UPDATES

Phonebanking Mon-Wed went well this week. We had 6 volunteers come in and make a total of 124 calls! Great job everyone! This week's rankings: 1st place: Mike Arms with 50 phonecalls! 2nd place: Ken Drier with 32 phonecalls! and 3rd place: Tiffany Lydon with 25 calls! Thanks so much everyone! Mike- wins the prize of the week!

Democrat Club meeting:~ The Kratovil front porch chat is coming up this Sunday (Oct 5th) and they'd really like a good showing. ~ Tuesday October 7th is the Kratovil/Harris Debate, as well as the local government debates, at Cecil College at 6:30 pm. If anyone in North East is willing to have a Presidential Debate Watch Party that evening, we may be able to get some more supporters at this local debate! ~Also, the Oct 11th Dinner Party for Sharon Weygand is going to be a night of fun, so join us to enjoy dinner and dancing with an AWESOME local band "How's My Hat" (they played at my and Kevin's Wedding!). ~ The Dem Club is doing literature drops/canvassing locally on Tues, Thurs, and Saturdays so if you're interested in helping out locally contact Pat Folk: 302-593-3576 or Alena Bandy: 410-392-6367. Election Day Poll Coverage: we still need help covering all the polls all day.

VP Debate: Joe rocked the debate! Sarah did better than expected because she had her notecards in front of her and she didn't have to answer specifics since there weren't any follow up questions, but overall it didn't seem to be a "vote changer". It was fun to watch and play "Palin Bingo". I won with the words: Alaska, Special Needs, Hockey Mom, Terrorist, and "Free Space".

THIS WEEKEND: is the last weekend for Voter Registration in PA. We need EVERYONE to help in PA if they can. The Coatesville Office (128 E Lincoln Hwy, Coatesville, PA 19320) needs lot of help and they requested that we send up as many people as possible. Anyone who would like to go on Saturday or Monday, please email me so I can try and get a group together. We're still sending the crew out on Sunday at our normal meeting time (12:30) and place (Acme parking lot in Big Elk Mall). I have a few people signed up to go and would love a few more. Also, I have someone who wants to go on Sunday but doesn't have a way of getting to Acme or back home so if someone is going and lives in Perryville, please let me know so we can try and carpool. If you have signed up to go, please email me and confirm. If you can't go out of the state on Sunday, we're having the Bridal Show in town from 1-5. We'd like to have a voter registration/information table out front of the HQ Email me if you're interested.

NEXT WEEK: Monday, we'll be in PA registering voters so the phonebanking from 3-9 will change to 5-9. Sorry for the inconvenience! Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be having some more phonebanking and Wednesday we'll have a VOTER REGISTRATION TABLE in front of the Elkton ACME from 4-8 pm (their busy time) and we CAN have Obama and other Democratic information out, but NO large signs about it. We don't have to be COMPLETELY bipartisan but they don't want us largely advertising our group. I think we can handle that!
~If anyone can think of a good high traffic area in the Rising Sun side of the county, let me know ASAP so we can try and get a table over there. MD's deadline for Voter Registration is October 14th and I just received a list of 28,000 people in CECIL COUNTY that are NOT registered to vote. We need to break into this list. If anyone is interested in going door to door registering voters, I'll have lists here for you to pick up and go through a neighborhood getting people to register. If anyone has any other ideas or ways we can quickly use this list, let me know!
~We're currently working on an event at Kilby Farm in Rising Sun (thank you Phyllis!) where we'll have a hayride, a bonfire, ice cream for sale and a voter registration table on Monday October 13th. I'm still working on the details but all input is appreciated!

NEXT MEETING: Friday Oct 10th: sign waving on the corner of Rte 272 & 40. We'll meet in the parking lot near Burger King at 6:15/6:20 and start the sign waving at 6:30. Wear your Obama shirt/pins/hats and bring any signs you may have. After the sign waving at 7:15, we'll meet at Woody's to get out in the public and go over everything we have coming up (especially the registration event on the 13th), and have some food, drinks, and socializing :).

HELP I NEED: I need help with Data Entry here at the Office for the calls we've been making to Cecil County Residents. I'm getting through some of it today, but I could really use some help next week. I also need help trying to get through the voter registration list of 28,000 Cecil Countians. I need ideas of how to get through that list (setting up tables, etc), and also help planning the event on October 13th. I need people to canvass/help with voter registration in PA this weekend and canvassing in PA next weekend, and I need people here phonebanking Mon-Wed. Anyone that can help, please email me.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
~I now have Obama/Biden lawn signs! I also have 5: 3XL t-shirts being sold at cost for $10, bumperstickers, signs, and cell phone/key ring/zipper pull chains, hand made by our own group member Donna Ward, available here. Come by or send your friends :)
~We have access to 5: 4x8 Obama signs. If there is interest (and donations) for the signs, we can get some, but I have to know soon-they cost $48/piece. We'll need a truck and 2 people to get them also :)
~I have copies of the "Democratic Herald" (the Democratic Club's newsletter) here at the HQ so be sure to pick up a copy and check it out. Mike Burns is the editor, and he did an awesome job with it!

Thank you all of you who have helped out in these past weeks! If you can spare any time this week and plan to come in, please let me know. To those of you who are have not been to any events yet, please join us! We're looking for help in all different areas and if you could spare even a 1/2 hour, we can find something for you to do! Don't forget- we have a CONTEST going on!! :)

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