Updated 1.18.10 at 10:16 a.m. CST
The biggest need by the Martha Coakley campaign is in-person volunteers in MA helping to knock on doors and make calls from the office.
Right now, we need to put our policy differences and attitudes about Obama aside, and protect Teddy Kennedy's seat.
We can provide the grassroots support so badly needed in Massachusetts right now. So if you can go to Massachusetts in the next three days, this diary is to help you facilitate travel arrangements and logistics once there.
Can you go to Massachusetts for one day before Tuesday? Can you help someone get there? See the diary below.
(I am just a volunteer; I have a lot of experience coordinating out-of-state volunteers.)
People power can help get this done. If you can go, let's help facilitate others to go to MA too. Have friends who need help going to MA? Send them here.
Have a Ride / Need a Ride
If you are going or want to go, please state in the comments from where to where. We'll keep tabs here. Shifts are available statewide. Tell us if you are going...
To Boston
To Marshfield
To Abington
To Quincy
To Andover
To Western MA
* Frederick Clarkson has tips about events in Western MA for folks in upstate NY and CT.
List of shifts available in MA on Sunday HERE.
List of shifts available in MA on Monday HERE.
List of shifts available in MA on TUESDAY, ELECTION DAY HERE.
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Have Housing / Need Housing
If you can go for more than one day, or offer housing, please state as such in the comments.
* rlk has housing available in Brookline.
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Have Rental Car / Need Rental Car
If you have airline or credit card miles that can be donated for rental cars to help canvassers coming from big cities, please reply below. Similarly, if you can go but for lack of a vehicle, say so below.
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Have Bus Fare / Need Bus Fare
* Russ emailed to say he needs help with bus fare from NYC to Springfield. He is an experienced campaigner happy to knock doors!
If you are coming from New York or a big city and need financial support to take a bus to Boston, please reply in the comments. Kossacks are responsible for coordinating their own fare sharing offline. |
** If you are reading this and you aren't a Kos member but want to help, email me at the address listed here and I'll plug you in. **
We've got four days to go, and we need feet on the ground in MA. So if you're in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut (Go UConn!), Rhode Island, or New York, we need you to consider taking a day trip.
Please go. Teddy's seat is worth one day from all of us.