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Jude Iam
02-21-2016, 12:36 AM
gary is an old collegue, really smart and totally worthy of support in his work for sanders. jude


The most leverage you'll ever have in your lifetime on the future of the planet,
bringing democracy to America, ending grotesque income inequality and more



Hi friends:

If you have read my op-ed I sent out about three weeks ago, The Most Important Month In The Next 10,000 Years: This February In Texas (https://medium.com/@Jwes115/the-most-important-month-in-the-next-10-000-years-this-february-in-texas-b01b048458ac), which is a logical deduction from the famous oceanographer, Sylvia Earle Quote, "These next 10 years will be the most important 10 years in the next 10,000 years," or will read it now, you hopefully will agree that if you cannot come to Texas right now, you will at least do all you can financially (directed to Texas efforts) or via Texas phone banking from home ( https://go.berniesanders.com/page/content/txphonebank/ ) to enable Bernie to win here in Texas, the state that has more than half of all Super Tuesday delegates, and more than four times the total delegates SouthCarolina has!

If you have any doubts why and how what you can do to affect the March 1st vote in Texas will have the most leverage you will ever have in your lifetime to affect the future of the planet, human freedoms, and any chance to bring democracy to America. read the op-ed:
The Most Important Month In The Next 10,000 Years: This February In Texas (https://medium.com/@Jwes115/the-most-important-month-in-the-next-10-000-years-this-february-in-texas-b01b048458ac),

IN the past few week, I, with the help of two local Texan students, and professional probono digital marketing (adwords and FB campaign ads) talent it took me a long 3 day wkend to recruit (having no budget), were miraculously able to do the following which has brought we believe, looking at the analytics, at least 100 more volunteers in just this past 4 days at somewhere between $4-6/vol, either to Texas from out of state and/or activated potential volunteers to go to local Texas offices to volunteer: (on top of nearly 100 vols I had personally recruited going around San Antonio face to face since Feb 1st).



Created (the Texas students and I)the website, www.BernieSandersTexas.com (https://www.berniesanderstexas.com/), which for the first time since the campaign began here in Texas, makes it easy for potential volunteers to find the location, email, and phone for the main Bernie offices in Texas. Until I and my my two Texas fellow volunteers, created the site, and I found the adwords money to drive traffic to the site, it was almost impossible for people here or outside the state to quickly and easily find the email and phone for whatever city office and campaign manager they wanted to contact to offer their services. A huge frustration that probably cost the campaign at least 200-300 volunteers for February alone. Absolutely amazing and tragic, doubly so if you read my The Most Important Month In The Next 10,000 Years: This February In Texas (https://medium.com/@Jwes115/the-most-important-month-in-the-next-10-000-years-this-february-in-texas-b01b048458ac), , which underscores how key Bernie winning Texas is for him to go on to become the party's nominee. (This cost me only $100.)



After days of searching (with very little money to offer from my own pocket(, I found the digital marketing (adwords) talent (10 years experience, a top pro at a company called Advantix) willing to donate the adwords campaign expertise (probably at least $700 value), and raised the $400 for the adwords costs to drive traffic to the site among anyone searching anything from "volunteer for bernie in texas" to "Houston office for Bernie Sanders" and many many other keyword phrases



Found a highly competent experienced Bernie-devoted Facebook ad strategist to implement the companion facebook ad campaign and raised $300 for those cost, which has proved even slightly more effective at getting traffic to the campaign office contact info website.


Since the FB campaign is proving slightly more effective than the adwords campaign, targeting the members of PDAmerica and DemocracyforAmerica (the most progressive dem groups) in Texas and adjoining nearby states and also NYC (Texas being also a perfect weather vacation spot for those battling cold weather), we now want to go after members, specifically from more likely to be more militant environmental orgs, and hence more likely to come to Texa, such as GreenPeace and CitizensClimateLobby. And if it doesn't motivate them to come here it should motivate them to spend more time phonebanking Texas from home by going to https://go.berniesanders.com/page/content/txphonebank/

But we need at least $300 to cover it, and keep in mind I've been working full time since Jan 29 pro bono, and my professional help gratis as well so far.

Whether you decide to help us, or donate directly to the BernieSanders.com national campaign, Ihope you have a way to ensure your funds will go to targeting Texas, which has more than 4x the number of Demo Party delegates than does South Carolina.

In addition, if you have proBernie friends here, we will need hosts to at least offer couches for out of state and out of city organizers. So please ask them to contact me as well if willing to help.

If you have Qs,you can also talk to John, the professional who is honchoing the FB campaign gratis. He is a social media marketing guru, totally Bernie Committed millennial who actually was a "successful" Mayoral campaign manager himself 2 years ago himself in Louisiana against a corrupt sheriff there.

Finally, and very importantly, Here's a great short note I hope you will send out to your friends especially those with large email lists:

"If you would like to have the most leverage you will ever have in your life, logically speaking to affect the future of the planet, I would love you to read an article posted on Medium titled The Most Important Month In The Next 10,000 Years: This February In Texas (https://medium.com/@Jwes115/the-most-important-month-in-the-next-10-000-years-this-february-in-texas-b01b048458ac), as well as a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Texas-for-Bernie-Sanders-1697537893793551/) to promote the article with. If impressed with the urgency of this matter (Super Tues is March 1!!), please share with your network of friends and influencers so that we can get this very important message across to interested volunteers. If you have an email list that would be useful to direct to our message, we can add you as an administrator to the page so that you can add your email list to the Facebook Ad campaign targeting profile and get the attraction that we need for this to really take off."


Yours truly, for justice, love, and the planet,
Gary Krane PhD
Fundraising, Organizing, Media, Strategy &the FightBackWisely project

650 383 8435of (8am-6pm) 802 380 8880cell (8pm-11pm) SKYPE: DavidvGoliath

"These ten years are likely to be the most important ten years in the next 10,000 years for the planet and human freedom."-Sylvia Earle (one of the world's leading oceanographers)
This quote refers to the latest science which now strongly indicates that the oceans (the source of 80% of our oxygen) will be basically dead in the next 20-25 years at the current rate of ocean acidification, and more than 50% of mammals (except those in zoos) will also likely be extinct due to our rapid rate of species extinction (1000x greater than prehuman history)