The Cupertino meeting will be postponed until November 12. The same with the San Mateo meeting.
I am going to reduce my time spent in meetings for a time and I would like to ask you to do the same.
I am going to direct my activism these next six weeks toward some of the campaigns that need the help, and which I believe can win with that help.
I would like to ask you to do the same.
I am going to tell you what works for me.
1.) Calling the county clerk and asking for the list of candidates running in your area. (Monday’s newsletter also contained a list that might be helpful.)
2.) Calling those candidates and asking how they stand on mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and other health mandates.
3.) Volunteering for the ones that say “individual choice or parents’ choice.”
When I say volunteer, I do not mean, for an hour on a Saturday. I mean four or six hour chunks of time 3 or 4 times a week. Almost anyone can readjust their schedule to prioritize a commitment like that.
And there is good reason to do that.
If you felt in 2020 like you didn’t have a single responsive elected official when the times got bad, it was because you had not been playing their game. Your guy might not get elected, but you will walk away even more immersed in the game, even more ready to win at the game.
But I know something. A single volunteer who provides the amount of support to a candidate that I describe above is enough to change a school board election in many places, a mayoral election in many places, even a state senate election in many places.
How very important a role you can play in shaping the future.
There are good candidates out there who need your help.
And if you need any pointers in that process, I am just an email away.
Allan Stevo
I wrote a comment, but it was deleted in the registration process. Basically, I'm looking for the list of endorsed candidates. A friend in the SF South Bay, has spent many hours weekly, over the last 2.5 yrs, researching and interviewing officials and candidates for offices. He's yet to endorse a single one on the topics of lockdown, mask and vaccine mandates. If you've found any, he'd really want your take. It would be ideal to get you two in contact.