Change Starts Here
The Morgan County Indiana Democratic Committee is dedicated to serving the local community through events, volunteerism, and the support of Democratic candidates for public office. We believe that government begins locally and belongs to all of us. Join us in promoting inclusive, progressive public policies that help Hoosiers who live and work in Morgan County.
All photography provided by Morgan County Democratic Committee members
All photography provided by Morgan County Democratic Committee members
MORGAN COUNTY DEMOCRATS MONTHLY MEETING
Thursday 19 April 2018
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Community Room
Mooresville Public Library
220 West Harrison Street
Mooresville, Indiana
Indiana’s 9th District Democratic Party is composed of 13 Indiana Counties: Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Orange, Scott, and Washington.
The estimated population within the 9th District is 724,869
POLLS ARE OPEN FOR VOTING
NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO WAIT AND SEE
WHEN WE VOTE - WE WIN
WE ALSO WIN BY COMING TO OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS!
Thursday, April 19, 6:00. - 8:00
Mooresville Public Library
Community Room
220 West Harrison Street
POLICY/STRATEGY TALKING POINTS. Complied by our Treasurer, Richard Pound.
We will be discussing these and other issues and concerns - including the new Indiana Democratic Platform - now on-line for your review and comments.
If there is anything that you feel the Indiana Democratic Party is not addressing, or is not whole-heartedly addressing, now is the time to comment and make your thoughts known.
All comments and concerns will be considered in the making of the new Indiana Democratic Party Platform. This will be voted on at the State Convention by our elected State Delegates - so get out and VOTE. Use this link for viewing Draft Platform and to comment.
http://action.indems.org/page/s/2018-party-platform-draft-review
WHICH VOTERS ARE WE TRYING TO REACH?
a) Young Voters under 40?
b) Middle Aged 41 to 60?
c) Older Voters over 60?
d) Female Voters?
e) Male Voters?
f) People who regularly vote?
g) People who infrequently vote?
h) People who generally vote but didn’t in 2016?
i) Only people the County says are Democrats?
j) Include people the County designates as preference unknown?
k) Include people who generally vote Republican but didn’t in 2016 or 2008?
HOW DO WE REACH VOTERS?
a) Phone calls?
b) Knocking on doors?
c) Letters
d) Postcards
e) Advertising in the paper
f) For young voters identify teachers or youth group organizers who might help
g) Increase our social media effort?
SOCIAL MEDIA: WE HAVE MADE A GOOD START BUT CAN WE IMPROVE OUR APPROACH ON FACEBOOK AND OUR WEBSITE?
a) Our website is not being updated and offers a limited amount of information currently.
b) Our Facebook page has a limited amount of people as members and only some of them appear to be actually looking at the content. Also, the page has not been very effective in getting volunteers for events or contributions.
c) Can we make an effort to get a tech savvy person to take on some of this responsibility?
d) Should different types of content be used? Most of the content on our site is re-posting articles about the latest Trump nonsensical actions. This is what Hilary and Democrats in general did in 2016 and look how that turned out. Should we instead focus on what Democrats plan to do if elected:
1) Common sense policies on clean air and water
2) Protecting the environment
3) Responsible energy policies
4) Responsible health care policies for all Hoosiers
5) Providing strong support for public school education
6) Providing policies that ensure good paying jobs for Hoosiers, such as supporting strong unions.
7) Tax Reform that actually is Reform instead of giving the rich a windfall and a pittance to hard working Hoosiers.
HOW CAN WE INCREASE OUR CONTRIBUTIONS?
a) We currently only have one annual fundraising event – we need to increase this to two events, the first one being in early summer so the money can actually be of benefit to us.
b) We also need to send out at least one annual “begging letter” to selected people. The Humane Society sends out two annual letters and gets about $20,000 from the effort.
WE NEED TO HAVE A BUDGET WHICH REFLECTS OUR POLICY/STRATEGY
a) Our budget should reflect the type of things we want to spend our money on. We can allocate actual dollars or percentages to categories of things we want to do. If contributions don’t come in as expected we can scale back things based on their overall priority to us.
POSSIBLE BUDGET PLAN
Projected Expense
Amount
Fair and Festivals
575.00
Insurance
250.00
Post Office Box
80.00
Post Office Bulk Rate Permit
225.00
Annual Fund Raising Event
1,000.00
Mail Postcards or Letters 3 Times Per Year To Reach Our Voters
2,000.00
Mail A "Begging Letter" Asking For Contributions Once Per Year
500.00
Campaign Help For Local Candidates
300.00
Campaign Help For Our State And U.S Congress Candidates
1,500.00
Misc Costs
500.00
Total
6,930.00
HOW TO CONTACT YOUR MORGAN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Morgan County Democrats
P.O. Box 1330
Martinsville, Indiana 46151
email: info@morgancountydemocrats.net
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/145700812617970/
Website:
http://www.morgancountydemocrats.net/
ActBlue:
Making an automatic recurring monthly pledge to your local Democratic Party will ensure that we have the ability to support our local Democratic candidates in this election cycle. There are 6,300 registered Democrats in Morgan County if we had an automatic recurring monthly pledge of $8.00 a month from 1,800 Morgan County Democrats we will have the capital to support Democratic candidates and run some successful campaigns, win, and put Democrats in office in Morgan County. Help make this happen!
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