{"id":346,"date":"2009-02-11T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-02-11T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T23:33:26","slug":"get-fisa-right-to-meet-with-sen-feingold-maybe-help-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/get-fisa-right-to-meet-with-sen-feingold-maybe-help-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Get FISA Right to meet with Sen. Feingold!  (maybe)  Help wanted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/feingold.senate.gov\/images\/listening_front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"148\" \/>One of our topics Saturday&#8217;s conference call (<a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/February+7+2009+conference+call\">notes here<\/a>) was how to make contact with our allies in congress.\u00c2\u00a0 Jean from Green Bay mentioned that she and a couple of other people were going to go to one of Senator Russ Feingold&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/feingold.senate.gov\/images\/listening_front.jpg\">Listening Meeting<\/a> in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The first opportunity is this Saturday on Valentine&#8217;s day (February 14) at a <a href=\"http:\/\/feingold.senate.gov\/images\/listening_front.jpg\">Listening Meeting<\/a> in Chilton, events in Madison and potentially Milwaukee on March 1, a cable advertising opportunity in Green Bay on March 4, and more.\u00c2\u00a0 To keep track of it all, we&#8217;re going to use <a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/GFR+heart+Sen.+Feingold\">a wiki page<\/a> as the planning hub for this.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the current versions of our goals for the project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get a better understanding of the situation in Congress and Senator Feingold&#8217;s strategy<\/li>\n<li>get Sen Feingold to make a video on &#8220;what it means to get FISA right&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>introduce ourselves to Senator Feingold and get a working relationship in place<\/li>\n<li>pilot techniques that we can use as part of a 50-state strategy<\/li>\n<li>get blog and media attention, at least at the local and state level, and hopefully nationally as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/GFR+heart+Sen.+Feingold\">The wiki page<\/a> also has a timetable, talking points, a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/Draft+email+to+Sen+Feingold\">draft email to Senator Feingold<\/a>** &#8212; and a &#8220;help wanted&#8221; section, looking for volunteers.\u00c2\u00a0 You, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a little time to help with the media outreach, ad buy, or other planning, please let us know.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re in Wisconsin, so much the better: it&#8217;d be great to bet more people there in person.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to Get FISA Right, this is a great example of the self-organizing and distributed way we do things.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So please,<a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/GFR+heart+Sen.+Feingold\"> check it out<\/a> and get involved!<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n<p>PS: Thanks to Jean, Ben, Harry, and Nina on Facebook, and Frank and John in email, for getting the ball rolling on this.<\/p>\n<p>* for best results, picture an emoticon instead of the heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Except I haven&#8217;t figured out how to do that in WordPress yet.<\/p>\n<p>** or maybe to Honorable Senator Russ Feingold.\u00c2\u00a0 Does anybody know the proper etiquette for addressing a Senator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our topics Saturday&#8217;s conference call (notes here) was how to make contact with our allies in congress.\u00c2\u00a0 Jean from Green Bay mentioned that she and a couple of other people were going to go to one of Senator Russ Feingold&#8217;s upcoming Listening Meeting in Wisconsin. 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