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1.09.2005
CCC Meeting Minutes
Those in Attendance: Cindy Asrir (NE), Jo Chamberlain (CA), Susan Fawcett (MI), Amy Heart (WI), Brent McMillan (DC), Tom Sevigny (CT), Rob Tufts (MD), Jen Walling (IL)
Absent: Jane Hunter (NJ), Ross Mirkarimi (CA), Jason Neville (LA), David Silva (LC)
Facilitator: Amy
Notetaker: Brent
Approved Meeting Minutes from 12-12-04.
1. Brent's Position Discussion
Brent is currently working on three fundraising mailings. One is to the Cobb/LaMarche donor list. This list is of those who donated to the Cobb/LaMarche campaign but haven't donated to national before. Two will be to the Ohio Recount list once secured. Three is to candidates and donors to those candidates in 2004 who haven't donated to national before.
He will also be approaching potential large donors.
We will need to contact the State Associates in February in order to gather the list of candidates declared for 2005 so far. Brent will need the Committees help on this. We sent out a notice around the end of February of 2004 to the State Associates followed by Brent contacting each State Associate by either phone or email. This year if the Mentors could do this it would be a great help.
We moved the personnel call to Mondays at 6:00 PM EST.
2. Resources Subcommittee
A. Develop new application for resources.
Jen sent out a draft to subcommittee members. Hopefully by the next call there will be something to approve.
B. Compile feedback received from questionnaire sent out to candidates.
Susan is working on compiling the responses. She plans to post to the list by the next call.
C. Letter to Matt Gonzales.
Tom sent the final draft to Brent to send out. Brent sent out the letter on Friday the 7th.
D. Update of campaign manual.
Brent sent out a "Word" version of the campaign manual to the subcommittee.
Amy and Rob intend to get back to the committee with recommendations in the next month or so. Brent has agreed to update Appendix B.
3. Campaign Schools
A. Develop template for campaign school.
Jen will email subcommittee to set up a conference call, perhaps for next Sunday.
B. Identify locations for campaign schools in 2005.
Cascadia Campaign School: Brent held a conference call with Jody Haug and Tom Bernard of Seattle earlier today. They are thinking about calling it the "Cascadia Campaign School." Brent spoke with Jody earlier in the week about a Green House party in Seattle to raise seed money for Campaign Schools. We are talking about bringing in a keynote speaker to ensure the success of the event.
The DC Strategy Retreat will be held Saturday January 15th at the University of the District of Columbia. Brent has been working with Gail Dixon on the facilities. It will be held in Bldg. 41 Room A05. Folks taking the Metro should take the Red Line to Van Ness - UDC Station. Bldg 41 is on Van Ness one block west of Connecticut. Rob Tuft is coming with two greens from Maryland to observe. Brent spoke with Becky Weber from the Green Pages about an article covering the event.
4. State Associates Program
A. Develop "job description" for State Associates.
Brent posted the final draft of the job description earlier today. The committee approved the document. Brent will post to the State Associates list serv and add as a page to the website.
B. Schedule regional conference call with state associates.
Amy indicated that the Great Lakes Region will be holding its next call in March. Tom emailed folks about holding a call for the Northeast Region.
Assignment for Regions are:
Tom - Northeast
Rob - Chesapeake
Jen and Cindy - Prairie
Brent - Pacific Northwest
Amy - Great Lakes
Jane and David - Southwest
Jason - Southern
5. Maintain Web Page/Listservers
A. Add new templates.
No action at this time.
B. Solve problem concerning ownership of election database.
Susan Dridi and Jonathan Lundell have agreed to evaluate the current software. Brent will follow-up.
6. Subcommittees/Liaisons with other Groups.
A. Reconvene BAWG
Brent has started a draft of our current ballot access status. Brent will try to get done by the end of the week. There was a discussion about work load. Jen suggested that Brent ask for help with the draft from Phil Huckelberry who is also knowledgeable on this subject.
B. Campus Greens
Jen suggested developing a manual for Get out the Vote (GOTV) on campuses.
C. Officeholders Network
Brent was contacted by Annie Young (MN) on Friday about a Officeholders Conference that is in the planning stage. She would like help with notifying the officeholders. Annie will get more information to us soon.
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