This is sort of a reply to the topic directly below this one, but i thought it needed to be said separately. When I first came to the site, I was pretty satisfied with the information, but when it was basically the same every time I came back, I started wondering what was up and going elsewhere for info. The website is one of the most important things, especially in a campaign like this. People who are just questioning or wanting to get info on other candidates are not going to spend as much time here or elsewhere looking up information than those of us who actively sought this out to begin with. People are not easily impressed. We need to give them more reasons to pay attention.
I AM TOTALLY WILLING TO HELP OUT IN ANY WAY THAT WOULD BE NEEDED to make this site the way we want it to be, meaning frequently updated and containing a wider wealth of information. Hell, I work at an office, so I could even do some of it at work. I do think there needs to be a picture of him, and I was really confused by the biography that presented him as a senator, and at first I wasn’t sure if he was currently a senator or not, in fact, many people still call him senator, but he isn't right now, right? That still needs to be changed, by the way.
If we are serious about this, AND I SERIOUSLY AND COMPLETELY AM, and I think you are or want to be too, then we really need to rethink what we are doing and DEFINITELY try harder. I think we are all capable of dedicating more of our time and money to the campaign, and that is what we need to do right now, because it is already going to be hard enough as it is, and the time is trickling away as always. There is still TONS of time, though; we just need to act NOW to get people’s attention. I have tons of ideas, and I know you guys do too. We just need to speed things up.
There are primaries in Texas and Ohio next week, and i think there are still about half of them left to go. The fate of this race is still up to us, this is a chance we can’t fail to take. People are already kind of paying attention to the issues because it is an election year and everyone is sick of the Bush Administration. We need to ride this wave, because it looks like we are at a tipping point.
This is a good time. I have a good feeling about this. I just need help. I need some contacts, I need to discuss and plan some things. It would be really nice if there were some sort of chat option on the site. I just feel like it is imperative that I coordinate with people in the other major cities, LA and NY and I am in Chicagoland, and we at least need to do that so we can plan our campaigning together. It’s a bummer that there is no way to send messages to specific people on here, but whatever. I don’t mind putting my email on here, but I would like some replies first. Absolutely any events that Mike will be at or will be broadcasting at or appearing or whatever need to be updated and accurate and everything. Actually, it would be wonderful if there were a separate section for updates, where any and all news or new info is documented and linked to.
WE NEED TO BE TRYING HARDER AND WE NEED TO ORGANIZE, NOW. RIGHT THIS SECOND. PLEASE REPLY. LETS DO SOMETHING, PLAN SOMETHING.
Don’t worry, I am almost done, but I also wanted to let everybody know that I just finished one of the flyers that I had planned. I can't seem to get it to post properly, does anybody know how to do that?
Thanks for reading this! I would love to help out more, and get some contacts and some large scale plans made.
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Trying another few possible web designers tomorrow too :)
Submitted on March 2nd, 2008 by Sam_CYeah... definitely found a few possibles in different places, & I'm going to start on hitting them up tomorrow & see what happens... fingers crossed! I'll post again to say if I've got a good result on this later on, and anyone who's interested can always email me too. Again like you said uhleesuh, we've all gotta get things moving fast....
Sam ( scro3982@bigpond.net.au )
Would love to get in touch with you about this as soon as we can
Submitted on March 2nd, 2008 by Sam_CYeah, I've got a few ambitious web-related plans as well, which I know would boost the campaign a lot, and we need desperately to build up the campaign network over the Internet as well, in any way possible. Time is most definitely running out!
I've been searching around myself for someone with the right web development skills to make things happen here, especially when it comes to PHP/Drupal languages (I think Drupal is the programming language this site uses), so I'm excited to see that you're interested in doing something here, and I'm hoping - from your message, that you might have some web design abilities. We do need to get things moving on any idea that would work well, as soon as possible.
Hoping that we can chat more through email or any other way to share our ideas. I'd like to see what you've got in mind too. My best email address is scro3982@bigpond.net.au - really hope I hear from you soon!
Sam