1) effort needs to go into stopping the gQp gerrymandering.. It is obvious when you know at that map that cutting out Saratoga, Watertown (and even Albany) is what makes this a red district
2) START NOW, start asking for equal footing. Every time (EVERY f-ing TIME) I saw an article about pos_tfnKKK taking credit for a bill she voted against, my thought was - - > the lead to that story should be Paula Collins, her party brought the money
2a) that is to say, you need to have a media presence, one that demands during an election reporting should be on both candidates (fairly and equally) and include you in stories.
3) Your staff should be following the media (and this could be crowd sourced) and call them out in their bias coverage.
4) I have suggested this to other ny21 dem candidates... start your librarian brigade. And create a page: liespos_tfnKKKtells.com that you can point to that has fact checked her lies
5) there has been 10 potential candidates for the democrat representation in ny21. They are spread out in the district.. Tedra Cobb to Aaron Woolf... along with people like Katie Wilson (Keene), Patrick Nelson, Emily Martz (Saranac Lake) = https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_21st_Congressional_District_election,_2020
they should be on your campaigning team.. i.e. offering support in where they live
6) maybe you can't convince morons ... I look at the hmpy trmPEDOphile supporters.. Ask most any of them, why the support a convicted felon who colluded with Russia and tried to over throw democracy and whatever their 'reason' is it is wrong. As close as they get is they want to piss off democrats... and they do a good job of that, while voting against their own interests
Thanks, Edward. 1) I think we are now stuck with the district lines until the next census.
2) I have asked for "equal footing" or "equal time". The incumbent, unfortunately, prevails. 2a) We finally got media presence after I did the collaborative appearance with Lev Parnas. Until then, my press releases fell flat. All of them. Dozens upon dozens of them. By the end, I was really happy with the candidate profiles that the press did. I wish we could have had that kind of coverage from as far back as February.
3) We follow them. We call them out. See 2) and 2a), above.
4) I like the librarian brigade idea. I also know that people did not vote according to reason or logical argument. They voted from an emotional place.
5) I have reached out to prior candidates. Only two had conversations with me. People run and then they move back into their lives. You might think that "they should be on [my] campaigning team." They do not want to be.
I am SO very sorry you didn’t make it. Jim Zecca- all I know is he is an asshat had people putting up her signs in med August. Also wouldn’t let me post some facts about her nay votes that she claimed she supported - on
Facebook page people, places and opinions of Rome.
You know- I’ve heard some of those apps for voter outreach- not sure what all are but one thing I know for sure is that the auto dialers are a VERY BAD IDEA. I was “helping?” Anthony Brindisi’s campaign for reelection to House in 2020- while using one of those numbers- a couple of people I reached asked me who I was, one name, another name or my name- I apologized for disruption on behalf of campaign and I didn’t do even one more- If this is the sort of thing you mean hereI Spoke, other weird names… Anyway- I hope you and I are still healthy with roofs over our heads and still have whatever little money we have now Hugs with tears
WOW! Such an interesting post!!! I hope state Dem leaders are reading this and taking notes. As an older rural volunteer in NY-21, I found VAN lacking and miniVAN (I think miniVAN is the the cell phone app version) useless. First, when I was out driving on back roads, I had no cell phone service. MiniVan was of no benefit. Occasionally, using Votebuilder (NGPvan) on my laptop, I could create lists, print them out, and carry the wad of papers in hand or in my car. I never used the questions/responses on the app. I could not input data in the app while out in the field. 2nd, in NY-21 many volunteers are older uncomfortable with the technology. 3rd, in my town. a third of homes are summer or weekend residences. There's little use going door to door. Could the app perhaps help in these situations?
Yes, NGPvan is built for urban canvassers not us rural folks!
How about a program for rural driving to minimize mileage and gas? I drive 5 miles to one home and another 5 miles to another. Lists from the county election commissioner and Google Docs are definitely more helpful, more accurate and more up to date.
I applaud your announcement today. You said you would be in it for the long haul and you truly meant it! Thank you.
you start to think that the democrats (which I am one of), give up on rural America... then wonder how did they lose.
It is weird how democrats vote for the common (wo)man (CHIPS, Build Back Better, etc), but cuddle up to corporations
but then that is our world... not the best analogy, but in 1980's I could see most of the up and coming bands in a 60 mile radius. Now if I want to see a new band, I have to go to NYC, Montreal, Buffalo... And I could see the bands for $20, because it was in a bar (not a mega stadium, where they were the opening act for a big band -- and I would be paying $240+)..
right now, democrats are depending on stadium tours (so are the repubicans, but they have fox, oan and newsmax.. and a lot of vblogs funded by republicans)
Those stadium tours raised dollar$ for the dems... and it cost them many elections
Thanks, Pamilia28. I don't have 10 years to do that. And what will happen to our leadership after another 10 years?
Remember: the only reason I got into this race in February 2024 is because there was no other candidate who seemed likely to get the signatures to get on the ballot.
I wish your thoughts were true, but there is evidence it isn't.
Exhibit A: pos_tfnKKK
she has never lived in ny21, in fact, I dare say in the last four years she hasn't spent more than two months here... and most of that was so her son could drive his little tractor around and pretend to be a commoner.
Exhibit B: Tedra Cobb
She ran twice, she has lived in ny21 for more than 10 years. I followed her campaign and it was clear she understood the issues and the people of the district far better than pos_tfnKKK... she lost twice.
1) effort needs to go into stopping the gQp gerrymandering.. It is obvious when you know at that map that cutting out Saratoga, Watertown (and even Albany) is what makes this a red district
2) START NOW, start asking for equal footing. Every time (EVERY f-ing TIME) I saw an article about pos_tfnKKK taking credit for a bill she voted against, my thought was - - > the lead to that story should be Paula Collins, her party brought the money
2a) that is to say, you need to have a media presence, one that demands during an election reporting should be on both candidates (fairly and equally) and include you in stories.
3) Your staff should be following the media (and this could be crowd sourced) and call them out in their bias coverage.
4) I have suggested this to other ny21 dem candidates... start your librarian brigade. And create a page: liespos_tfnKKKtells.com that you can point to that has fact checked her lies
5) there has been 10 potential candidates for the democrat representation in ny21. They are spread out in the district.. Tedra Cobb to Aaron Woolf... along with people like Katie Wilson (Keene), Patrick Nelson, Emily Martz (Saranac Lake) = https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_21st_Congressional_District_election,_2020
they should be on your campaigning team.. i.e. offering support in where they live
6) maybe you can't convince morons ... I look at the hmpy trmPEDOphile supporters.. Ask most any of them, why the support a convicted felon who colluded with Russia and tried to over throw democracy and whatever their 'reason' is it is wrong. As close as they get is they want to piss off democrats... and they do a good job of that, while voting against their own interests
Thanks, Edward. 1) I think we are now stuck with the district lines until the next census.
2) I have asked for "equal footing" or "equal time". The incumbent, unfortunately, prevails. 2a) We finally got media presence after I did the collaborative appearance with Lev Parnas. Until then, my press releases fell flat. All of them. Dozens upon dozens of them. By the end, I was really happy with the candidate profiles that the press did. I wish we could have had that kind of coverage from as far back as February.
3) We follow them. We call them out. See 2) and 2a), above.
4) I like the librarian brigade idea. I also know that people did not vote according to reason or logical argument. They voted from an emotional place.
5) I have reached out to prior candidates. Only two had conversations with me. People run and then they move back into their lives. You might think that "they should be on [my] campaigning team." They do not want to be.
6) Totally agree.
I am SO very sorry you didn’t make it. Jim Zecca- all I know is he is an asshat had people putting up her signs in med August. Also wouldn’t let me post some facts about her nay votes that she claimed she supported - on
Facebook page people, places and opinions of Rome.
You know- I’ve heard some of those apps for voter outreach- not sure what all are but one thing I know for sure is that the auto dialers are a VERY BAD IDEA. I was “helping?” Anthony Brindisi’s campaign for reelection to House in 2020- while using one of those numbers- a couple of people I reached asked me who I was, one name, another name or my name- I apologized for disruption on behalf of campaign and I didn’t do even one more- If this is the sort of thing you mean hereI Spoke, other weird names… Anyway- I hope you and I are still healthy with roofs over our heads and still have whatever little money we have now Hugs with tears
I am forwarding this to my husband, who is a huge techie. Maybe he can figure something out.
WOW! Such an interesting post!!! I hope state Dem leaders are reading this and taking notes. As an older rural volunteer in NY-21, I found VAN lacking and miniVAN (I think miniVAN is the the cell phone app version) useless. First, when I was out driving on back roads, I had no cell phone service. MiniVan was of no benefit. Occasionally, using Votebuilder (NGPvan) on my laptop, I could create lists, print them out, and carry the wad of papers in hand or in my car. I never used the questions/responses on the app. I could not input data in the app while out in the field. 2nd, in NY-21 many volunteers are older uncomfortable with the technology. 3rd, in my town. a third of homes are summer or weekend residences. There's little use going door to door. Could the app perhaps help in these situations?
Yes, NGPvan is built for urban canvassers not us rural folks!
How about a program for rural driving to minimize mileage and gas? I drive 5 miles to one home and another 5 miles to another. Lists from the county election commissioner and Google Docs are definitely more helpful, more accurate and more up to date.
I applaud your announcement today. You said you would be in it for the long haul and you truly meant it! Thank you.
you start to think that the democrats (which I am one of), give up on rural America... then wonder how did they lose.
It is weird how democrats vote for the common (wo)man (CHIPS, Build Back Better, etc), but cuddle up to corporations
but then that is our world... not the best analogy, but in 1980's I could see most of the up and coming bands in a 60 mile radius. Now if I want to see a new band, I have to go to NYC, Montreal, Buffalo... And I could see the bands for $20, because it was in a bar (not a mega stadium, where they were the opening act for a big band -- and I would be paying $240+)..
right now, democrats are depending on stadium tours (so are the repubicans, but they have fox, oan and newsmax.. and a lot of vblogs funded by republicans)
Those stadium tours raised dollar$ for the dems... and it cost them many elections
Thanks, Pamilia28. I don't have 10 years to do that. And what will happen to our leadership after another 10 years?
Remember: the only reason I got into this race in February 2024 is because there was no other candidate who seemed likely to get the signatures to get on the ballot.
Who will run?
I wish your thoughts were true, but there is evidence it isn't.
Exhibit A: pos_tfnKKK
she has never lived in ny21, in fact, I dare say in the last four years she hasn't spent more than two months here... and most of that was so her son could drive his little tractor around and pretend to be a commoner.
Exhibit B: Tedra Cobb
She ran twice, she has lived in ny21 for more than 10 years. I followed her campaign and it was clear she understood the issues and the people of the district far better than pos_tfnKKK... she lost twice.