Article: Grassroots grow online for state caucus activists (Kucinich,etc)

[Dover]

Grassroots grow online for state caucus activists

Clark, Dean, Kerry, Kucinich start fast

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

....But perhaps the single most impressive feat accomplished thus far by local grassroots campaign supporters belongs to those stumping for Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Within 36 hours of the candidate's announcement of a visit to the University of Michigan campus between campaign stops in Houston and Iowa earlier this month, Kucinich supporters pulled together more than 200 people through e-mails and phone calls.

The crowd swelled beyond the confines of the room reserved in the Michigan League, prompting an outdoor speech.

"It's a lot of work, but all worthwhile when it's someone you believe in," said Mares Herchert, of Hartland, who forwarded dozens of e-mail announcements on the event through a network of names she found through the candidate's Internet site.

Herchert also pledged to insert appeals for supporting Kucinich in her annual holiday cards. "You can't get much more grassroots than that," she said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1072798800239820.xml

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That's our boy! And that's our people!

[maddezmom]

1. great article :)

thanks for posting.

[revcarol]

2. Contrast this with Bush's

"energize the fat cats" campaign.

[no name no slogan]

3. THis is so true

we turned out 1400+ people in Minneapolis for DK with a little over one week's notice on his announcement tour in October. We used the internet, but a lot of it was done the old fashioned way with door-knocking and flyering, and by contacting sympathetic businesses.