Warnock and Ossoff’s win in Georgia inspired me to give my ALL to defeat Kevin McCarthy. It’s possible but it will take some out-of-the-box thinking, back-breaking work, and resources (money and volunteers) to reach every needed voter. I have been reading up on Stacey Abrams’ brilliant work to mobilize voters and protect their right to have their voices heard. (Do visit fairfight.com and support her efforts) I plan to use her model to mobilize voters in CA 23 but I need your help because it is going to take our whole village.
As I said in an earlier post, when I moved to Bakersfield, California, I began noticing the endemic poverty, high crime rate, lack of living-wage jobs, pollution, and poor health outcomes. So, when it came time to vote, I researched Kevin McCarthy. He has done little for the hard-working people of his district but has gamed the system to move up in Republican leadership and grab the money and power that follows. The hardworking people of the district deserve better.
To gain trust and spread my message of ‘deserved change’ to the voters, I need an army of volunteers from inside and outside of the district. My goal is to secure the votes needed to win by engaging the 62,000 low propensity Democratic voters through, what I like to call, voting counseling. Like Abrams, we are going to do extensive voter education, voter registration, and voter engagement. I need people to join me in becoming ‘voting counselors’ to assist those that struggle with the process.
Just getting registered voters that don’t vote, to vote won’t do it alone. I have a great campaign team that specializes in door-to-door groundwork. They have crunched the numbers and have determined there are thousands of progressive-leaning folks in CA 23 that need to be registered to vote. This discrepancy is apparent particularly in our communities of color. The demographics of the district have changed, the voting population does not reflect the new numbers.
The third part of our strategy is to reach the thirty percent (36,000) of NPP voters that can be swayed one way or another. They haven’t committed to a political party, but we think we can win them over with our message of hope, change, and representation. I plan to do targeted mail, town halls in their neighborhoods, and lots of door-knocking. They have never seen Kevin in the flesh and cannot do so because his office doors are locked, so I feel face-to-face with them will go a long way.
OK! This is the thing I hate to do the most: Ask for donations. But we have a critical FEC filing deadline on Thursday so if we want to be able to continue this fight, I know it has to be done. I believe we need at least two million dollars for the Primary and maybe ten times that for the General. It will be expensive but removing Kevin from power will change the whole dynamic of Trump’s hold on our country.
I hope you will join us in ‘taking this to the mattresses’, Godfather and Stacy Abrams style! My District and our country deserve better. I have been posting what I feel and know my district needs on DK. Check them out and please visit brunoforcongress.com and get involved.
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