Hey team, my name is Adam, and I'm Julie's Field Director. I just wanted to reach out with a quick update from the field — and a critical request. In only 19 days, early voting begins in Texas, and our team is firing on all cylinders to hit our goals.
Roger Williams is doing everything he can to drown out Julie's positive message with misleading TV ads. But we've got something that he doesn't have: an army of committed volunteers who continue to show up, doing the (safe) person-to-person voter contact it will take for us to win.
Canvassing and in-person conversations are not a possibility due to the pandemic, but here are a couple of the ways we are adapting to "the new normal."
Contactless campaign literature drops are socially-distanced, fully masked, and responsibly held events where you just stop by a staging location, grab a packet and a turf, and go. They're the best substitute we have for knocking doors right now — and they're a whole lot of fun, too.
In any other election year, phone and text banks are an essential component of our organizing plan — but this year, they're mission-critical. All you need is a laptop, some headphones, and your cell phone to start having conversations with voters about what's at stake in this election and their plan to vote. To give you a sense of scale, on Tuesday night, over 50 volunteers made 18,000 calls.
All of this work has amounted to hundreds of thousands of voters we've contacted, and we're in a great spot heading into the home stretch. But I don't want any of us to look back and think, "Man, I wish we'd done just a little bit more to elect Julie."
No regrets, team. Let's go win.
Adam Hughes
Field Director
Julie Oliver for Congress