Get & STAY connected

Photo by Erica Marshall - muddyboots.org

Today is where the rubber meets the road, folks.

Today is the day when we start asking you to actually do something rather than just add a few page views to the blog stats.

You need to go to the We Are Ohio Friends website. It's www.waofriends.com.

You can click the link directly and follow the steps, or you can right-click and open the link in another window so you can keep this page open, too.

On that page you're going to be asked to create an account and login. It's easy if you already have a Facebook account because you can just use that as your login info. From there, they'll check to see whether you're already on the voter rolls for this year (like if you've voted early - it's public record that you voted not how you voted, no worries.)

Then the important part. You'll be asked to commit to making weekly contact with up to 8, 25, or 40 friends and family.

See, the thing is that we kicked major backside in getting petition signatures. We turned in more signatures than any petition in Ohio history. We rock.

But that's passed and gone.

And we're gonna need way more NO on Issue 2 votes than our 1.3 million signatures. We need more NO on Issue 2 votes than one for every union member in Ohio. We need like five or ten or twenty votes for every union member, and we can't just count on those lining up for our cause unless we're proactive about going out and recruiting those NO votes.

We need to get to the recruiting, to the convincing, to the talking to friends and family and neighbors and soccer moms and fellow Jungle Jim's shoppers and everybody else.

Once you create an account, you'll be asked to search for friends and family members by name and city. The site'll check out to make sure they're registered voters, and then you get to give a little info and commit to contacting that person once a week from now until the November election.

You won't be giving We Are Ohio any contact info about that person other than what city they're in, so they won't be getting emails from We Are Ohio or the OEA. All you'll be doing is committing to do what you can to remind that person weekly that they need to vote NO on Issue 2 because it's Unfair, Unsafe, and Hurts the Middle Class.

That's all.

Sign up...pledge a few names...and then talk to them once a week.

Your talking can be in person or by Facebook or by email or by sending them a link to this blog because at least once a week we'll be posting something that you can share with your friends and family (or the girl at Starbucks who makes your carmel macchiato every Sunday morning or your church's pastor).

For today, though, go ahead and get registered and start pledging.

(If you still have some more questions, we've embedded the two-page instructions below. They're from the We Are Ohio training.)
We Are Ohio - Friends, Family, Neighbors
And here's the video to Stereo MC's doing "Connected" because it's been going through my head since I started writing this blog post...