Fighting Trump, Dems launch plan to elect thousands of local election supervisors

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7. Excellent!!!! This is the type of thing that the group "Indivisible" did before the 2018 election

https://indivisible.org/

Recruit and train interested citizens on what types of local elective offices are available (where many are unfilled and/or lack Democrats as opponents), show how to run for office including what is needed for filing, and guiding through through the primary/general election process.

Stacy Abrams has done similar to get people "engaged".

This is true "grassroots" that the GOP has been doing for some time now - including way back when the Koch's "Americans for Prosperity" were funding candidates to run for positions on local elected school boards. And here we are today.

The embryonic stages of the Koch's efforts started over a decade ago -

Politics
August 15, 2011
How the Koch Brothers Backed Public-School Segregation

Andy Kroll


[UDPATE: In an August 16 letter to Brave New Foundation Robert Greenwald, Dallas Woodhouse, Americans for Prosperity’s North Carolina state director, attacked the premise of Greenwald’s film, saying it “falsely claims” AFP was involved in the 2009 Wake County school board elections. Woodhouse asserts that AFP “did not spend a single dime on those elections” nor did it engage in any get-out-the-vote or voter education efforts. “AFP played no role in the 2009 WCPSS election,” Woodhouse asserts. Read his full response.

In its response to AFP, Brave New Foundation stood by its story. BNF pointed to several statements of AFP-NC’s in support of its claims, including a 2008 blog post of Woodhouse’s saying AFP-NC “is on record as supporting the parents of WakeCARES, through significant financial contributions as well as other support.” In the fall of 2009, WakeCARES endorsed the four school board candidates who opposed Wake County’s busing policy, and a former AFP-NC director later credited WakeCARES with paving the way for the four candidates’ victories. BNF alleged AFP “funneled” financial support to the candidates through Art Pope, a wealthy Raleigh businessman and an AFP national director, who gave more than $15,000 to the Wake GOP which in turn spent nearly all of its political donations in 2009 on backing the four conservative school board candidates. AFP-NC’s Woodhouse also told Newsweek in January that his group did voter education and mobilized volunteers for the school board election.]

At first glance, the billionaire libertarian Koch brothers and the Wake County, North Carolina, school board couldn’t be more disparate. Charles and David Koch, the brains behind the massive Koch Industries conglomerate and the funders of so many right-wing political causes, are national figures, credited with (or accused of, depending on your political persuasion) launching the tea party movement and waging war on the Obama administration and its agenda. The Wake County public school board is, well, just that.

In reality, there are deep connections between the Kochs and Wake County, and it’s all about the money. The latest installment in the left-leaning Brave New Foundation’s “Koch Brothers Exposed” video series claims that a Koch-founded and funded outfit, Americans for Prosperity, fueled a campaign to “resegregate” the schools of Wake County, a prosperous area in central North Carolina that’s home to the cities of Raleigh and Cary, among others.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/koch-brothers-school-segregation-americans-prosperity/