Cposted at Kos
So, yesterday we heard about a challenge issued by the County ‘Young Repubs’ to the Dems to field a bowling team for a Big Bro/Sis funder. The idea is you put a team together, get people to pledge and the competition is not the bowling but who raises $$$ for charity. Of course, they didn’t contact us directly and only gave us a week to field a team and raise at least $250. Oh, and their age limit for the Young R’s is, get ready…40. Plus I’m pretty sure there’s really only 4-5 people in their club. So, we weren’t even sure if we should bother…..
But then, D essentially said, WTF. And how long did it take us?
One night. we passed the hat at our monthly meeting and raised $550 on the spot and I’m pretty sure we have a team (of under 30 thank you)..
To put this in context, we get 50-80 people at our monthly mtgs and the average age is well above 40. We’re in the process of turning our county blue even though we have fewer Dems than R’s or unaffliated. I’ve written about this county before and this is just one more example of if we can do it, anyone can. A local organization that can generate a phonebank and local support for leg candidates is what we need everywhere. That provides the foundation (and competition) for statewide and federal level races. Oh, and if you care to see my brand new ActBlue page:
http://www.actblue.com/list/philinmaine
