Progressive Left Prepares for 2010 with Campaign Boot Camp
12/01/2009
As pivotal mid-term elections approach in 2010, Wellstone Action is bringing 37 experienced campaign managers and leaders together in Minneapolis, MN next week for an intense training boot camp. Competitively selected from hundreds of applicants, these 37 participants represent the best of the next generation of campaign leadership and include managers and senior staff from gubernatorial, congressional, and state legislative races, as well as progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Service Employees International Union.
Wellstone Action's Advanced Campaign Management School (ACMS) is an intensive four and a half-day training, designed for individuals with a high level of past electoral experience and those who plan to play leadership roles in 2010 campaigns. The training will draw on cutting-edge best practices and be led by expert practitioners with decades of electoral success.
Participants hail from 15 states, including New York, Texas, California, and Ohio. Wellstone Action's ACMS is designed to give skills to a new generation of campaign leadership - 43% or participants are women, 59% are under 35 years old, and 40% are participants of color.
Wellstone Action's Advanced Campaign Management School runs from December 9 through December 13, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, 1500 Washington Ave S in Minneapolis.
This intensive multi-day training is designed for individuals with past electoral experience who want to take their political organizing skills to the next level.
But what do you do in the months and years that lead up to a run for office? How can you set yourself up well to have a broad base to turn to when you announce your candidacy? This organizing tool looks at how to build your base as you get ready to run.
If you are working or volunteering on a campaign this year, chances are you've been asked to doorknock. That's because the more personal the contact with voters the better, and having conversations with them at their door the most effective tool for getting the votes you need to win.
