State Senate District Advocacy Strategy Session
Agenda: 3:30 – 4:30 pm Dec 4
We want to keep this brisk and so provided some suggested ideas to inform the discussion so that Roxanne and I didn’t have to talk too much, leaving more time for conversation. Keep in mind a 60 minute planning meeting with 65 people means we all need to be aware of how much time we take in our comments. Jay Levine will be moderating chat and identifying those who wish to speak and managing a queue for that. Onward
- Welcome, Intros & Ask for Additions to Agenda: RB 2 minutes
- Quick Description of Strategy for Those Who are New: RB 3 minutes
- Survey: PG 1 minute
- Bill List: How to provide input. PG 1 minute
- Update on Scale of Team Development: PG Brief Summary of Status, 2 minutes Then Discussion
Districts without Coordinators or Members
- SD !8 Bill Tallman
- SD 36 Jeff Steinborn
- SD 3 Shannon Pinto
- SD 14 Michael Padilla
- SD 31 Joseph Cervantes
- SD 38 Carrie Hamblem
- SD 4 George Muñoz
- SD 11 Linda Lopez
Team Discussion: 10 minutes
- How to Fill Districts without members; and,
- What to do with members who are in districts where we won’t need to press very good Dems or Where we have folks in GOP Districts: Discuss Possible Strategies
- How/when for coordinators to update our full list of team members?
Team Discussion: 10 minutes
- Should we organize teams for key House Reps? Egolf, Lundstrom, Committee Chairs?
- How to do this?
- Review Protocol & Plan for Online Toolkit
Outreach & Recruitment Strategies [10 minutes]
- List of people on Retake’s alert system who provided Senate Dist. (985 people)
- Calls to encourage Wards, Indivisibles, Adelante, PDA, WFP, Taos United and others to recruit people.
- Letters to the editor about bills, including reference to how you can raise your voice through Retake Senate Network, plans for Zoom discussions with Senators in December
- Hosting your own District Team Zooms to motivate members to make calls, send emails to invite others to join
- Other ideas?
Tool Kit [5 minutes]
- How to use Doodle [Done]
- How to schedule a Zoom meeting [Done]
- List of media contacts statewide [Done]
- Letter to the editor suggestions [Done]
- Recruitment email suggestions [Done]
- List of all Dem Senators with Contract info [Done]
- One-pagers on all 15 Transformational Bills [By the end of the week]
- Video by Roxanne on Setting up MY ROUNDHOUSE so people can more easily advocate on the other bills ….or any bill for which they may want to voice support [In Two weeks]
- Is there anything else people feel would make the work easier?
- Discussion of Senator Engagement Strategies [15 minutes]
First Contact
- One-on-one or small group discussion to establish relationship
- Send bill list in advance
- Acknowledge that we understand that legislators can’t possibly be experts on every bill and so one of our most important roles as constituents will be to identify where you have concerns or questions about bills and find the answers and to support your major legislative priorities
- Ask Senator what his/her priorities are
- Ask if there are any bills on our list where they have concerns and ask what they are.
- Let him/her know we will do our best to get answers to his/her questions.
- Schedule larger zoom with the entire team
- Other ideas????? Comments???
Second Contact
- Acknowledge again that we understand that legislators can’t possibly be experts on every bill and so one of our most important roles as constituents will be to identify where you have concerns or questions about bills and find the answers and to support your major legislative priorities
- Ask Senator what his/her priorities are
- Ask if there are any bills on our list where they have concerns and ask what they are.
- Let him/her know we will do our best to get answers to his/her questions.
Next Meeting: December 11. 3:30 pm.