Entering 4th Week
This last week has been great at Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy! We voted on our new symbol logo as seen at the top of this VOID website. (Thank you Daniel Summars for the excellent design work). Stephanie Crist is organizing the reams of ideas and history of actions taken in our first few weeks of organization. A new staff member has joined us, Craig Aronow; welcome aboard Craig.
David Weller, Daniel Summars, and myself have begun contacting advocacy and third party groups about the possibility of working together to get VOID's concept out to the public. Dennis Sherrard has generated an Excel work flow chart to help us all stay on plan and is compiling a donor's contact list. And I have been busily completing the final touches on this and the staff's web sites.
In this coming 4th week of VOID's existence, we are planning and setting a date for a modest publicity blitz on the internet. We have not advertised VOID in any concerted way yet, but the stats show the VOID site has seen more than 100 unique visitors. VOIDnow.Org is our official web site URL, and we are starting to get some positive feedback.
I have priced bumper stickers as a potential
way of rewarding our donors and generating more revenue. They will run from $1 to $2 a piece with a minimum order of 200, depending on how many color passes have to be made. We don't yet have sufficient donations to order these and move ahead with other projects. So, one very important way to aid the VOID movement is to click here and make a donation.
Week 4 is going to be a doing week. We have a number of irons in the fire, and must complete these tasks with our 7 staff members, before moving on to bigger and grander efforts. If you have just 2 hours a week to share with VOID, we would very much appreciate your involvement and assistance. Just click here to complete an information form and Join the Void effort.
The elections held this week appear to demostrate a growing anti-incumbent mood in America. We have a ready audience, we just need more volunteers and donations to get the message out. And the message is, Voting out incumbents will return democracy to the people and force politicians to solve our problems instead of creating them.
Onward into the VOID!
Comments
What an awesome goal, you know you can count me in.
Posted by: Lisa Renee | November 10, 2005 12:21 PM
Thank you for your support, Lisa Renee! Welcome to VOID!
Posted by: Stephanie | November 10, 2005 10:12 PM
Hey, Lisa. Fantastik. Damn glad to see you join us. We would sure appreciate it if you could click on Sign Our Guestbook above and list add your name, city, state to our list of supporters.
If and when you have up to 2 hours a week to spare, we'd love to have you join our staff of volunteers.
Posted by: David R. Remer | November 11, 2005 12:07 AM
Lisa,
Welcome to right side of the battle. The side that is really for getting America working again.
The thing I like about VOID is everyone here has put political differences aside and are working togeather for this one great cause.
Posted by: Ron Brown | November 11, 2005 8:26 PM
Lisa,
Welcome!
I'd like to echo what Ron Brown just said!
All I'd like to add is, this feels right.
It feels like the most simple, logical, non-partisan, inexpensive, safe, peaceful, and responsible way to peacefully force government responsible too.
Other approaches aren't working, and don't have the one important thing this idea has: Peaceful Force
It has the necessary force to balance power between government and The People, not simply shift it, or strip government of all power to get anything done.
And, who can say, if The People so choose, they are not within their rights (while they still have the right to vote)?
Who can say they are wrong for doing the right thing?
Who can deny what we've been doin' ain't workin' ?
Who can say they have a better, more responsible plan ?
Who can deny that it will get the attention of the politicians?
Who can deny that it will give government an incentive to police their own ranks?
Who can argue against doing what we should have been doing all along?
Posted by: d.a.n | November 12, 2005 4:13 PM
If we can force our elected officials to adress the ploblems facing this country each of us will have different ideas on how to fix them. But if the problems are being addressed I feel that a soulution can be reached that would be satisfactory to most people. There might be something in the soulutions that we don't like, but there will be things we like. It's called compromise. An idea that has been lost by all the fighting between the main stream parties.
Posted by: Ron Brown | November 12, 2005 6:04 PM
Couldn't agree with you more, Ron. Bi or multi-partisanship can be restored if incumbents know their political careers depend upon solutions that work.
Posted by: David R. Remer | November 13, 2005 1:45 AM