December 6th, 2015 Campaign Planning Meeting

Participants

Attending:

Discussion

Before the meeting, please review the following documents:

• Election Dates, Requirements, Stats
• Rick Falkvinge's Swarmwise
• LP's Candidate Recruitment Manual

Why Run as a Pirate?

Quick review to see if there are any addtions to the Why run as a Pirate? question. Kendra suggested we address opposing the Police State, Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, For profit prisons, etc. at the 11/30 IRC meeting.

Tasks & Who will do them

Election Schedule

1. Nomination papers available:
   1. State: 2/16/2016
   2. Federal: 2/16/2016
2. Last date to unenroll from a party
   1. State: 3/1/2016
   2. Federal: 5/31/2016
3. Last day to submit signatures to registrars
   1. State: 5/3/2016
   2. Federal: 8/2/2016
4. Last day for registrars to complete validating signatures
   1. State: 5/24/2016
   2. Federal: 8/23/2016
5. Last Day to ask registrars to review non-certified signatures
6. Signatures due at Elections Division
   1. State: 5/31/2016
   2. Federal: 8/30/2016
7. Last day to register to vote: 10/20/2016
8. Election Day: 11/8/2016

What are our tasks, when are they due, who does what?

Working backwards from Last day to submit signatures to registrars a rough selection of tasks are:

1. Review how this phase of the campaign worked
2. Setup rally when dropping off ballot signatures
   1. Publicize
   2. Setup logistics
   3. Invite media
   4. Hold event
   5. Talk with media
   6. Review progress
3. Have all candidates hand in enough signatures
4. Post how many signatures candidates have gathered weekly
5. Contact candidates weekly to check on their progress and get them help
6. Setup site where people can see who our candidates are so they can contact them
7. Train candidates and their campaign teams to gather signatures
   1. Every candidate gets a mentor / go to person for questions
8. Publicize that we are looking for candidates and what we expect of them
9. Identify candidates from within the party and allies and their campaign teams
10. Organizers call our supporters to invite them to regional meetings
11. Make list of supporters available to organizers
12. Work with organizers to setup regional meetings
13. Identify the organizers
14. Setup quick how to publicize and run a regional meeting
15. Email our supporters to ask for candidates and regional organizers
16. Identify potential organizers among members and allies
17. Setup simple page for people to volunteer to be regional organizers / candidates / supporters
18. Post videos on:
    1. why run
    2. how to get on the ballot

Open question: when should we hold PirateCon 2016?

Next Meetings

The next meetings will be Saturday, Dec. 19th at Regina Pizzeria in Allston, 3-5pm.