November 15th, 2015 Campaign Planning Meeting

Participants

Attending: Steve, James

Discussion

Before the discussion, please review the following documents:

• Rick Falkvinge's Swarmwise
• LP's Candidate Recruitment Manual

Tasks

Reaching Out to Supporters

• reach out to supporters:
  • ask to organize/volunteer/recommend candidates

Identifying Candidates

• videos:
  • why run
  • how to run set
• mentor & support candidates

Summary

What are our goals?

• More candidates than last time
• Better support for candidates
  • Web site - votepirate.us
  • How-tos
    • Pick an office
    • Get on Ballot
    • Run ...
• More press attention
• Expand number of chapters
• Expand volunteer network

What do we need / What do we have?

People

Why Run as a Pirate?

Campaign issue ideas

• Innovation/Competition
  • Ban non-compete agreements
  • Oppose video/film subsidies
  • Setup Single payer healthcare for all
  • Making all public higher education free
  • Raising up spending on K-12 education
  • Stream-line process to setup a business
    • especially for cooperative businesses?
    • Recognition of L3C corporations
  • Basic Income? / Right to a job?
• Automatically put all state records on-line with ability to exempt/Fixing Public Records
• Improve transportation
  • Remove all tolls on the pike and elsewhere
  • Fixing the MBTA
    • make it focus on transporting people
    • so it is more sustainable financially
    • better supports the needs of people
    • main goal seems to be catching fair evaders & people who assault bus drivers
    • Remove the big dig debt from the t's books
• Municipal broadband
• Legalize / tax all drugs / treat as public health issue
• Education
  • No for-profit charter schools
    • no wall street folks making money off the backs of our children
• Taxes
  • Increase taxes on rich - See [1]

Tasks

For December 6th meeting

Update CiviCRM to meet our needs

• SSO? /openid?
• How to search blank fields
• smart groups for people w/o email or phone
• find out how to get people to update their contact info
• Embedded signup forms in blog/other site (CSS issues?)
• Video Game Company Tax Credit petition (jokeefe)
• geo tagged / smart lists for regions (jokeefe)

For December 19th meeting

After cleaning up list, call people to setup regional meetings

• Need sign up sheet for regional organizers
• Put out calls for regional organizers
• Start calling for organizers in late Dec/early Jan

Regional meetings in early/mid January - February

• Get access to regional lists to organizers
• Need regional meeting pages / votepirate.us?
• Need people to sign up for meetings
• Get details on meetings

Next Meetings

The next meetings will be Sunday, Dec. 6 at Regina Pizzeria in Allston and Saturday, Dec. 19th at a location determined by a poll. srevilak will post the poll.