(DailyKos) MA-Sen: Brown Hiring Temps to GOTV

[Hello_Kitty]

I've always said that the GOP's much vaunted grass roots volunteer base is largely mythical. They've used paid canvassers and petition gatherers here in AZ for years. What do they need volunteers for when they've got churches and corporate astroturf groups to do their GOTV work for them?


MA-Sen: Brown Hiring Temps to GOTV

by Laura Clawson
Mon Jan 18, 2010 at 10:16:02 AM PST
Polls show that Scott Brown's supporters in tomorrow's special election are particularly motivated. So this strikes an off note.

The Brown campaign is hiring scores of paid temp workers from temp agencies to help staff Brown’s get-out-the-vote effort, work that’s typically handled by unpaid volunteers, a Massachusetts temp agency tells me.

Dems are likely to grab onto the use of temp workers to argue that the grassroots energy behind the Brown candidacy is overstated — and contrast it with the massive volunteer effort lining up behind Martha Coakley.

Diamond Staffing, a temp agency in central Massachusetts, circulated an email to other temp agencies telling them that they are sending temp workers to the Brown campaign in response to the campaign’s request. The email asked other agencies to send their own workers, according to Joe Asciotti, the president of Reliable Temps, an agency in Agawam.

This could be an artifact of a campaign that operated below the radar until recently and didn't develop volunteers or the capacity to manage them, or perhaps Brown's voters aren't accustomed to volunteering. Whatever the case, it's odd.



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[jezebel]

1. I'm just sick over this. The latest ARG today has Brown up 7 at 52. This is unbelievable. nt

[butterfly77]

4. I can believe it but...

day after day,somebody is complaining. Didn't he say WE when before and after he took office.

I notice a lot of SO CALLED dems come on here day after day talking about what the President should and should not do,the same damn people who sat on their asses and did or said nothing while Dick Armey and the teabaggers took over the healthcare debate and now they want to complain...

Same thing goes for these SO CALLED dems who show up on tv wimping out and talking down our candidates and our President instead of knocking down these asshole republicons they sit there and agree with them..


But,Its not over till its over and we still have a chance.

[Hello_Kitty]

6. There were pro-health care rallies going on all over the country.

I went to several and we always outnumbered the teabaggers who showed up to protest. The problem we had, and still have, is that the bill isn't complete and is a jarbled mess to try and explain to people. The teabaggers have a much simpler message on HCR: "No!" Another big problem Dems have now is that most of the people who showed up at those rallies to support HCR were proponents of single payer or a robust public option. IOW, the reviled dirty hippie progressives who are being blamed by the DLC for the public's opposition to the watered down Senate bill. I mean, it certainly can't be the fault of the DLCers or Blue Dogs who stripped everything the public liked out of the bill, can it? Of course not. Nothing is ever their fault. Yep, it's the fault of the dirty hippies who criticize the bill.

[butterfly77]

8. Too little, too late..

the teabaggers took over the townhalls,as I asked "Where in the hell are the Dems" and me and friends had to tell our representatives to hold townhalls also,bluedogs jumping out from every other hole..

[Hello_Kitty]

9. Whose fault was that? Dem leadership or progressive activists? eom

[butterfly77]

12. Both..

throughout this past year they have let the CONS set the agenda..

[Hello_Kitty]

14. Equally to blame?

A bunch of ordinary folks, many of whom are unemployed or underemployed and routinely marginalized and ignored by the MSM are JUST AS MUCH TO BLAME as the Dem party with its millions of dollars and massive organizational structure?

Really?

[butterfly77]

15. We have to make them pay attention

like the teabaggers.

[Hello_Kitty]

19. Oh yeah, Rahm has really paid attention to us.

Long enough to tell us to STFU.

[butterfly77]

22. Who in the hell is talking about Rahm...

I am talking about people on the streets,give them some damn facts.I do everyday.

[laughingliberal]

17. He also said, "Make me do it." I'm still waiting for those who would stifle dissent to tell me what

that meant.

If the plan is to blame the left if this seat is lost and then continue on with the left bashing until November then I expect we'll see more losses in November. Say what you will, most MA voters have probably never heard of DU. But a lot of them have probably heard the insults out of the White House regarding the 'left of the left.'

[jaxx]

2. Kind of shows someone bigger than Brown is managing that campaign.

And most likely is from DC. (that's my guess)

[rocktivity]

3. May the majority of them be Coakley supporters

:evilgrin:
rocktivity

[hfojvt]

5. I gotta yawn at this

I happen to know that we did the same thing in Kansas during the last election. The kid I walked with was getting paid $100 on election day, and he'd been a paid door-knocker for the whole campaign. He didn't seem to be very good at it either, had little energy or enthusiasm. He was part of a gang of about 8 to a dozen, mostly young people, who were paid by DNC, or Obama money.

It's just what parties do when they have plenty of money.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. I'm not saying Democrats never do this. I'm saying Republicans ALWAYS do it.

It only takes 200 some odd signatures to get on the ballot as a legislative candidate and Republicans will pay people to do that for them. I've never seen a Republican politician or volunteer canvassing in my neighborhood and they rarely have volunteers staffing their party offices. The Dem party OTOH is always hopping with volunteers for our local races.

[mucifer]

10. dems in Chicago do this and it's a blue area

[WeDidIt]

11. Paid Temps for the GOTV effort won't be very good at it.

Not very good news for Brown fans.

But good news for Coakley.

[tinrobot]

13. Call the Brown's office and have them drive you to the polls

Even if you can drive yourself. Every seat in those vans should contain Democrats.

[Hello_Kitty]

21. LOL!! eom

[jpak]

16. Wow - Brown was series about job creation - a stroke of fuckin' genius I tell ya!

:rofl:

[laughingliberal]

18. Just like the corporate sponsored grass roots teabagger groups. nt

[WI_DEM]

20. And anybody who will work for Brown but don't believe in what he stands for is NUTS