Chop Wood, Carry NC 8/21
Meet Jeff Jackson! And me!
Hey, Team NC!
I’ve got another super exciting invitation for you that I forgot to mention yesterday!
On Monday of next week I am speaking at a fundraiser for the Mecklenberg County Dem Party—and Rep. Jeff Jackson will be the other speaker! He’s also running to be the state’s Attorney General! I LOVE him!
This event seeks to raise money so the Mecklenberg Dems can hire more staffers to handle the huge surge in volunteers they’ve seen since Kamala Harris became the candidate. Like, thousands of new people! It’s amazing, but right now they don’t have enough paid staff to onboard everyone!
You’ll also get to hear from Anderson Clayton, the spectacular young chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, and Drew Kromer, the also-amazing young chair of the Mecklenberg County Dems.
The event is sponsored by All In For NC, Swing Left Peninsula, BR50KLYN and a bunch of other awesome folks who know that the road to flipping North Carolina goes right through Mecklenberg County!
Register at https://join.meckdems.org/CA and/or donate at https://donate.meckdems.org/CA.
Really hope to see many of you there!
Jess
Jessica, Thanks for doing this. Jeff is my current House Rep and will make a great AG. I 💙 Jeff Jackson!! And Anderson Clayton is a ball of energy and always gets me fired up!🔥🔥🔥
We really need to GOTV in my home county of Mecklenburg. It's the key to flipping NC for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. And we absolutely need to defeat the MAGA weirdos in the statewide Council of State races starting from the top with Mark Robinson. Plus we have some important state legislature races in Meck County that could break the veto-proof GOP majority in both house and senate.
I donated & registered to attend Zoom Monday evening!! My husband & I are new to Charlotte as of 1st of this yr, but it feels a lot to me like Denver & CO in 2020…very purple!
My 2 cents of feedback…your team definitely needs more paid staffers so I’m glad to see this fundraiser!! I tried to engage here locally, got bombarded w/ emails about phone banking & such but no one showed up in the Volunteer Intro Zoom calls etc. I gave up bc I couldn’t connect w/ any live person to even know where or how to begin to support the grass roots, feet on the street, fingers dialing phones efforts.
One other point of feedback…with newly infused energy & interest due to the shift at the top of the Dem ticket…and the direct path thru CLT MC to flip NC blue…it would be really invigorating to have a face-to-face meetup for those of us in Charlotte trying to do our part in this fight to reclaim Democracy. Zoom has its place - but remote everything sucks when that’s 80% of work life these days! 😟 I think part of the Harris-Walz energy is the feeling of honest connection between real people & having empathy for each other.