Saturday, August 1, 2015

FL 17th and 18th Cong'l districts picked

The Florida 17th and 18th Congressional districts have been picked to begin our tweeting plan (see The tweeting plan).

The Florida 17th Congressional district is in south central Florida and is represented by Rep. Tom Rooney, who is a Republican. The Florida 18th Congressional district is nearby, situated on the Florida east coast, and is represented by Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat. (Florida's Representatives in Congress, and maps of their districts, can be found in the Wikipedia article Florida's congressional districts.)

Our tweeting campaign in Florida's 17th and 18th districts will be to instigate debate between Rep. Rooney and Rep. Murphy about the recently published political document entitled Fighting Big Money, Empowering People: A 21st Century Democracy Agenda. The document, which was published in July by a coalition of 12 organizations, should be read in full. It is not a long document and you should be able to read it quickly.

We believe that the document raises issues of utmost importance that should be addressed by all Americans, and by the constituents of Rep. Rooney and Rep. Murphy in the Florida 17th and 18th districts.

We believe this matter is not about left against right, or about Republicans against Democrats.

Rather we believe this matter is about us voter outsiders against Washington insiders.

Even though some us are from outside the 17th and 18th districts, we consider it justified to intrude into the districts and endeavor to instigate debate between Rep. Rooney and Rep. Murphy.

Such a debate will, of course, not occur unless residents of the 17th and 18 districts call on Rep. Rooney and Rep. Murphy to engage in the debate.

Our tweeting campaign will endeavor to publicize to residents the Fighting Big Money, Empowering People: A 21st Century Democracy Agenda document, and to make an urgent case to them why they should call on  Rep. Rooney and Rep. Murphy to debate the document.

We will start our campaign by soliciting the participation of campaign finance reformers around the country.

As initial suggestions for what to tweet, and to whom to tweet, we offer these, whether you are outside the 17th and 18th districts, or are residents of them:

Everyone should tweet this to Rep. Rooney:
And everyone should tweet this to Rep. Murphy:

For doing more tweeting, go to the follower list of Rep. Murphy, which is here, and proceed through it, try to identify persons who are in the 18th district, and send this tweet to them individually:
@______ Please tell @RepMurphyFL to debate with Rep. @TomRooney about this http://campaignfinancereformers.blogspot.com/2015/08/fl-17th-and-18th-congl-districts-picked.html. #lead4reform Thank you.

And go to the follower list of Rep. Rooney, which is here, and proceed through it, try to identify persons who are in the 17th district, and send this tweet to them individually:

@______ Please tell Rep. @TomRooney to debate with @RepMurphyFL about this http://campaignfinancereformers.blogspot.com/2015/08/fl-17th-and-18th-congl-districts-picked.html. #lead4reform Thank you.

Campaign tracking and implementation updates
8/2
Tweets are in the process of being sent to campaign finance reformers, giving links to this blog entry.
There have been 75 page views of this blog entry.
Hootsuite templates are being prepared for use.
8/3
I don't know who is viewing this blog entry currently, but there has been a surge in page views, and the total number of page views is now over 650.
8/3 #2
@AllenLEllison, who indicates he is a candidate in FL17, should be drawn into this.

8/4
See Grassroots reformers are making a difference
8/5
See We are ready for more districts to target
Total page views of this page are over 5,600.
8/6
See Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and CFR
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