[fvc-wat-disc] Fwd: Help on Twitter on committee days

[Kevin Smith]

Hi Sharon:

Are there evening spots for this?

Kevin.

On Jul 11, 2016 5:19 PM, "Sharon Sommerville" <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello FairVoters!
>
> We received this request from Anita Nickerson last week.   We are in
> urgent need of people to tweet questions to the Electoral Reform Committee
> in late July.  We were out numbered by people asking for a referendum last
> week and really need to do better.
>
> Details are in the letter below.  If you can help, could you contact Anita
> and cc me so I don't bother you again!
>
> With thanks,
> Sharon
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson at fairvote.ca>
> Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:30 PM
> Subject: Help on Twitter on committee days
> To: Sharon Sommerville <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>, Jennifer Ross <
> jenn at jenniferross.ca>
>
>
> Hi Sharon and Jenn.
>
> As you probably know, every time the Electoral Reform Committee meets they
> are inviting the public to submit questions at #ERRE #Q.
>
> During the last session, the referendum advocates pretty much won the day
> on Twitter with 16/29 questions (adding to the fact that the Conservatives
> spend 99% of their speaking and questioning time making the same demands
> about referendums and asking witnesses the same questions over and over
> they're building their story about most Canadians want a referendum).
>
> *We need help to make sure that lots of PR supporters are tweeting great
> questions, and retweeting the good questions/comments of others. *That
> helps show strong support for PR and drown out the calls for a referendum.
>
> What we'd like to do is ask our team to sign up as many people as we can
> into slots where they commit to be on twitter following that hashtag at a
> specific time.
>
> We'll let our tweeters know ahead of time what witnesses will be appearing
> that day, what they might expect to hear, and what some good question
> topics might be.
>
> *Can you help with this by asking those you know are on twitter to contact
> me about helping us?*
>
> Here is the committee meeting schedule for July - basically, July 25-28.
> They haven't actually specified the times AM and PM but so far they've been
> 10 AM - 12 PM and 2-4 PM EST.
>
>
> *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing>*
>
> If you can ask people to volunteer and to tell me the info below that
> would be a big help.
>
> a) What dates/times they are available
> b) Their twitter handle
> c) Their email
>
> Thanks so much for any help!!
>
> Anita
>
>
>
>
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