[fvc-wat-disc] Fwd: Large MMP Signs for Your Local Campaign

[Angela Yenssen]

I have a car and can drive wherever is necessary on Thursday evening to put
up signs.  I have none of the equipment required to drive the stakes and
lack the physical coordination to do this job without assistance, so I will
need a volunteer to come with me to help post the signs.  I suggest that we
make a plan for distributing the signs around the region (who will cover
what territory) at the meeting tomorrow evening.

Angela

  

From: fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org
[mailto:fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of Derek Kraan
Sent: October 1, 2007 8:07 PM
To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] Fwd: Large MMP Signs for Your Local Campaign

 

Hi all,

The plans for large signs have changed. Apparently the provincial campaign
has gone ahead and ordered 1000 large signs, and I have asked for 80 of
these (since the limit is 20 per riding and we have four). I've already
replied to the above email. 

So, this affects our plans in two ways:
1. We now have $1000 more to spend than we had originally thought. This is a
good thing rather than a bad thing, so let's everyone put on their thinking
caps and think of ways to do this creatively and effectively. 

2. We will have 80 signs. These signs don't come with stakes. They also
don't come with sledgehammers, or a knowledge of the regional bylaws
regarding the use of election signs. We need to organize to get these signs
up pronto. 

Regional Bylaws:
http://www.city.waterloo.on.ca/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabID=589 

http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/Docid/06175693979A892A85256C
5D005576AE?OpenDocument 

This is what we need:

160 - five foot long pointed stakes; two for each sign. Will someone with a
car purchase these? You will be reimbursed if you keep the receipt. 

Teams to get ALL these signs up on Thursday afternoon / evening and Friday
afternoon / evening.  Those with cars who can drive and those without cars
who can drive stakes into the ground should pair up. Each team will need (1)
staple gun with staples or heavy-duty screwdriver with screws and (2) a
sledgehammer to drive the stakes into the ground. 

We will also need one person who can drive to Toronto to get our signs on
Wednesday evening. They will fill the back of your car. By my estimation,
the dimensions will be three feet by four feet by three feet (3x4x3).
Contact me for more information if you can do this. 

One last note, if nobody can go canvassing malls with Tracey on Thursday
afternoon, then perhaps I will suggest to her that she can be my driver, and
that we can go around putting up large signs. I'm willing to take an
afternoon off for this. 

Please reply to this email if you have any of the supplies mentioned above
(sledgehammers and staple guns especially) or can volunteer time (and when
that time is) to either drive or drive stakes.

Thanks everyone! 

Derek Kraan
Vote for MMP Campaign
Waterloo Region

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Kraan < derek.kraan at gmail.com <mailto:derek.kraan at gmail.com> >
Date: 1 okt. 2007 19:42
Subject: Re: Large MMP Signs for Your Local Campaign
To: Gary Shaul <garyshaul at gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Black < peter.black at sympatico.ca>

Hi Gary,

This is Derek Kraan. My phone number is: 519-342-5345. I'm representing the
regional campaign for Waterloo Region. We have 4 ridings
(Kitchener-Waterloo, Kitchener-Centre, Cambridge and Kitchener-Conestoga) to
take care of, and we will be able to use the full 80 signs. 

I'm pretty sure that we can pick them up in Toronto, but I'm not sure about
the details yet.

Cheers,

Derek Kraan
Vote for MMP Campaign
Waterloo Region

2007/10/1, Peter Black <peter.black at sympatico.ca>:

Dear Riding Captains, Chapter Presidents and Regional Coordinators (and any
unintentional recipients! )

Dave Scrymgeour, head of field support, has had to leave the campaign. Gary
Shaul and I have volunteered to "pinch hit" for the remainder of the
Campaign to assist/support your efforts in the field, where the grassroots
campaign grows in strength every day.

We will send an email tomorrow on other ways to get your message out, but
our focus in this email is getting large MMP signs, paid for by the
provincial campaign, into your hands as soon as possible.

Today, we ordered 1000 large signs (48" x 30"), two-sided, for putting up in
public places (not on private lawns unless they're on a busy road). They
should be put up where the most people will see them, day after day.

They will be ready sometime on Wednesday when we will take them to 3 depots
in Toronto (west, centre, east, locations TBD) for easier pick-up.

We can get them into your hands in one of two ways:

(1)     you send someone to Toronto late Wednesday or (more likely) Thursday
to pick them up 

(2)     if you cannot do that, we will find a way to have them delivered to
you (we're looking at buses or vans to depart Toronto on Thursday) 

In order to install these signs, you need: 

Supplies - the central campaign will reimburse you for wooden stakes with
receipt 

(1)  two 5 foot long pointed stakes for each sign 

(2)  hardware: screws, washers OR heavy duty staples

(3)   tools: electric screwdriver OR heavy duty staple gun, mallet,
sledgehammer or axe to bang in the stakes

Locations

(1) locations vary from community to community - high traffic is key

(2) do not put signs on private property without permission

Sign crew volunteers

organize volunteers to put them up ASAP - Thursday night or Friday night or
Saturday morning.

We need to know from each of you how many signs you could use . There are
about 70 ridings (ex Ottawa, which has enough signs) which have riding
captains or active Regional Coordinators. If everyone wanted their share,
each riding could have 14 signs. Since not all will have the capacity to
make use of this order, however, we'll offer 20 signs for each riding that
wants them. And, if we run out, we run out. Better to have a few ridings
without signs than many signs without ridings.

So, please contact Gary Shaul ASAP by email ( garyshaul at gmail.com
<mailto:garyshaul at gmail.com> ) and copy me with the following info:

Your name

Phone Number

Name of Riding(s)

Number of Signs (up to 20 per riding) you could use

Either now, or soon if you don't know yet, tell us whether you could pick
them up, can meet our truck along the way or are able to relay them to other
ridings along the way.

Let's show Ontario that MMP strength is spreading every day and everywhere!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers

Peter Black

Ottawa Coordinator (pinch hitting for the provincial campaign)

613-828-1401

 

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