![]() ![]() ![]() “You also have to do opposition research,” on your foes and yourself, to be ready for anything the foes throw at you, Mueller added. People come from bigger organizations,” such as unions. “House parties are more intimate and people get to know you, and they ask to volunteer,” but donations are smaller and you have to figure out in advance who to invite, she explained. The first-time candidate’s seminar talked about different ways to raise money: House parties versus larger fundraisers. Ventura’s Will County colleague, 5th County Board District hopeful Meta Mueller-whose doctoral thesis was on German and Irish creation of Chicago’s unions in the late 1800s-chimed in on the schools and other issues. #OFICINAS CENTRALES DE MONEYHOUSE PLUS#Resulting non-payment and late payment of state aid hit local schools-and the rest of state and local government, plus outside services it funds. Rauner, a wealthy trader, tried to use the budget deadlock to crush AFSCME, which represents 40,000 state and local workers. The state’s budget crunch was so bad for local schools, she tells people on the campaign trail, that “45 percent of Illinois high school graduates last year left the state to go to college. Bruce Rauner and the Democratic-run legislature hit Richland Community College, where McMillan’s a consultant, hard. The three-year Illinois budget deadlock between right-wing GOP Gov. Jen McMillan, the daughter of a Teamster who seeks an open GOP-held Decatur-area seat in the Illinois General Assembly, talked a kitchen-table issue: Falling state aid to local schools. Her father is afraid the financially troubled Teamsters Central States Pension Plan will cut its payments, and “he’s scared for his pension.” Congress has appointed a commission, including several Midwestern lawmakers, to try to solve the multi-employer problems. Her father, mother, and uncle just sold their 80-acre farm in Michigan. She has another one, too: Failing multi-employer pension plans. In her race for the Will County, Ill., board’s 9th District, she’s hitting both national and local issues: Medicare for All, but also more state funds to local schools. Rachel Ventura, the daughter and granddaughter of an AFSCME member-mother and a Teamster father, said her seminar concentrated on how candidates must keep on message. And they’re preaching down-to-earth issues that relate their stories and their goals to those of the people they talk with, one-on-one. They’re running in red, blue, and purple states, all with the objective of advancing a progressive agenda on behalf of workers and their families. Half are women, 40 percent are minority, 18 percent are unionists-not counting those who are children and grandchildren of unionists-and 20 percent are LGBTQ. The candidates, many of them first-timers, are running on both national and local issues, ranging from Medicare for All to fixing local roads. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., discovered. That’s what a random sample of interviews of attendees at the conference, who spent their first day alternating between the seminars and listening to Sens. It takes savvy in handling the media, an introductory speech that links their causes to their lives (and the lives of their listeners), kitchen-table economics and, most importantly, it takes a willingness, as speakers emphasized over and over again, to “be yourself.” WASHINGTON-It takes more than a mound of money to win an election, as 450 progressive candidates learned in seminars sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee at a four-day conference in D.C. | courtesy PCCC staffĢ019 ILCA PW Winner, SECOND PLACE Saul Miller Award, Organizing Some of the 450 candidates from 45 states running for office who took part in this weekend's Progressive Change Campaign Committee's candidate training conference. ![]()
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