Gearing Up For Door-Knocking Season

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Trish Nelson

Door-knocking season is here.  This action alert from Rep. J.D. Scholten offers some great tips on door-knocking for new volunteers.  J.D. suggests don’t go out alone and I agree.

I’ve knocked on many doors over the years.   I’ve never had anything bad happen, but many folks who are otherwise politically active, just won’t do it.  At best, it is not much fun. You have to remind yourself  that you are doing your part to save democracy.  But let’s be honest, it’s not anyone’s idea of a good time.

So listen to J.D.  Find a friend to take along and have fun!

Happy Thursday!

Action alert from Rep. J.D. Scholten:

When I’m not throwing strikes for the Sioux City Explorers, I’m usually training volunteers on how to knock doors for the first time, and I always tell them these five guidelines to help them be successful:

  • Always take a friend with you.
  • If you don’t feel safe on a doorstep, leave and go somewhere you do feel safe.
  • Always mark the doors you stopped at on MiniVan.
  • DRINK LOTS OF WATER.
  • And, have fun! We’re here to make friends and build connections!

Grassroots organizing works because that is how we build community, make friends, and share our values with those around us. It’s deeply powerful and it can change the trajectory of our state. But that doesn’t mean it is not hard work.

We are just a few days from our July 15th fundraising deadline and we are still $412 from our deadline goal. Can you step up to the plate and help us reach our goal and power this grassroots work by donating today?

Step up to the plate, donate today!

Successful organizing requires people who can recruit and train volunteers, pass out yard signs and door-lit, and help us change our community for the better. But that all takes resources and time.

We are running a grassroots campaign because this is how we can Stand Tall for all of our friends, neighbors, and community members. Grassroots donations and organizing are the only way we can win in November because without grassroots support, far-right extremists will win every time.

Our community deserves more than a far-right lackey who will do everything Governor Reynolds asks him to do. We need a leader who will stand up for reproductive rights, struggling families, common sense gun reform, and the priorities of our community.

I am Standing Tall for All and I need you to stand with me. Grassroots movements take time and resources. We still have time before November, but can you chip in $11 and give us the resources to keep knocking doors and having the conversations that will help us fight for our community?

Stand Tall for All,

J.D.

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SOB William Calley Is Dead

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Paul Deaton
Lieutenant William Calley mugshot at his arrest for charges involving the My Lai Massacre. Photo Credit – Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.

The Washington Post reported Monday that William Calley died at age 80 on April 28 in a Florida hospice. It is fitting he died in obscurity. He will not be missed.

More than anything else about the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre, for which he was found personally guilty of murdering 20 people, epitomized my view of what was wrong with the war. In all, U.S. estimates place the number of dead in the operation between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians, most of whom were women, children, or elderly men. My Lai had a profound influence on me, leading me to protest the war in the streets as information about it slowly became public.

I wrote about Calley in my memoir of entering the military:

The combination of willingness to serve and the end of the Vietnam war led me to seek out the Army recruiter and set aside concerns about risking my life by saying it was better for peace lovers to join the military and lead, rather than leave it to the likes of Lieutenant William Calley, the convicted war criminal who was responsible for the 1968 My Lai Massacre.

Calley was an example of what was worst about the military during the Vietnam era. The March 16, 1968, My Lai Massacre of more than 500 people, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed, was particularly on my mind. We could do better than that. I believed the only way to address problems like My Lai was for people like me, who valued non-violent means of conflict resolution and common decency, to enter the military and do a better job of leading it. Later, in 1976, while I was stationed at Fort Benning, William Calley was locked up in the stockade.

Father’s military service played a role in my decision, as did the opportunity of youth and being single. I have no regrets in following Father’s footsteps and joining the Army. Why did I enlist? I felt the U.S. Army at the end of the Vietnam War was a despicable mess. (An Iowa Life, Unpublished Memoir of Paul Deaton)

The Washington Post story is a reasonable history of that time and Calley’s role in Vietnam. I recommend reading it here. This passage from the article rings true.

Almost from the very beginning, Mr. Calley polarized Americans who variously deemed him a war criminal or a scapegoat, a mass murderer or an inexperienced officer made to take the fall for the actions of his superiors. Defenders argued that he had been forced into a brutal conflict with an often invisible enemy, then blamed for the horrors of the war. (William Calley, Army officer and face of My Lai Massacre, is dead at 80, by Harrison Smith, Emily Langer, Brian Murphy, and Adam Bernstein. Washington Post, July 29, 2024).

While I was attending Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning in 1976, Calley was across base in the stockade. I had conversations with other officer candidates who felt Calley was a scapegoat. I maintained he was an incompetent murderer. May he burn in hell for all eternity.

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Working In Our Own Community

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Paul Deaton
Rural Polling Place

Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) said this week, “I really encourage you to think about what you can do in your community.” She was talking about supporting Kamala Harris for president. I find her statement significant because of the inward-turning focus on things we can each do to turn out voters for our candidates.

During the last two years, I wrote repeatedly that traditional voter activation methods don’t bring the rewards they once did. It is comforting to work in a campaign office, knock on doors, make phone calls, write postcards, attend fund raisers, and the like. As we embrace such comfort, we can also walk away from the people we may most likely influence in our personal social circles. Traditional activities don’t apply the same way in rural communities like in Michigan or Iowa where there are a lot of them. It simply takes more time to door knock rural voters. Time that could be spent more productively.

Certainly if a person feels comfortable letting someone else design a campaign’s work, and you get along with staff and other volunteers, go for it! Most campaigns do good work, and they have trouble covering their assigned turf. Similarly, state legislature candidates work in a different universe than a county, U.S. House district, or statewide campaign. Joining a specific state legislative campaign brings a different focus to the work. By their nature, they require a broader appeal and a focus on which no party and Republican Party voters can be persuaded to vote for them. Voters usually can get to know the candidate personally.

While there is no longer a coordinated campaign in Iowa, those organizations did a marginal job of covering the bases all the way down the ballot. It has always been incumbent on state house candidates to track their own activities and results unless their district is a densely populated urban area. This speaks to the difference between working a campaign and winning an election. The latter is most important.

The Democratic Party offers structure and training for people to work more on their own. I recommend people wanting a do-it-yourself, individual path to helping elect Democrats check out the training portal, located here. What I am finding is the Reach application helps me post on social media in a meaningful way. The Discord server is wild but still has a lot of Democrats united in purpose. The automated reminders get a little annoying, yet they serve to keep me on track. This is perfect for people who have trouble traveling to the local campaign office, work outside the home, or have child or elder care responsibilities at home. Life is what you make it, and many of us have an independent streak in us. This is a sanctioned and positive way to get involved.

What can we do in our communities to elect Kamala Harris and down ballot Democrats? Answering the question starts with taking a moment to analyze how we fit into society. So do it. Don’t take too long as the counter shows less than 98 days until the election.

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Join Kamala Harris On Zoom Tomorrow

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Paul Deaton

Today marks 99 days until Election Day — and I could not be more excited to be out on the campaign trail.

Over the last week, we have seen unprecedented support for our campaign across the country, with over 170,000 new volunteers signing up to take action and more than 2,300 events in battleground states.

It is going to take all of us contributing a little bit of our time to win in November, and I want to make sure I have a chance to thank you for everything you have already done to support our campaign. So on Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. ET, we’re holding a virtual call with every member of this people-powered team to talk through what is at stake, the freedoms we’re fighting for, and how you can help us win. Can you join me?

Here are the details:

What: National Organizing Call with Vice President Kamala Harris
When: Tuesday, July 30 at 7:15 p.m. ET

Access a replay of this event on YouTube here.

RSVP HERE

It has meant so much to me and Doug to see all the energy and excitement you have poured into this campaign in just the last week. Now, it is time to channel that passion into conversations with our friends and neighbors to make sure they know what is at stake and have everything they need to cast their vote.

I am excited to talk with you tomorrow about how we are going to win this election. Click here to RSVP now, and we will send you all the details you need to join the call.

Thanks for everything you have done so far, and talk soon.

Kamala

Kamala Harris
Vice President of the United States

Kamala Harris
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It’s Been A Week Since Biden Endorsed Harris

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Paul Deaton
Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo Credit – Official White House portrait

The week since President Joe Biden announced he would not accept the nomination for president has been a roller coaster. From the immediate relief and hope of people glad Biden stepped aside, to the backlash of right wing politicians, emotions have run a gamut. When the 45th president spent time at a Friday campaign rally calling Kamala Harris “liberal” and claiming that “Democrats replacing Biden on the ticket amounts to a ‘coup,’” we know our target was successfully engaged. Some sources report a polling surge for Harris: as many as six points in key states. A single poll is not definitive, yet it is a positive sign Harris’ elevation to the top place on the ballot is positive to many voters.

The 98 days remaining before the November election is not a lot of time. Republicans and their foreign backers are expected to make quick work of returning to the misogyny-laden campaign of 2016. While Kamala Harris arguably possesses more positive attributes than Hillary Clinton did — and less negative baggage — she will be the target using a playbook developed by the Trump campaign in the run up to the 2016 election. I wrote about this in a letter to the editor of Little Village Magazine.

A lot changed in political campaigns since I worked my first for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Democrats and Republicans are now at a place where established patterns repeat each cycle: marching in parades, having a booth at the county fair, putting up sign advertising, and canvassing voters. These may be comforting, yet campaign action has moved.

Both major parties use big data to inform their campaigns.

Perhaps the most dramatic change was the way Trump campaigns used Facebook and Cambridge Analytica to scrape personal data about tens of millions of voters from the internet, and then custom target voters with tens of thousands of distinct daily ads designed to either persuade people to vote for Trump or not vote at all.

Progressive radio host Thom Hartmann wrote that on the day of the third presidential debate in October 2020, team Trump ran 175,000 variations of ads micro-targeting voters. These ads were, for the most part, not publicly seen.

This is way beyond showing up to meet candidates at a county fair.

Despite this use of technology, elections reduce to staying engaged with candidates, and working to cast an informed vote. That pressure from social media to disengage from politics? Someone is working to make us feel that way. We must resist and vote for who best serves our interests. (Letter to the Editor of Little Village Magazine, Paul Deaton, July 15, 2022).

There is a clear wave of support for Kamala Harris as she became the presumptive nominee. Donations to her campaign surged, as did the number of new volunteers. Republicans are already saying, just seven days in, that Harris won’t survive the boost in popularity, that it will be transient and gone before we know it. With 98 days until the election, we have little time for self-doubt. We must roll up our sleeves and get to work because so much is at stake in the November election.

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Rob Sand Found Bucks, Zach Wahls Lays Them Out

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Paul Deaton
State Auditor Rob Sand

(Editor’s Note: State Auditor Rob Sand is doing the work to find bucks for Iowa taxpayers despite being collared by the Reynolds administration. The July 23 report to which State Senator Zach Wahls referred in his newsletter is important for the increased visibility Sand gave to excessive costs flying under the radar. Wahls explanation is excellent, and worth reading if you live in Iowa).

Accountability in Education Matters Now More Than Ever by State Senator Zach Wahls

Our state government belongs to the people. It should work for all Iowans, their families, and communities. This can’t happen without transparency from its legislators, especially when Iowa taxpayer dollars are on the line. You have a right to know how your tax dollars are being used – but when it comes to Iowa’s private-school voucher program, that’s not what’s happening.

This alarming lack of transparency and accountability was confirmed in a July 23 report from Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand, which details the exorbitant amount of money Iowa taxpayers are shelling out to Odyssey, the private out-of-state corporation in charge of administering Republican lawmakers’ voucher scheme.

But let’s back up for a moment – how did we get here?

In 2023, Gov. Reynolds and Republican lawmakers rushed their voucher plan into law with little regard for public concern. In its first year, it cost Iowa taxpayers nearly $128 million to send a small percentage of the state’s students to private schools. Now in its second year, 30,000 Iowa students have been approved for vouchers for 2024 — that’s about 13,000 more than in 2023. If all 30,000 of those vouchers are used, the cost to Iowa taxpayers tops out at over $200 million for the coming school year alone.

In the 18 months since the law was passed, the Iowa Department of Education has released no meaningful data on private school acceptance rates or student turnover. Without this information, Iowans have no way of knowing whether this program actually provides new options for Iowa kids, or if it’s just a giveaway for families who have already chosen private education.

While this question remains unanswered, the cost to Iowa’s taxpayers will continue to balloon: In 2025, all Iowa families – regardless of how wealthy – will be eligible to receive vouchers to attend private schools that require no oversight, no transparency, and no obligation to admit students who wish to enroll.

In response to the voucher law, Iowa’s private schools saw an opportunity and raised tuition to amounts exceeding the $7,638 per pupil tuition voucher allotment. In doing so, private schools largely priced out new families: according to Princeton University researchers, two-thirds of Iowa students receiving vouchers in 2023 were already attending private school and could afford tuition prior to receiving a voucher.

This lack of accountability isn’t just shortchanging Iowa taxpayers – it’s affecting our kids, too.

In its first year, the voucher program effectively siphoned $54 million away from Iowa’s already-underfunded public education system. As income-eligibility limits for vouchers are lifted, this inequity will only continue to grow, resulting in deeper cuts to public programs Iowans and their families depend upon.

For far too long, our underfunded public school districts have grappled with difficult decisions to cut staff or programming. Now, some are trying to decide whether to close altogether. As voucher eligibility expands in coming years, more funding for public education will surely be cut to offset the cost of subsidizing tuition for our state’s wealthiest families.

The bottom line is this: Iowa taxpayers have the right to judge for themselves whether the voucher program is effectively serving the educational needs of our children. As recipients of taxpayer dollars, our public schools must adhere to strict transparency and accountability in their budgeting, policy decisions, and enrollment decisions. That’s impossible to do with private schools that accept vouchers, as there’s no legal requirement for them to disclose any of this information – despite being partially funded with taxpayer money.

It’s our job as policymakers to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse. Iowans deserve transparency and accountability from all elected officials – especially when tax dollars are at play. If we continue to collectively sound the alarm on questionable spending of public funds, together we can strengthen and protect our state’s educational system.

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New Way To Canvass

Posted on July 27, 2024 by Paul Deaton
2012 Organizing For America Door Hanger

Just like that, there is excitement in the air as Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president. It’s hard to believe it was less than a week ago. The dynamics of everything political changed. Many more people find themselves asking, “What can I do to help?” Historian and political journalist Heather Cox Richardson reported the excitement Friday morning:

People are turning out for Harris in impressive numbers. In the hours after she launched her campaign, Win With Black Women rallied 44,000 Black women on Zoom and raised $1.6 million. On Monday, around 20,000 Black men rallied to raise $1.2 million. Tonight, challenged to “answer the call,” 164,000 white women joined an event that “broke Zoom” and raised more than $2 million (UPDATE: $8.5 million) and tens of thousands of new volunteers. (Letters from an American, July 25, 2024. Heather Cox Richardson).

Thursday I took training from the Democratic National Committee in online engagement. There were so many people in the session, it load tested the applications they use. The surge of participation is palpable. It is also a good thing 100 days before the election.

What should we do to help elect Democrats?

The answer to this question is not what you may think: contact the local party and volunteer to knock doors, make phone calls, write post cards, donate money, and host events. Some campaigns need these things, yet they can become a placeholder that prevents more effective campaign work.

About door knocking. The 2022 election cycle was my last experience door knocking and it was an eye opener. I tried to make it to every door knocking event that was in my county and in my state house district. To a person, people contacted required no additional information about the election or candidates. They knew the candidates, had a plan to vote, and did it mostly on their own. If they were not going to vote, no entreaties from me would change their minds. People yelled at me from behind closed doors, “Go away!” The world has changed since I re-activated in politics during the 2004 campaign.

Where door knocking continues to pay dividends is when the candidate does it themself. In an Iowa state house race, this interaction is crucial. In a U.S. House District, it is impractical because of the size of the districts. The further up the ticket, the less important door knocking becomes. The most vigorous door knocking campaigns by a presidential campaign I recall were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In those campaigns, especially in 2008, we contacted every voter we could think of, and phoned or door knocked until the polls closed. The takeaway from those three campaigns was if one is door knocking, a lot depends upon the database and the person writing walk lists. One only gets so much time at the door. If I were to door knock for Kamala Harris today, how would the down ballot races be handled? Voter history and existing data may not be as important in 2024 as it once was.

Door knocking is not as effective today as working our own personal networks with existing relationships with voters. In a previous post I wrote:

I was on the board of a local non-profit supporting the elderly. People would help out and we were glad for the help. Some made it very clear they didn’t want to get into discussions about politics as they knew some of us were Democrats who often wrote letters to the editor to the newspaper. We were able to do some good things with that group and we didn’t really suffer by holding off on political talk. (Don’t Talk Politics, Blog for Iowa. Paul Deaton).

What I am proposing, and what the Democratic National Committee is recommending, is to know whether people in such groups are with us on a candidate. That’s whether or not the group talks politics. In this election, with Trump on the ballot, and new restrictions on when an abortion is permissible in Iowa, we will count on a large number of voters who split the ticket. This type of canvassing is more complicated than asking a yes or no question at a stranger’s door and faithfully recording it in a database. The presumed depth of knowledge about our relationships should lend ease to how we proceed both to and from the voter identification phase.

The organizing about which I’m talking here is simple and straightforward. I’ve written before about “the way Trump campaigns used Facebook and Cambridge Analytica to scrape personal data about tens of millions of voters from the internet, and then custom targeted voters with tens of thousands of distinct daily ads designed to either persuade people to vote for Trump or not vote at all.” That is a different bag of cats than the idea of working with people you know to identify Democratic supporters and encouraging them to vote based on a personal relationship.

With a new presumptive nominee, this may be a new and needed way to canvass

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Kamala Harris And The A Word

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Paul Deaton
The picture is the message. Photo Credit – Trish Nelson from RAGBRAI 2024.

Editor’s Note: Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly are must-read authors this election cycle.

Abortion faded from the spotlight. Harris is trying to bring it back

Megan Messerly and Alice Miranda Ollstein for Politico

Democrats for the last month have been too busy fighting over whether President Joe Biden should lead the ticket to keep voters’ attention on abortion. Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to bring the focus back.

On Monday, Harris told campaign staff in Wilmington, Delaware, that she would prevent Republicans from enacting a national ban because “the government should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.” On Tuesday, she concluded a rally in a Milwaukee suburb by promising to sign legislation that would “restore reproductive freedoms.” And on Wednesday, the Harris campaign said it plans to counter former President Donald Trump’s rally in Charlotte with an abortion-focused event in North Carolina featuring Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather when she was 12.

Democrats have made abortion rights a cornerstone of the 2024 campaign, but Biden’s disastrous debate and a month’s worth of questions over whether his campaign could continue sidelined the issue that the party has used to boost their electoral prospects since Roe v. Wade was overturned two years ago.

As Harris begins to delineate herself as a presumptive presidential nominee rather than Biden’s running mate, she is leaning into abortion to mobilize voters as she builds out the rest of her policy platform.

Recommend reading the rest of the article at Politico at this link.

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Why Beating Trump Is Absolutely Necessary

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Paul Deaton
Kamala Harris addressing the global climate talks in Dubai last fall. Photo Credit – Bill McKibben Website

This article is from the Bill McKibben substack The Crucial Years.

The Stakes: Why Beating Trump Is Absolutely Necessary

This epochal presidential campaign entered a new and I think more hopeful phase yesterday—I’m feeling buoyant, and ready to get to work. At least for a day, it feels like Kamala has a true fighting chance, and my oh my is that a fine feeling.

But first I want to remind everyone of why it matters so much. And that’s because the climate catastrophe is now playing out in real time. She may be the last president able to truly help stem the tide. Here’s a new study that shows “a large decline in the land carbon sink in 2023.” The paper—rushed into circulation this week by its alarmed authors—shows that the earth’s forests and soils absorbed considerably less carbon than usual last year, because the Canadian wildfires and widespread droughts reduced their ability to soak up the gas from the atmosphere. As Evrim Yazgin explained in Cosmos magazine,

In other words, the authors suggest, the warming already caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases may be creating a feedback loop in which increased temperatures and dryness are weakening carbon sinks which leads to increased emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

The authors warn: “If very high warming rates continue in the next decade and negatively impact the land sink as they did in 2023, it calls for urgent action to enhance carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gasses emissions to net zero before reaching a dangerous level of warming at which natural CO2 sinks may no longer provide to humanity the mitigation service they have offered so far by absorbing half of human induced CO2 emissions.”

To read the entire article and some of Harris’ history related to climate action, click here.

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Normalization Of The Crazy

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Paul Deaton
Mariannette Miller-Meeks at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 13, 2010. Photo Credit – Wikimedia Commons.

Public polling before the primary showed Democrat Christina Bohannan with an edge over Mariannette Miller-Meeks, within the margin of error. In her first match up with the Iowa City Democrat, Miller-Meeks won easily, 162,947 to 142,173. Erosion of her margin in polling indicates her growing unpopularity. Five Thirty Eight shows a June 30-July 4 poll of 375 likely voters, sponsored by the Bohannan campaign, with Miller-Meeks +1. While one shouldn’t make too much of a single poll, Bohannan appears to be closing the gap from the 2022 election.

What is going on? Miller-Meeks and her ill-advised takes on important issues are not that popular with both Republicans and No Party voters. She has to do something about that, and re-engineering her public-facing presence to appear less crazy may be it.

The main evidence of Miller-Meeks’ unpopularity was the June 4 Republican primary election. She defeated challenger David Pautsch 16,529 to 12,981 yet lost five counties, including Scott, the largest in the district. The other losses were in Clinton, Des Moines, Jones, and Washington Counties. This was not a good showing for an incumbent elected twice previously to office. Pautsch’s messaging was voters were “ticked off” with the Congress. “Principle is more important than power,” Pautsch said. By that he means right wing conservative principles. He got some traction among Republicans with that, painting Miller-Meeks as not right-wing enough.

Beginning June 25, Miller-Meeks began a new series of emails from a different official U.S. House address. I’ve been receiving her weekly newsletter from another address since October 2021, the year she was sworn in. Something different is going on. Why a new newsletter? I call it “normalization of the crazy.” Instead of presenting as the Trump-loving enthusiast she is, Miller-Meeks is posing as a “normal Congresswoman.” In her last new email, she wrote, “If you ever need assistance or have concerns that need addressing, please don’t hesitate to reach out to my office. My team and I are here to help!” Everyone who believes that, stand on your head. Seldom has she responded to my notes to her office.

The first of the new emails was an invitation to a telephone town hall. The second promoted HR2, the Republican Secure the Border Act, and the SAVE Act “that requires states to obtain proof of citizenship – in person – when registering an individual to vote in a federal election.” The third was a brief summary of some of her main issues and an invitation to subscribe to her regular newsletter and connect on social media. All three messages promoted her regular newsletter. While these messages seem innocuous, and a Democrat holding her office might send something similar with different issues, her need for a more professional image is evident. She is trying too hard.

Miller-Meeks’ main issues, that recur in the messages I receive, are related to the U.S. border with Mexico and gas and oil production and pricing. She aligns with the top of the Republican ticket on these. Border control is bad, other countries are releasing Hannibal Lector-type mental illness patients into the U.S. Gasoline prices are too high and the solution is more exploration of oil and natural gas within the U.S. Trump seems crazy when he talks about these issues and Miller-Meeks is closely aligned with his policy. That may not get her reelected, hence the new image.

Instead of accepting the charade, help Christina Bohannan and Democrats defeat Miller-Meeks. Here is a link to Bohannan’s website.

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