50-State Turnout: New Jersey
In New Jersey, mudslinging by the Kean, Jr. campaign has sidetracked a real discussion of the issues in the competitive Senate race. As a result, NJ Democrats are utilizing the 50–State Turnout event to help re-focus the discussion onto issues that really matter in New Jersey, like the war in Iraq, protecting our homeland, access to health care and affordable education. Their goal is to spread the word about Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and all of the other Democratic nominees.
I asked one of the New Jersey DNC-funded organizers, Colleen Montgomery, about what it has been like to participate in the national organizing days:
Well first, the April 29th and July 29th DNC-sponsored events were very successful in New Jersey. On July 29th we had over 250 people canvassing in 15 staging locations throughout the state.This time around we are hosting in each of Senator Menendez’s regional offices, as well as our six congressional challengers headquarters. Working from the list of volunteers we collected in July, we were actually able to recruit more volunteers to canvass and phone bank for the Senator this fall. We are hoping that we’ll have an even greater volunteer response on October 7th, and can sign those people up to work on Election Day in November.
Another organizer, Rob Gordon, told me that the main difference between this event, and past events, is the intense focus on working in partnership with local campaigns. This is something that is happening in all 50 states as Democratic activisits have begun working hand-in-hand with local candidates towards a November victory.
With fourteen events taking place in NJ this Saturday, and a huge state-wide operation well under-way, NJ Dems are building their base of volunteers for Election Day 2006, and beyond.
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