The Democratic Reunion: Tallahassee, Florida
Posted by on July 31, 2006 at 03:00 PM
I got this report in from Rick Minor, Chair of the Leon County Democratic Party.
Scores of Democratic volunteers braved the sweltering heat to walk Tallahassee's neighborhoods and reach out to voters. In addition to the neighborhood canvassing, many other volunteers called Leon County voters from the DEC headquarters. Local candidates and their campaign volunteers also participated.
About 80 local Democrats arrived Saturday morning for breakfast and outreach training before heading out into the community or making calls from the county party office. To encourage volunteer recruitment, we held a friendly competition amongst our local Democratic candidate campaigns. The three campaigns that brought the most volunteers are recognized on the Leon DECs website. Many other candidate campaigns both statewide and local participated as well, and were very thankful for their help.
Rep. Curtis Richardson, who seeking his fourth term in the Florida House of Representatives, attended the event and marked the occasion with a $1,000 contribution from his campaign fund. Were extremely grateful for his donation, which will help the party elect other Democratic candidates this fall.
Despite the extreme heat and humidity, our canvassers were intent on pounding the pavement! We paired up and drove to our precincts around 10:15am. Most of us forged on for hours, knocking on hundreds of doors and on occasion dodging a few raindrops! The majority of canvassers returned to the county party office after 2pm, with the last die-hard volunteer checking in at 4:30pm.
The local press coverage of our effort has been phenomenal! A TV reporter and cameraman followed a pair of our canvassers as they spoke with voters, and the Leon Democratic Party's Voter Outreach Day became the lead story our local ABC News affliate. Thats two full minutes of airtime at both 6pm and 11pm! We also have a segment currently playing on Florida News Radio/NPR. With such great press exposure, voters from all across North Florida are hearing about the hard work were doing to GET OUT THE VOTE and TAKE FLORIDA BACK!
Make no mistake about it the Democratic Party is alive and well in Leon County, Florida and we are dedicated to WINNING IN 2006!
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