Chop Wood, Carry NC 4/19

Hey, Team NC!

Some excellent upcoming volunteer opportunities for you!

First, I HIGHLY recommend attending All In For North Carolina’s monthly meeting. This is THE group to join if you truly want to help us win in NC. Here’s the details on the next one:

Break the Gerrymandered Supermajority: Meet NC House Candidates

AINC Monthly Meeting
Monday, April 29, 4 - 5pm EDT 

Mad that the Rep. Tricia Cotham-enabled Republican supermajority gerrymandered in ways that probably give Republicans three seats in Congress they don’t deserve, seats that they don’t hold now under fair, court-ordered maps?

Meet the people who will break that Republican supermajority in the NC House and protect democracy, abortion rights, the environment and public schools.

Speakers: 

• House Democratic Leader Rep. Robert Reives (HD 54)

• Moderator Maryli Seacrest, The States Project, Regional Political Director

• Democratic candidates Dante Pittman (HD 24), Bryan Cohn (HD 32) and Nicole Sidman (HD 105)

SIGN UP HERE.

But wait there’s more!

All In for North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County Phone Banks

AINC’s three phone banks (below) are reaching almost 1000 people each week - making calls to simply invite people to social events to hopefully create a community of future volunteers.

Salient Stats:

On Sunday, April 14, 30 callers made 973 calls in under two hours, connecting with 142 people and leaving 476 messages! The script? “Let’s gather at Mr. Charlie’s Restaurant.” Low key, soul food. People were interested! From caller Marlene: “I found it to be a very moving night, for the conversations I had and the impact these calls had.”

Excited caller comments:

Just talked with the kindest gentleman. He thought the event was tonight so he declined, then I said it was on Thursday, and he was thrilled! He may be busy but I sent him the registration form from my email, and put his email in the script.

And:

OMG - I just got another yes! Like full on - “yes, that sounds great” Honestly, this never happens for me. And I have been doing this for YEARS!

Join their fun—and effective—phone banks to recruit volunteers for the Democratic Party of all-important Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Sundays, 6-8 P EDT Sign up here.

Wednesdays 6-8PM Sign up here.

And if you need some further motivation, please read this article about what NC’s (and other states’) draconian abortion ban is leading to. Trigger warning: upsetting as hell. We have to beat them.

But we don’t agonize. We organize. So let’s do that.

More soon,

Jess