Kansas Volunteers Needed Now! We need your help!
I need your help, folks! I am strictly running a grassroots campaign, fueled by volunteerism and helping hands from hundreds of volunteers throughout the 69 counties of the Kansas 1st Congressional District. Kansans want a change. Kansans are tired of the same old, same old rubberstamping smiling and affable congressman they have now. He gives free tax money and tax supported gifts to mega-profitable corporations and ill-advised wars, while simultaneously cutting funds to education, agriculture, health care, Medicare, veterans benefits and many other essential services and safety nets. His priorities are all wrong.
Our country is headed down the wrong path. Jerry Moran has rubberstamped all of Bush's wrong-headed plans. It's time we get our government back! We must right the wrongs before it is too late. Kansans are hurting and our government is not serving. While we lack the huge bank account that Jerry Moran has, we have the heart, the will and the determination to win this campaign. (Find out how by reading more...)
The outpouring of support for our campaign has been phenomenal! Our campaign telephone is ringing off the wall. Now, what we need is volunteers to help get our message out to even more voters in District 1. Can you help us?
Doorbelling & Canvassing!
We are looking for folks in every town who would be willing to spend at least a couple of hours calling on neighbors! To learn more about our "Doorbelling Events", please go to www.dollforcongress.org/action-doorbelling.html. There, you will be able to "sign up" on our "volunteer" form and also to read more about the doorbelling events. Please join us! We have a real chance to win this race, with your help. But, we cannot do it without you. You may also write to doll-for-congress@pohly.com if you are interested in learning more about doorbelling and canvassing. Or you can go to www.dollforcongress.org/volunteer.html to sign up. Help us!!!
Phone Banking!
We are also looking for folks to help us make phone calls to voters during October. We will be providing lists of registered voters to any and all volunteers who will help us with this important effort! It is actually a fun thing to do with a handful of friends and will only take a couple of hours of your time. If you are interested in learning more about our phone banking events, please write to doll-for-congress@pohly.com or go to www.dollforcongress.org/volunteer.html to sign up. We will have all the tools to make this easy for you. You'll have fun, we promise!
Lawn Signs Distribution!
We will be hoping to distribute lawn signs through out the District and particularly in the counties of Saline, Reno, Lyon, Ellis, McPherson, Barton, Dickinson, Ford, Geary, Marshall, Nemaha, and Rice. If anyone from these counties can make get some commitments from residents to display signs, please come to our office in Garden City to pick them up! If you can't make it down to get the signs, still we appreciate you getting neighbors willing to display them. Call us with how many commitments you have gotten and we will make sure the signs get to you for distribution. We want you to have signs for your community! If you have any questions about yard signs, please write to dollforcongress@cox.net or call 620-275-1750.
Flyer Distribution!
We have flyers on the internet that anyone can easily download and print out on their own laser printers! County chairs, supporters, and volunteers, please go to www.dollforcongress.org/docs/halfpage-flyer.pdf to see this flyer. Please help us by printing out some quantities for your communities. It will help greatly if you would be willing to plaster your town or neighborhood with these - on bulletin boards, at events, at meetings, on your neighbor's doors! We also have other campaign materials available here. We need your help!
Write e-mails to people - Tell them about our Website!
Please send people to our website! We need to get the word out to voters what a change in Washington will do for our country! The best page to send people to is: www.dollforcongress.org/families.html.
Write letters to editors!
We have lots of information at our website to help you to write letters to editors! We have email addresses of all the newspapers in the 69 counties, plus tips, talking points and ideas. Will you write a letter to your editor in support of our campaign? It will help tremendously to get the word out! Everything you need can be found at: www.dollforcongress.org/action-write.html.
Not a Kansan? Help us anyway! Help us with Donations!
A political change in Kansas will also serve the needs of Californian, New Yorkers and Hoosiers. A blue district in Kansas will make a huge difference in how our country repairs the damages done by this rubberstamping Congress. We will use every penny you send our way to help get the word out to voters in the 69 counties of District 1. We offer many methods of contributing - www.dollforcongress.org/contribute.html or our page at ActBlue.
Campaign Trail Update
For an update on our campaign schedule and appearances, please go to www.dollforcongress.org/schedule.html.
We just returned spending the last eleven days visiting Hutchinson, Topeka, and Dodge City. Our campaign had a booth at the State Fair. I talked with literally thousands of Kansans there who agree that we need a big change in the direction of our government. The people that stopped by our booth were overwhelmingly convinced that our current representative in Congress, Jerry Moran, just doesn't get it. He is not voing on bills that help working families and everyday citizens. He is giving tax-supported gifts to mega profitable corporations at a time when average Kansans are alarmed by the increases in gasoline, groceries, tuition and living expenses. Jerry Moran has rubberstamped George Bush's ill-advised priorities, including the invasion in Iraq.
Kansans are telling me that they agree that it is just plain wrong how Moran has cut funding to Medicare, Education and Agriculture. Citizens no longer want to give him a pass and the benefit of doubt. He has harmed our neighbors and particularly those that are the least able to speak out for themselves - like school children, senior citizens and disabled veterans. Jerry Moran has deposited $20,000 of pay raises to his own paycheck in the recent years even though our farmers are paying outrageous prices for fuel, equipment and supplies. Moran votes on legislation that cuts Veterans benefits and Medicaid.
It is time that we make Moran accountable for the votes he is casting. Enough is enough.
Folks, I need your help and I need your votes. As soon as you get me elected to Congress, I will work to undo the harm that Moran has done. I will right these wrongs. I will serve the people, not the powerful.
Thank you for taking the time to read my diary. If we can be of any assistance please contact us.
More information about How Our Current Congress is Harming Families here and more details about my 10-Point Plan to Restore America here.
Please contribute to help us give our government back to its rightful owners, the people, where it belongs.
Friends, I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your support and extra efforts,
John Doll, Democrat for Congress (Kansas First District)