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

[Caroline Yacoub]

Wow! Amazing! I wish I could have been there. Great work Valerie and everybody.
Caroline




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From: fred <fredd at freeshell.org>
To: Valerie Face <vdf at juno.com>
Cc: Gloria Purcell <gloria at extragalactic.net>; South SF Bay Discuss at CA Greens 
<sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>; Laura Wells <laura at laurawells.org>
Sent: Sun, October 3, 2010 1:42:53 AM
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Valerie's efforts re Laura Wells event

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
> 
> ~*~*~*~  Car-Free for 30 Years  ~*~*~*~
> 
> 
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