UDFL EXEC BOARD UPDATE

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer so far and had a successful end
to the semester. As your new president I wanted to take a moment and share
what the exec board has been up to so far. First off, you should know your
knew exec members (listed not in their rank except for the first two) if
you don't already:

-President Noah Seligman
-Vice President Shannon Mitchell
-Treasurer David Liebow
-Secretary Justin Henry
-Outreach Clare Nelson

1) $$$
David is working on creating an easy step-by-step "Idiots Guide to the
PCR" so everyone can give their free $50 to UDFL. This is crucial so we
have money for events, printing, literature, and reimbursing ex-UDFL
President current MSA President Max Page. What we are also compiling is a
list of every professor campus, so we can flyer, email, and call them about
giving us some money because a DFL win is better for the university
community faculty and student alike.

2)Adopt-a-District
Max started this project where we are working on a state house race this
summer and fall. Shannon is taking the lead on this since I am back in
Wisconsin this summer. John Benson is our guy running in 43B. Email the
campaign directly at johnbenson43b@gmail.com. They are looking for interns.
This is a very winnable race and our help can put them over the top.
Remember the DFL is +5 in the state senate and -2 in the House. Our race
could be the difference between a DFL state government and not (once we
dump Tuition Hike Tim Pawlenty)

3)DFL State Convention
Clare is a delegate this year to the state convention.
What: DFL State Convention
Where: Mayo Civic Center
30 Civic Center Dr SE
Rochester, MN 55904
See Map
When: June 9-11, 2006

4) Structure UDFL will have leaders for the three campaigns we are focusing
our energy on (Governor, US Senate, and Benson) and we hope people will be
able to work on all three, but would like to stay as organized as possible

5) Strategy
This is the super secret part. We will have 3 Phases of our campaign
strategy (by the way, if anyone can think of a clever title for the phases
let me know)

Phase One: Sept 4th (and previous weekend)-----Sept 24th VOTING
RIGHTS--registering students not in residence halls making sure they know
their rights. This means same day registration, in line by 8pm and you can
vote, no-excuse absentee ballots, etc. This is to counter GOP suppression
efforts. Republicans tried numerous suppression techniques at UW-Madison in
2004 and we can't let that happen here. They've given up getting us to vote
for them so they try and stop us from voting.

Phase Two: Sept 25th-----Oct 15th HAD ENOUGH? 2 Ideas should be cemented in
every students mind 1) Tim Pawlenty does not care about young people (join
my facebook group) High tuition, low levels of education funding, first
governor to cut money for education etc.

2) Mark Kennedy = George W Bush. He votes with him 97% of the time. If you
like Bush vote Kennedy

Phase 3: Oct 16th----Nov 2nd VOTE DFL Why students should support the DFL
candidates in the election. Not a hard pitch but they need to know why.
When Clinton spoke at the U he said he always wanted to make sure that
anyone who vote against him knew WHY they were voting against him. Let's
make sure that if someone doesn't vote DFL they know why.

Phase 4: Nov3rd---Nov 7th GOTV Calling, doorknocking, lit drop, chalking,
postering, talking, facebooking, emailing whatever it takes to make sure
students vote.

6) Message
Real simple.
Mark Kennedy will henceforth be called "GEORGE W KENNEDY"
Tim Pawlenty is called "TUITION HIKE TIM"

Please feel free to contact me anytime. My email address is in the CC
section. I will be in Toledo, Spain from June 15th until July 28th but I
will still be checking my email regularly.