[GPSCC-chat] Valerie's efforts re Laura Wells event

[fred]

Wow, Valerie, 129 phone calls are a lot of rings.  THANK YOU!

Regarding the event on Sept.30:
- Twenty-two people, including special guest Laura Wells attended.  (Two 
or three "strangers" and several others who are not part of the regular 
"Green Chorus" made up about 1/3 of the group.  Also, several Green 
regulars from San Mateo were in attendance.

Considering the amount of invitations that were made and the publicity 
that was generated, the size of the attendance to hear and meet the 
Green Party Candidate for Governor was embarrassingly scant.  Perhaps 
more would have shown up if notices to be published had been sent to the 
news media.

- Laura covered much ground in her talk.  (She is very interesting and 
articulate.)  One thing she stressed was that she will continue 
campaigning as a candidate for Gov. throughout the next four years.

- There was a good sense of Green energy floating around.

- Tian Harter deserves much credit for printing and distributing 350 - 
500 attractive invitation leaflets around the Mountain View - Palo Alto 
area. Approximatly 100 of the Willow Park Condo complex units were also 
leafleted. Thanks also  to Caroline Yacoub who leafleted at the 
Sunnyvale Farmers Market.  Then too, to Jim Doyle for his promotions and 
his soliciting and recording ID information from guests. And, Kudos to 
Dana and Gerry for the audio equipment.

- Gloria Purcell, former GP candidate for State Assembly added  much 
interest serving as the ad hoc MC for much of the ado.   (By the way, 
the sweatshirts she donated and auctioned off brought in $80  for 
Laura's campaign kitty)

-  One of the brightest aspects of the whole evening was the great 
GENEROSITY of those who were in attendance.  By the end of the evening 
the crowd contributed  more than
$1,500 to Laura's campaign.  (Greens ain't tight.)

Valerie, and others of of you who couldn't attend, that's a lot of what 
happened last Thursday.

For only 22 people who made the event, there was a lot of green hay that 
was harvested -
both materially and ethereally.

That's it, in a coconut shell.

All the best,

Fred




- Then of course, thanks to all who attended.

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On 10/2/10 3:15 PM, Jim Doyle wrote:
> Valerie is to be commended for her efforts.
> Just look at all that she did for the event.
> Here is a copy of her email to me.
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I'm sorry for the delay in responding.  I've been feeling pretty bad 
> most of the week, so I did not go to the Farmers Market last Friday 
> after all, and I delayed making phone calls for a while.
>
> I did eventually make calls to 94085, 94086 and part of 94087 with the 
> following results:
>
> busy: 8
> disconnected: 22
> left message on answering machine/voicemail: 54
> left message w/human: 4
> maybe/will try to attend: 4
> moved out of CA: 1
> no answer: 8
> not available to attend: 14
> wrong number: 14
> --------------------------------
> Total: 129
>
> I also posted information about the event on a few online events 
> sites: Yahoo, sanjose.com, Yelp and Zvents.
>
> I did try to go last night, but my first bus was delayed, so I missed 
> my connection with the second bus.  After checking my other options at 
> that point, I determined that I would get there pretty late and I 
> might as well stay home.
>
> I hope that the event was a success and that Laura got her message out 
> to more people and got some good donations.  I will mail her the 
> donation that I intended to give last night.
>
> Best wishes,
> Valerie
>
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