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May Meetup report

We had a solid meeting last night. Billy Shaheen, Paul Hodes (Democratic candidate for 2nd congressional district), former Dean staffer and now ACT organizer Graham Roth each made very solid and well received presentations. We had about 60 people in attendence, which was down from our April meeting, when we had 100 people at the Meetup. The lower turnout was due to three things: 1) scheduling conflicts with other Upper Valley civic meetings, continued problems with getting our location for the Meetup properly posted on the Meetup/DFA website, and 3) a new location for the meeting (we're finally on the Dartmouth campus, which will be great for attracting students).

Still, it was an enthusiastic group, including at least half-a-dozen people who were first-timers at Meetup!

Billy Shaheen was really great talking about Kerry and why he deserves our support. We watched Kerry's new ad, which is excellent. Paul was very effective in his remarks, and I think people left feeling very good about his campaign, which is just underway. Finally, a number of people from the Upper Valley will be attending the canvassing on Saturday in Manchester.

How did it go for everyone else?
By pglenshaw at 05/06/2004 - 21:35 | Meetups | Meetups | Upper Valley | login or register to post comments | previous forum topic

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Souhegan Meetup

We had a good meeting of the Souhegan Valley folks, representing the towns of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Wilton and Lyndeborough. We share your frustration with the demented system at Meetup.com, which knocks our venue out of sight and only shows Nashua for our zip code. We rely on word-of-mouth and soon this website!!!

* We chose several state candidates to support, including Deb Pignatelli who is running for the executive council, a little known office with a lot of power.

* we identified races that need opposing candidates and identified a few people to ask to run in those races.

* We decided that our target audience is going to be the 18-year-old crowd and up. To that end, we will be inviting town clerks to high schools for voter registration, and we will be organizing a rock the vote concert.

* we are going to contact the wilton town hall theatre to see if they will show the film "Unprecedented" (see: http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/unprecedented.html) and we will invite Bill Gardiner (sec. of state) to the showing

* we will be connecting with local area Dem groups to alert them to our meetup group and to DfNH

For more information, please contact me at NH4Dean20@aol.com

peace and blessings,
nancy
By ntobi at Sun, 05/09/2004 - 2:04pm | login or register to post comments

your meeting

Nancy -- nice meeting agenda! How many people were there, and how did that compare with your usual attendence. One of the things we need to do going forward, and ideally for the June meetups, is to setup some items which will appear on the agenda of each monthly meeting. Obviously, we want local groups to have flexibility, but there should be common focus on a few items. Any thoughts on what you might emphasize, assuming you agree?
By pglenshaw at Mon, 05/10/2004 - 8:41am | login or register to post comments

Souhegan meeting

Peter,

We had around seven people. But there were two snail mail invites that got left in my car by accident so those two people probably forgot about it! We are going to work at expanding now that we are established.

We take the agenda outline from the DFA website, and then expand as necessary for local needs. Like identifying our target voter group was our own agenda item, as was the clerks registering at schools.

The MeetUp site disowns us every month, but somehow I managed to stay on the DFA Meetup Host email list. If you are not on it, then you should write to them about it. They will send you the agenda and stuff. That will give us the common focus. I really like it!

meetup@democracyforamerica.com

peace and blessings,
nancy
By ntobi at Tue, 05/11/2004 - 10:50am | login or register to post comments