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FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 04:55 PM Mar 2016

Donate to fund 500 Bernie Buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's backyard.

Our first crowd fund project raised over $468 for 10,000 pieces of 4 x 6 color glossy Westchester 4 Bernie Lit. (Seen here on the right). Hundreds of these Bernie Flyers have been handed out at the Chappaqua train station, right in Hillary’s hometown. For our efforts we got some great earned media. Phil Reisman of the Westchester Journal News wrote a great piece found here.

The Communications Workers of America endorsed Bernie in mid December, I gave Joe Mayhew of the CWA local 1103, 500 of these flyers for his membership to handout.

Our second crowd fund project will fund the purchase of 500 W4B buttons, printed at a union shop, they will cost $430. As of this morning we’ve raised $180.



Here’s our plan, roughly half of these buttons will go to canvassers on the ground, the other half will be sold for $3, the proceeds will go to funding 1,000 Westchester 4 Bernie lawn signs.

When we make voter ID calls, we generate a list of Bernie supporters. Then we filter the list for the residential streets that get a lot of traffic in the AM & PM rush hours. Every neighborhood has these shortcuts that feed into main commercial streets.

By putting lawn signs on these streets we avoid the visual clutter of lawn signs in all the favorite intersections. In a few weeks all of these major intersections will be filled with Trump & Hillary signs, and it makes no sense to add to the visual clutter. This tactic brings the best bang for the buck.

For every donation of $60 or more you will be mailed 3 W4B buttons as a bernspark PERK. Our deadline for the project is March 31st.

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Donate to fund 500 Bernie Buttons for Canvassers in Hillary's backyard. (Original Post) FogerRox Mar 2016 OP
I only give to Bernie. He knows what he needs. Jenny_92808 Mar 2016 #1
I'll vouch for this one. nt Smarmie Doofus Mar 2016 #3
I built my own voter database in August. FogerRox Mar 2016 #4
After 43 Bernie Events I don't need your affirmation. FogerRox Mar 2016 #5
Hey. Great project. Interesting town.... Chappaqua. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2016 #2
 

Jenny_92808

(1,342 posts)
1. I only give to Bernie. He knows what he needs.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 05:06 PM
Mar 2016

I don't trust those who say....give me money and I will do something good for Bernie.

FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
4. I built my own voter database in August.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:13 PM
Mar 2016

We got our first staffer in NY state 10 days ago, with no lit no law signs, no office.

So Frankly you ought to be damn glad that we got organized back in August.

Just so you know, I crowd funded 10,000 pieces of color 4x6 glossy Bernie lit last December. And thank God I did, or we'd be printing lit on our own printers.

So just look at the other projects on Bernspark.com and wonder how many other projects have failed our been successfully funded nationally. And why.

FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
5. After 43 Bernie Events I don't need your affirmation.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 07:19 PM
Mar 2016

Or your negative vibe.

Organizers nationally have used crowd funding to build large LED BERNIE 2016 signs for the Bernie Light Brigade.

To purchase hundreds of thousands of pieces of Lit.

And we did it without you.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
2. Hey. Great project. Interesting town.... Chappaqua.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 05:16 PM
Mar 2016

Wiki: >>>Demographics[edit]
As of the census[24] of 2000, there were 9,468 people, 3,118 households, and 2,687 families residing in the census-designated place. The population density was 389.7/km² (1,009.8/mi²). There were 3,181 housing units at an average density of 130.9/km² (339.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.80% White, 0.94% African American, 0.03% Native American, 5.62% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 1.07% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.55% of the population. 14.3% were of Italian, 11.4% Russian, 10.6% Irish, 7.1% United States or American, 6.0% English and 5.7% German ancestry according to Census 2000. 92.4% spoke English, 3.6% Spanish and 1.0% Italian as their first language.

There were 3,118 households out of which 52.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 79.1% were married couples living together, 5.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 13.8% were non-families. 11.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.03 and the average family size was 3.27.>>>>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaqua%2C_New_York

An odd place for two creatures (Mr. and Mrs. Clinton) so famously devoted to the principles of economic and social diversity to end up.
One would think, anyway.

Back in the 60's I had some cousins.... they were both public school teachers.... who lived there, but that appears to be before the town was reincorporated and reconfigured to eliminate.... you know... regular people.

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