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

[Laura Wells for Governor]

Hi all - (pls forward to listserve which will probably stop my  
email....)

I'm flagging everyone's emails to read in their entirety later (when  
we're in the Win With Green in 2014 phase! after the press of campaign  
demands in these final weeks), but having skimmed them, I wanted to  
add a quick note to say:

THANK YOU EVERYONE!    It was inspiring to me to be with you all, and  
Valerie, I sure did miss you and so it's nice to hear that you were  
actually on your way. I like your "Car-free for 30 years."  Since my  
main transportation method is Bikes, Buses, and Buddies, I have  
experience with buses not arriving.

Another world is possible!
Laura

Laura Wells
Green Party Candidate for Governor
P.O. Box 10727, Oakland, CA 94610

www.LauraWells.org



On Oct 3, 2010, at 1:42 AM, fred wrote:

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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