Hey, Whome...did you get this e-mail?

[TayTay]

Got this in the old e-mail today. I'm sepcial, I get state-specific e-mail. Ha HA!

Dear XXXXX,

Looking back on the 2004 Campaign, one of the things I am most proud of is the support and dedication we received from our friends in Massachusetts. Thank you for everything you did for our campaign. Starting in the primaries right up until election day, so many of you gave hours of your time, your money and your enthusiasm towards achieving our shared vision of a stronger America and it really made a difference. We will always be grateful for what you did.

While we did not reach our goal, we still have much to be proud of.

With your critical help, we were able to swing New Hampshire, a state that voted for Bush in 2000, into the blue column because so many of you traveled there to join up with our great New Hampshire team to knock on doors and phone the homes of undecided Granite State voters. We can be proud too that while we were in New Hampshire canvassing and phoning for the Presidential campaign, we joined forces with Democrat John Lynch's Gubernatorial campaign and added great strength to their successful effort to defeat Republican incumbent Governor Craig Benson. And again, thanks to those of you who traveled many hours to Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and dozens of other states on our bus trips or on your own. Our Massachusetts team blazed an impressive trail.

But our work is not done. Here, in Massachusetts, we have many important battles to fight in the next several years, beginning with reelecting Ted Kennedy to the United States Senate and winning back the governor's seat in 2006. The Massachusetts Democratic Party needs your help to build a winning field operation all across the state and to help ensure statewide victories in 2006. A state party is only as strong as the grassroots leaders it develops and deploys. We learned first hand in the last election how important it is to have vibrant strong state parties 365 days a year, every year, and not just during the peak of the campaign cycle.

I encourage you to stay involved in the Massachusetts Democratic party by attending your local caucuses taking place between January 29th and February 12th. These events are important venues where your participation will add strength to the Party's efforts and impact the direction it will take statewide. They will also help shape the direction our State takes as we identify key issues and key fights to organize around.

If you need any assistance in locating Democratic Party caucuses in your area, please contact David Howard, Massachusetts Democratic party Volunteer Coordinator at 617-472-0637 or by email at [e-mail] or go to www.massdems.org to sign up for their volunteer list and e-mail list serve.

What you did during my campaign made an enormous difference and we can keep on making a difference in people's lives by staying together and fighting. Join the three million people on line at johnkerry.com and make a difference today through our active campaigns on foreign policy and chidlren's health care.

We will also continue to work to support Democratic candidates, parties and causes across the country starting in the elections of 2005 and 2006. And once again we will call on our friends in Massachusetts to help. We will be in touch in coming weeks with specific ways you can keep on making such a critical difference for Massachusetts, for our country and for the values and vision we share.

With deepest gratitude,

John Kerry

[whometense]

1. No, I didn't get that one.

At least not yet. BUT I did get an invitation to a thank you party for Massachusetts volunteers. I know there'll 100,000 people there, but I admit I'm still kind of excited.

The weird thing is, the invite came to my work email address, which I haven't used for political stuff since over a year ago. I think they have some database cleanup to do ( actually, judging from the hours I spent phoning from Boston HQ, I know they have a LOT of database cleanup to do!

[TayTay]

2. Okay, you win

I didn't get that. I want to go. Where is it? (If squeamish, you can punt.)

[Sydnie]

3. I would like to attend that as well

but I didn't get the email. Where and when and what do we need to get in? I'd even call in sick to work for that one.

[whometense]

4. I'll pm you.

[Pirate Smile]

5. I had to sign up again and I know many, many of us here have had to

sign up 2 or 3 times to get the e-mails being sent out now.

I'm getting them now but I never did get the one about calling Hastert and Frist.

I'm afraid he is losing a lot of people off his list.

[TayTay]

6. Yeah, I kind of thought there would be problems

They don't have nearly the staff they had a few months ago. So maintenance is going to be an ongoing problem. It's so hard to keep an e-mail list current. Hope they find a way to hire some staff at the new PAC and straighten this out.

I could volunteer. I do this stuff for a living anyway. Maybe I'll send them some e-amil.

[Pirate Smile]

7. If you have some contacts, please let them know.

:)

[ginnyinWI]

8. I'm still not on!

I signed up again and again--and got a confirmation email too! And the latest health care petition didn't reach me! :(

[Pirate Smile]

9. That sucks! Tay Tay - do something (if you can).

Are you sure your e-mail isn't blocking it as spam?

[TayTay]

10. I can't do anything,

But I would LIKE to volunteer to help out. I have no idea if they are even soliciting help yet. But I will ask.

[ginnyinWI]

11. well I have a yahoo mail account,

which has a "bulk" folder, and I check that too. I'll check the blocked addresses again, but I never blocked it. :(

[TayTay]

12. This is just another in a series of 'Thank You' appearances

I have not received an invitation to the one Whome did. This is appropriate as I did not do any work in Boston. I worked in Nashua, trying to get Cow Hampshire to turn Blue. (It worked. Wish I could have helped turn more states blue, but I digress.) I will wait and see if there is something, anything, that could possibly turn up for MA Dems who live on the NH border. (It could happen. Especially for MA Dems who have spare beds in their homes and could take in volunteers during the long build up to the NH primary in '08. Ah well, who cares about us.) I think there will be more thank you pahtays.

[elshiva]

13. I get most of his mailings, but

I guess I didn't get this one cos I live in MD, not MA, right?