I went off the deep end, after swearing off campaigns after 2010, I'm now chest deep in my 14th campaign since 2004. So I put up a website westchester4bernie.org, got a NY state voter database for Westchester County, with no phone numbers. A Volunteer wrote a program to scrape phone numbers from White Pages & the Yellow pages, at a 42% hit rate.
2 Weeks ago during the national conference call with organizers, we broke up into state calls and cause I had created so many Bernie events I was called on to speak. Since then Syracuse and Binghamton for Bernie have contacted me and want help getting phone numbers for call lists. So we're doing this BERNing the Metro North thing. We go to train stations and flyer. Its easy and fun for the new volunteer and then we move them on to phone banking or door knocking. But I'm printing most of the lit, a quarter age flyer printed on both sides. I've spent over $150 on ink since September.
About 92 people have volunteered since Sept. 16th. All kinds of people have started to chip in, a videographer that edits vids, graphic artist, IT, Programmers, webdesign, Data entry. A guy that protested the Vietnam war and was SDS. And a college kid came to me with a thumb drive with a statistical analysis of the NY 2008 & 2014 elections, a freaking gold mine. We had an awesome debate watch party at the Yonkers Brewery, 30 people showed up, we had Bernie swag packs for the first 3 debate bingo winners. Heres the post with pictures on the W4B web site.
http://www.atdes.com/...
Anyway, we need folks to chip in a minimum of $20 in this bernspark crowd funding campaign. $467.08 gets us 10,000 pieces of nice 4x6 color glossy lit for Westchester County printed at a union printshop, Aligraphics.com. So far we've raised $80 and someone pledge $30 cash.
https://bernspark.com/...
Our volunteers are stepping up and they deserve professionally printed Bernie Lit. 10,000 pieces will allow us to ramp up operations, the campaign is considering contracting out to a printshop, but thats just talk so far, we need lit now, not in January. The revolution will not be televised, it will be live....
#EnoughIsEnough
5:23 PM PT: Up to $160 so far thank you.