From party-planner and GOTV goddess CaseyL:
The Seattle GOTV Meetup yesterday went very well. H E showed up with a green balloon (Yay, H E !) and I had made a table sign, so people could and did find us easily.
Attending were:
H E Wolf
CaseyL
thalarctosMaritimus plus one (lurker)
Opiejeanne and Mr. OpiejeanneNot a bad turnout, for a meetup where we’d be putting people to work!
There was of course a lot of social chatter, and then we got down to business. Thanks to the tips suggested by PostcardsToVoters, plus H E’s amazing organizational skills and motivational talk, we got 18 postcards done and mailed – and sent folks home with postcards and stamps and information on how to sign up at the site to get addresses.
I should also say that Elliott Bay Brewery was very friendly and helpful, letting us into an area not usually open until later in the day so we could push tables together, set up our impressive piles of Stuff, and put up the table sign AND the balloon!
We didn’t get many photos, as we were more focused on socializing/working, but here is what we do have.
thalarctosMaritimus
Opiejeanne and H E Wolf
Mr. Opiejeanne
H E (aka Zorro!) Hard at work
It was fun, it was productive, and we’re gonna do it again!
Dorothy A. Winsor
I love that you combined a meet-up and postcard writing.
JPL
What a great idea.
Baud
Good people doing good things. A nice way to end a miserable day.
gwangung
Well, hell…totally spaced on this…
Maybe next time…
H.E.Wolf
CaseyL is a *great* collaboratrix! :-) She also has all the party-planning skills that I lack, so I was able to focus on my core skill of printing out documents.
It was a lot of fun making this happen, and our pleasure was quadrupled by the 4 other GOTV deities who joined us at the event. Many thanks to you all!
Note to CaseyL: I mailed all the postcards today at the same P.O. where we’d purchased stamps. The clerk recognized me (and our stamps) and said jubilantly, “Getting Out the Vote!!” when I handed her the stack.
H.E.Wolf
You’ll be most welcome, any time!
zhena gogolia
Very cool!
MomSense
Awww, look at all the beautiful Jackals.
Mike J
Wish I could have made it.
H.E.Wolf
There’ll be a next time; and it would be great to see you.
CaseyL
At the risk of sounding all Alfonse-and-Gaston, I couldn’t have done this without H.E. She first had the idea, is a great energizer/motivator, and a lot of fun to work with.
@H.E.Wolf: You are a GOTV postcard rock star!
@gwangung,: @Mike J: As H. E. said, we will be doing this again, and we’d be delighted if you could make it!
That goes for anyone in the Seattle area who couldn’t make it Sunday. The more the merrier – and, bonus, the food and drink at Elliott Bay Brewery is really, really good.
ETA: Not that we have to do it again there, but it’s a very decent venue. Maybe a little less music and more lighting.
Patricia Kayden
Hard working folk! Great idea to combine work with play.
Dan B
I spaced out as well ;<( I’m trying to figure out how to get a reminder from my phone without having it ding every time I get an email. But!! My Pets of Balloon Juice calendar arrived at last so I’ve got a physical (prehistoric) method of saving dates.
Missed you.. Next time hopefully.
Another Scott
Thanks for doing this – it’s important! And the pictures and the report. :-)
I did some cards in the previous cycle from our own PostcardPatriot – MazeDancer. Sending cards really is a good way to channel some energy into something productive. I’ll have to get going again soon.
Cheers,
Scott.
Lapassionara
How fortunate you are, to have Opiejeanne and Mr Opiejeanne in your town. We had a great time meeting them when they came through St Louis. And if they come back, we will have another great time.
opiejeanne
It was fun, and my niece is now talking about doing this.
For those who spaced out on Sunday, if we had your contact info we could remind you.
Mnemosyne
Yay! I still have a ton of blank postcards left from 2018 (I accidentally bought the 100 pack on Etsy), so I should get back to doing that this year.
chopper
sorry i missed it, my kids got me sick this weekend and i didn’t wanna be sneezing it all over y’all.
eclare
Awesome!
Yutsano
Well…sounds like I need to be making plans here! I’m aiming for the end of next month.
But I have more exciting news. Hopefully next week I’ll be completing an application to get a job back in the Seattle area. Will keep y’all posted but the odds are pretty good!
thalarctosMaritimus
@Yutsano: Hooray!
CaseyL
@Yutsano: IIRC, you were so excited to get the job you have, and to relocate. Were you always planning to come back to Seattle, or did you find out you missed the place more than you thought?
@Lapassionara: Yes, we are. But I do envy them that trip they took cross-country, meeting Jackals in other cities.
Sab
@Yutsano: When did you leave Seattle? I thought you had been there for years.
gwangung
@CaseyL:
@opiejeanne:
Elliot Bay is one of my go-to places….
All I can say I was deep into rewrites…I have most of my cast and they sorta want to have a script they can dig into….
Bumper
I’d like to come to the next one if schedules allow.
H.E.Wolf
Yay! All members of the Bumper family always welcome!
(Yutsano and gwangung and chopper, and anyone else who’s been considering an appearance, it’d be great to see all y’all at a future meetup.)
ETA fixed some formatting and syntax.