Can We Look at This Differently?

Hello, everyone. I am mulling over the "money making" ventures my dear group of friends discussed for our District 5 School Board campaign.  I do not need ten BIG signs. I need one in front of Florida Decorating  on 192 and one in the front of our shop. I can handle that. I don't need to send out cards to absentee voters, even though it has worked very well for some. We can do absentee ballot, informational, follow up calls absolutely free. I will have enough cards going out in the mail when the time is right. I have feet to walk door to door on my Monday's off, and people have been very receptive to that so far. I can do that and will take any offers of help.

 

What I need is not money, it's votes. What I need is not financial donors, it's talkers.

 

Tonight, I realized I am not only running for a job on the school board I know I can do well, I am running for values I strongly believe in for campaigners, values that have become lost in a twisted campaign world of one dollar up. In order for my point to be valid, I do not need lots of financial donors, I need lots of votes.  We are taking our eyes off the ball by moving to a money focus. We need happy parties of people coming together to make decorative pledges promising to vote for me on Tuesday, August 26th. Prizes go to the best made pledges and to those who pledge to take someone to the polls with them.  It can be in the form of card games, scavenger hunts, wine and cheese parties, cookouts, whatever ( an aside, every time I type wine and cheese I type wind and cheese, first, then I have to correct it. lol ) . When someone signs a pledge, they give the party planner their phone number, text or email to follow up with reminders of their pledge, and they email or text back the minute they have voted.  Prizes and recognition could go to first voters, etc.

 

We all have our own circles of influence. Everyone who reads this, share it with your email friends and on Facebook. Ask your friends to share in this campaign. It will not just be my campaign, it will be OUR campaign. Everyone can help a good person get elected without it becoming a money contest.

 

My friends and family have been so incredibly helpful to me. I have reached the first part of this journey successfully because of all them and many of you, and I now have all of my signature cards completed. However, I have more to do to win this election. Will you help me with this? I am not asking for  money for me; I am asking for you to go out and play and have fun getting pledges for votes and voters to the polls, and stirring up a different kind of campaign that rejects the status quo. Wow! That looks somewhat cool in writing. I don't think I've ever written that expression, status quo.

 

 Let's get those talking parties going! I need your votes!!!!   Vote for Linda Oliverio,

August 26th. THANK YOU!



 

It's O.K. to see things differently.

Peace. Love, Linda