To Do List

High priority

• Volunteers to represent campaign at:

• County Fairs, Parades and the State Fair
• College Campuses, city and town events (wear your T-shirt everywhere, carry stickers, be politely aggressive)

• Driving the buzz in traditional and online media with Letters to the Editor, blog entries and comments
• Phone Banking from Campaign Headquarters or home
• Compile precinct information for all Utah cities (including NCEC data ESPECIALLY)
• Create a map showing the relative proportion of dem vs. rep voters per precinct
• Improve and expand the volunteer database program

Additional programming help is needed for this and other projects. Email either Pete or David.

• Use a map to create a focus on issues important to Utah, and to show what and where the candidate or incumbant are doing to resolve these issues. For example, in the Program Locator at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net you can see maps that show where poverty and poorly performing schools are most concentrated in Chicago. You can also search a database to show where existing non school tutoring/mentoring programs are located. If such a map were being used by elected officials, or candidates (in every state), flags could be posted to show places the candidate has visited, place the candidate has helped get private or public fuding, or volunteers, etc. The map would create accountability because it would show if the candidate/incumbant were reaching all areas in the state/district, or just a few areas.

Medium priority

• College and University contact and organizing
• Find group and non-profit speaking engagements
• Need a large political (not geographical) wall map of Utah
  • Small map showing counties
  • Large wall map ($200)
  • Another large wall map ($200):
  • Utah's congressional districts
  • 2001 Redistricting
  • Utah zip code wall map ($20)
  • Salt Lake County district maps
  • County voting district maps
• Find sympathetic business and property owners for sign and banner placement
• Put a web button on your website
• Plan creative ways to get Ashdown's face seen on TV and voice heard on the radio
• Request that Daily Kos interview Pete.
• How to organize mailings to voters?
• How to organize volunteers to go door to door in the precincts?

General Work

• Organize a meet & greet
• Talk to your friends and neighbors about this campaign. Make a goal of 20 people a month.
  • Tell them about the mailing list and encourage them to join
• Make a yard or window sign using one of the Design
• Put a sticker on your car
  • Distribute stickers that will be used for cars
• Put a web button on your web site(s)
• Create new designs for buttons, bumper stickers, signs, etc.
• Come into the Headquarters at 780 E South Temple SLC
• Organize field offices in your community
• Brainstorm some catchy phrases to use on buttons
• Do research on any issue you think we should focus on.
  • Add your thoughts to the issues pages
  • Add links to reputable sources for research
  • Do opposition research
    • What have the opponents said and done?
  • Recommended Reading
• Letters to the editor
  • Assemble list of Utah newspapers w/ links to letter-to-editor forms
  • Make a list of suggested topics for people to send letters about
  • Solicit people to send in letters regularly during election cycle
• Volunteer as a Wiki monitor/sysop (requires granted permissions, email Pete)
• Add recent radio interview recordings to http://vote.peteashdown.org/media/ Ex.: Media:Ashdown_upr_24_mar_06.ogg (This recording has beginning cut off, find better recording)

Requests for Pete

• Articulate why this campaign is important for the non-tech electorate
  • What issues in particular are you hearing from local Utahns when you speak with them?
  • If you could only achieve 3 wishes for your electorate from your issues page, what would they be?

1. Turn around education in America so we are sending more children to college and graduating more scientists, engineers, and medical professionals.
2. Eliminate our need for foreign oil completely and establish cheap, clean, and plentiful energy sources for Americans.
3. Renew the ideals of democracy through communication and technology. Equalize the voice of Americans with special interests and open wide the doors of government for the inspection and entry all citizens.

• (DONE?) Establish an online mailing list for people to sign up for updates and provide feedback to other activists in Utah.

Other than the Campaign Mailing List, please tell me what you would specifically like.

• (DONE) Post more Pete photos
  • May help to have some more variety - a color, in focus picture of you giving a speech to a large audience would be good. A posed one of you and your family would be worth having. Maybe a photoshopped one of you looking like Ah-nold.
• Create a Campaign Group on DFA-Link