Hello fellow Democratic patriots!
In my last installment of this series, I described the founding and work of Frederick Blue, a cross-section of Democratic activists in Frederick County, Maryland working to build a strong, grassroots-oriented local Democratic Party infrastructure that can then be replicated by any motivated group of Dems anywhere in the country (and I know you’re all out there!). Well, it’s time for another progress report.
We are busily approaching and meeting with donors for the project, and have identified a number of high-level and grassroots-level potential financial supporters. We’re arranging face-to-face meetings as well as mail solicitations. We don’t need a prohibitive amount of money to get this effort off the ground, so we’re simply concentrating on presenting a convincing case. We’ve already won over several members of our local Central Committee.
We will also be undertaking a local media campaign to publicize our new website and blog (the Frederick Blueprint) — one of the members of our team works in the field. We’ve got eight writers lined up for the blog, with a few more on our list of “possibles”, and we’re planning on establishing a presence in local newspapers, TV, and talk radio. We’ve developed some print ads that are all but guaranteed to draw some attention — suffice it to say that the ads project strength, and aren’t lacking for attitude. Stay tuned — we are not your father’s Democratic Party. (But we might be your grandfather’s!) The publicity campaign will start going full swing in a couple of weeks.
The website itself has gone beyond the design phase and now we’re working on content. This is going to be the spiffiest political-party site in the state. We’re on the move!
Frederick Blue will be presenting an update of its effort to the United Democrats of Frederick County on April 3rd. If you’re in the area, don’t hesitate to come on down to see what we’re all about.
Think nationally, act locally!
Till the next time,
Tony Soltero
