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I am gonna call our conversation yesterday with the folks from Voces de la Frontera  a success.

Voces is Wisconsin’s leading state-wide immigrant rights organization.  The advocacy arm of the group is Voces de la Frontera Action, and they are asking for support in funding a full-time elections organizer.

If you missed the post last night last night, check it out.  Q & A with Voces de la Frontera

Do we want to follow up with a Zoom in a couple of weeks?

The Voces folks are on board with that idea, so I if we are interested I can set that up.  The zoom would be 2 weeks out because this Sunday they are kicking off a 9-day March for Driver’s Licenses & Citizenship, walking from Milwaukee to Madison.

I would be interested in hearing more about the impact that having a full-time field organizer could have on the primaries and the election in Wisconsin for 2022.  And I would love to hear how the march goes, and about anything you guys want to know!

Zoom with Voces de la Frontera?

Interested in the zoom?   Please let us know in the comments, and also send me email to let me know.  Please include your nym in the email so I can connect the dots.

Voces de la Frontera Action

Goal Thermometer

A day or so after the zoom, we can have a thread where we talk and decide whether we want to try to fund their first full-time field organizer position.

Let me know if you are interested in the zoom!

Open thread.

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  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I don’t zoom.​
     

    ETA: How can you expect anything on this blog to attract attention from a thread about cats?

  6. 6.

    dnfree

    I’m not interested in zooming but I will set up a donation. I’m thinking that for their goal, it makes more sense to set up a recurring monthly donation, but how does that count toward the goal?  I would think steady income would be most effective for funding a position.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    @dnfree: The thing is, if they are going to be able to hire a field organizer, that has to happen quickly, probably starting the search in July.

    So recurring donations will help them with other things, but will not really help with funding a field organizer.

    I included the time line in last night’s post, I’ll see if I can copy it here.

    Timeline for Proposed Field Organizing Coordinator

    June 2021: Political director and organizing director will draft and finalize job description for field organizing coordinator.

    July 2021:Post job description on VDLF/VDLFA websites.

    Late July 2021/August 2021: Hire the organizing coordinator.  Coordinator begins to establish relationships with current leaders and helps maintain/grow our current relational voter program.

    End of November 2021: Field organizing coordinator will be fully trained on job responsibilities and duties and have a 2022 work plan drafted with goals and action steps.

    December 2021: Field organizing coordinator begins working on the spring election in 2022 to reach goals with minimal support from political director.

    Since the person in the new position (if it can be funded) doesn’t get paid all at once, I could check to see if recurring donations that specify the field organizer position could count toward the 45k needed for one year for the field organizer

    edit: In other words, they would need to know they either hand the cash in hand (through donations) or cash-in-hand plus enough monthly donations for a year that together would get to the amount required for the position.

    I’ll have a conversation with them about this.

  8. 8.

    Joy in FL

    I am interested. I will send you an email.

    Thank you for setting up these events. I learn a lot and feel more confident and informed because I hear from people who are doing the work and know what they are talking about.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Joy in FL:

    They really do. I was tremendously impressed with the thorough professionalism of both the folks from Four Directions a few weeks ago and the Voces de la Frontera crew last night.

  11. 11.

    Mousebumples

    I don’t really zoom either, but i really appreciate them taking the time to speak with us about all this – and you (WaterGirl) taking the time to organize all of this!

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SiubhanDuinne: Another group out of WI that I recommend highly is BLOC.  We have done a fundraiser here for them in the past, but they are always worth supporting.  Yes, I am pushing Wisconsin groups.  Sue me.

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    It’s great you folks are doing this. I’ll send my moral support. :-)

    ObOpenThread …

    Thread –

    NEW: If you’re waking up you’ve missed a truly sensational by election result.

    Lib Dems GAIN Chesham and Amersham. It’s been Conservative since 1974. It had a Tory majority of 16000+. Now a Lib Dem maj of *8028*.

    That’s a swing to the Lib Dems of 25.2%.

    — Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 18, 2021

    Wow.

    BoJo is a disaster. Starmer has been worthless, in the bits I’ve seen and heard of him (e.g. Prime Minister’s Questions). I guess the voters there felt the same way.

    (via nycsouthpaw)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: lol.

    Frankly, a good tagline for Dems across the country to give up Voces would be, “Help Us Fire Ron Johnson.” His seat is up in 2022. I’m hoping we’ll have a great Dem running against him. Though I’m intentionally taking the same approach i did for the 2020 Dem Presidential Primaries. Not picking a favorite yet, but lots of great Democratic voices crisscrossing the state will hopefully help us in the General. ?

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mousebumples: ​
      Yeah, I am holding off on picking a candidate. There are several good ones. Godlewski and Lasry have been the most aggressive so far, but I’ll wait and see.

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