500 W4B buttons, printed at a union shop, they will cost $430. As of this morning we’ve raised $140.

Here’s our plan, roughly half of these buttons will go to canvassers on the ground, the other half will be sold for $3, the proceeds will go to funding 1,000 Westchester 4 Bernie lawn signs.

For every donation of $60 or more you will be mailed 3 W4B buttons as a bernspark PERK. Our deadline for the project is March 21st.

Buy a Bernie button for a canvasser in Chappaqua NY, Hillary's home town.

Roger Fox

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Saturday March 12, 2016 · 12:44 PM PST

2016/03/12 · 12:44

Westchester NY is home to Hillary Clinton and with the NY primary less than 6 weeks away Westchester4bernie.org is prepping our canvass teams. Chappaqua is one of the first 3 towns we’re going into. Being a volunteer organization, sometimes getting basic supplies is difficult.

Our first crowd fund project raised over $500 for 10,000 pieces of 4 x 6 color glossy Bernie Lit. Our second crowd fund project will fund the purchase of 500 W4B buttons, printed at a union shop, they will cost $430.

In less than one week we have raised $100, nearly a quarter of the way. About half of these buttons will be sold for $3.00 to fund more buttons, the other half will be given to volunteer canvassers when they show up to a canvass event. You can insure that these volunteers are appropriately attired by donating to our crowdfund.

Please donate at our BernSpark.com page.

We're about to canvass Chappaqua NY. Buy my canvassers Westchester 4 Bernie Buttons

Roger Fox

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Thursday March 10, 2016 · 5:42 PM PST

2016/03/10 · 17:42

Dear Bernie Supporters, I bear the responsibility of organizing Westchester County for Bernie Sanders. I am a volunteer, I have built my own Voter Database for the entire state of NY, added a million and a half phone numbers and shared this database with 8 upstate organizers back in October. We started making calls to Westchester County voters for Bernie back in November, well before the current Bernie Dialer was available.

I have hosted 40 Bernie events, 3 of them Barnstorms & crowd funding 10,000 pieces of Bernie Lit for my awesome volunteers. !0,000 pieces of professionally printed lit at a union print shop.We’ve have established a presence at the Chappaqua train station since November, my awesome volunteers have been handing out this beautiful lit since December. And we’ve gotten some very nice press.

My first online crowd fund raised $468 dollars in about 2 weeks. This paid for 10,000 pieces of Bernie Lit. The vast majority of that money was donated by DKers like you.

Our phone bankers have hosted nearly 40 phone banks since November, 27 of them from January 25th thru March 1st. Westchester 4 Bernie volunteers have made over 9,000 calls into early states.

In about 2 weeks I am going to send volunteer canvassers into Hillary’s backyard, our first 3 target towns are Yonkers, New Rochelle and Chappaqua.

So many people in Westchester have asked me where they can get buttons, specifically Westchester 4 Bernie buttons. One volunteer (Anne) stepped up to organize this W4B button crowd fund that I am presenting to you, my fellow Bernie supporters.

I ask you my fellow DK Berniecrats, buy buttons for volunteers. Please donate as much as you can afford, and please share this dairy, getting massive numbers of eyes is the key to funding a project online and we need your help, all of you.

So heres the deal, the same union print shop that printed our lit, gave Anne a quote for 500, 3 inch buttons, we need $430 by March 21th, the deadline for the crowd fund.

Heres the link to the campaign page at bernspark.com

The FEC limits individuals expenditures to $1000, this is outside the $2700 max that one can donate to a candidate. SO this is a great way to help out Bernie volunteers if you have maxed out.

Any donation in excess of $60 gets a bernspark perk of 3 W4B buttons.

Please donate to give my awesome volunteers these very cool buttons.

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Bill Brennan for NJ Governor: Offshore Wind development NOW !

Political power at its most fundamental level

Ellison warned us 14 months ago

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Bernie Sanders employs Revolution Messaging, not for Trolling, but for Fund Raising.

Westchester 4 Bernie invades Chappaqua NY #InHerBackyard

Team Bernie You have donated $263 to W4B buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's back yard, finish it !

FEC guidelines on donating to Bernie crowdfunding

Donate to fund 500 Bernie Buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's backyard.

We've raised 1/3rd of the funds: bernspark crowdfund for Westchester 4 Bernie buttons for canvassers

Buy a Bernie button for a canvasser in Chappaqua NY, Hillary's home town.

We're about to canvass Chappaqua NY. Buy my canvassers Westchester 4 Bernie Buttons