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Tag: phone banking

Ten in `10

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Wed Jul 28, 2010 at 07:58:22 AM EST
Tags: Michigan Republican Party, Chairman Weiser, Ten in '10, volunteer activities, social networking, door-to-door, phone banking, yard signs, election volunteer, recruitment, absentee voting, local events, grow the base, Fix Michigan (all tags)

A new video release from the Michigan Republican Party asks a question that we all should have an answer to. With the statewide primaries just under a week away, what are you doing to help fix Michigan?

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July 2010 Fix Michigan Super Saturday!

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 03:30:05 PM EST
Tags: door-to-door blitz, activist training, phone banking, Michigan Republican Party, Fix Michigan Centers, August statewide primary elections, home cooking (all tags)

While we are all, individually and collectively, mourning the loss of the "gold standard" of Michigan's conservative blogosphere - Chet Zarko - there remains the brutal reality that we have a critical election to win in the Great Lakes State. And with the statewide primary elections (where we actually have a useful choice) being just under two weeks away . . . well, let me just say that we have to get busy and leave it at that.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Why The Grunt Work Matters

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 01:51:33 PM EST
Tags: Fix Michigan Centers, voter identification, phone banking, neighborhood walking, message targeting, volunteer staff, Precinct Delegates, candidate and issue research, get-out-the-vote (all tags)

Promoted, because longer direct involvement is indeed key

Around 430 BC, Pericles - a prominent Athenian statesman and general - said, "We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." Though I am hardly a fan of many of his policies (apparently free-spending liberal-democrats are nothing new under the sun), I will readily concede that the man has a point.

Talk to most people about political involvement, and if they answer you at all it will normally be along the lines of conventions or rallies or speeches (or perhaps even blogging); things that make for great souvenir or photo opportunities and even the occasional great story. But for as nice as that stuff looks in a photo album or hanging on a wall, all that dog-and-pony-show stuff doesn't come close to being what it takes to actually win an election.