TODAY’S TOP TEN

things you can do to get votes for

Jim McKenna for AG

TODAY you can still INFLUENCE at least TEN PEOPLE to vote for Jim McKenna.  I know this for certain because YESTERDAY I personally did these things.  I’m providing them here as suggestions from which each of you can draw, and/or deviate to get Jim the vote tomorrow.  THIS is the FINAL STRETCH.  We can do this!

1)    Talk to the cashier – doesn’t matter if it’s when you’re picking up your dry cleaning or at the grocery store.  The young cashier looked old enough to vote, so I steered the conversation by asking if she was all set to vote Tuesday.  She said that because of her birthday, she missed the ability to register for this election by just a few days and was very frustrated.  I said, but you can still influence your friends who are of age and registered to vote, and gave her talking points, on Jim, of course.  She seemed genuinely pleased that she could still contribute to this election, AND to learn about Jim.

2)    Pumping Gas – a gentleman and I were pumping gas simultaneously, he on the other side.  I struck up a conversation about the election on Tuesday, and as soon as practical, broke into the importance of the Attorney General and my outrage of the corruption in politics.  Not too many people don’t agree it’s rampant, and that’s when I distinguish Jim, and his platform of going after that, no matter which side of the pump they are on.  CORRUPTION is non-partisan. 

3)    Getting coffee – this one is the easiest.  There is always someone in line with you, and talking about the movie “Conviction” is a great way to segue into politics without their realizing.  Talking about the injustices of innocent people in jail for years naturally leads to a whole family wrongfully incarcerated – the Ameraults, and well, if they don’t know about that, then TELL THEM. (I also have discovered that even if people know about the movie, they don’t necessarily know Marsha’s connection to it, so you just got an easy way to tie her to both.  Then you talk about Jim McKenna.

4)    In the aisles – One woman was asking another woman for advice on an item she was considering, so I chimed in with mine.  Further down the isle I simply asked if they happened to know about Jim McKenna.  They did not, and were surprised and fascinated that they had an alternative to Martha Coakley, a name they were familiar with, and didn’t much care for.  I told them how very critical their, and anyone they could influence, votes would be to getting a new Attorney General, and "asked" them to please vote for him.

5)    In the ladies room – Okay.  I don’t know how well conversation works in the men’s room, but I walked in when a little girl was wiggling her tooth in the mirror, and her mother told her it would probably come out ‘tonight’.  I told the little girl I had just heard that the tooth fairy was in the area, and wondered if that was why.  We had a great conversation about the tooth, and before I left, I asked the little girl if she could make sure her mother voted for Jim McKenna, cause he would then be the top cop in the State of Massachusetts, and would go after all the bad guys.  The mother was already delighted with my tooth fairy confirmation so I simply finished the AG conversation with the mother, who promised her vote for McKenna.

6)    On the car.- everywhere I go I stick a McKenna push card on the driver’s side of every car in my path.  It’s guaranteed that several who get it did NOT know about McKenna, and what he stands for.  If you have nothing to leave behind, and want to generically make a difference in this election, check out printing these, (two-sided):

7)    Your relatives – everyone has at least one relative they can motivate to the polls that wouldn’t ordinarily care.  Make them care.

8)    Your friends and neighbors – ditto the above, but make it a dozen!

9)    Your vendors – In my case, my oilman was making a delivery, but it could be your mailman, your visit to the doctors, daycare, or your vet.  Anywhere you go, tell them about McKenna.  Nine times out of ten, they’re all ears.

10)          Apathy – I have found that people who simply can’t be bothered to vote, or think it is useless, can even be motivated when you explain to them what is going on out there, uninterrupted, and tell them what Jim wants to do about it.  Borrow from the various themes above, but when all else fails, tell them about the curling iron, and how a monster was not even charged for almost two years while the police can arrest a ham sandwich if they want to.  Tell them to google it if they have any doubts, and tell them how important THEIR vote is.

This is it folks, and it is NOT TOO LATE.  Give it everything you’ve got, from sun up to sundown, to get every last vote we can for Jim  McKenna to be our next ATTORNEY GENERAL.

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