I just became a member of our town's democratic committee today!

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Yipee! That's the good news. But the bad news is that the number on the committee now only stands at three after I came home and got my husband to join too. And this in a town of 5,000.

What I want to say is that I bet there are a lot of towns out there being manned by one person on such committees. Call your town office and find out who is in charge of your local caucus. And give that person a call and ask if you can help. The guy was just about crying today because I volunteered. And all I am doing is putting up some posters around town and preparing some mailings...maybe two hours of work.

I just assumed that "a committee" was taking care of the local work and never really gave it any thought until I became worried that there were no announcements in the paper about our upcoming caucus and wondered what was up.

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1. Thank you, thank you, thank you

I'm responsible for finding caucus convenors in this county. I've posted a few "Attn Mainers" threads with little response. All it takes is one person to call the caucus and then the Dems in the town have a contact.

I submitted a Press Release to the local paper detailing the caucus convenors in each town, the procedure for absentee "voting", and the times for the local caucuses. They didn't print it. I'm a bit discouraged.

I'm willing to get people in touch with convenors or to put them in touch with the coordinator for their county if there is no convenor. The state web site lists all the towns which have a caucus scheduled.

www.maindems.org

Thank you for getting involved!

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2. Hey, I got some time

What do you need? I used to work for Maine's largest daily as a reporter and can do press releases, etc.

Just a heads up: If you email a press release and put in the send line all of the places you send it to, ie, tv, radio, newspaper, it tends to put pressure on all media outlets to run the story. And then you send individual ones at night, different editor, so they think the story is fresh. Also, if it is already typed, they can just copy and paste the story into their medium.

Also, you put all of the info in the lead so they can paste the story in as a filler. Because basically every one in media is now pretty lazy. Last resort is your weeklies, you can negotiate an ad. You will buy the ad only if they run a similar story with it. That usually works. And you double dip on the information. Please let me know if you need some help!

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3. selfish kick because everyone needs to read this