From: Ted Sadler and Keith McCants
To: Rep. Winifred Dukes
Re: OPEN 2020 Voter Education Network Project
January 26, 2024
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From our telephone discussion, we are looking have a public figure of your experience and expertise take the OPEN 2020 Voter Education platform and what would be a cultivated network of 20 local influencers in 20 south Georgia areas and make it your operation or marketing the project to some entity which would secure funding soon and use us as the foundation of the operation moving forward. Of course, our biggest concern is lack of funding. We need an establishment operative like former Rep. Dukes to take the helm in the decision-making/funding rooms.
For near 20 years, we have constantly worked to encourage our community to vote and learn public policy issues. During that time, we rarely saw any compensation while watching grassroots newcomers and operations from out of state or from the Atlanta Metro area receive astronomical amounts of funding for operations that were well-intended but failed to connect with new and infrequent voters.
What we need: For an initial $50,000 managed by Mr. Dukes, we would turnover the design elements and the significant public figures who see the importance of a rural Georgia based network. We see driving the operation in the three south Georgia congressional districts with McCants in the 1st, Sadler in the 8th and Dukes or his designee in the 2nd. Other areas of the state or nation are options. Mr. Dukes would also serve as the guardian of the network of 20 people in 20 areas; allowing access to those who support funding. Of course, the Biden/Harris campaign as well as congressional candidates need us now. Statewide candidates in three years should start connecting with south Georgia with us this year.
OPEN 2020: Timeline/Buildout
Phase 1:
– Web page and Social Media Layout (I.V. Logo, 2020 owl or glasses Logo)
-Select 20 Area Coordinators (AC) with recommendations from local government elected officials, congressional staff/congressional campaign staff
-Introduce Project concept to AC Team: read blog and webpage, group Zoom meetings
-AC Team starts thinking of local 20 Influencers: Use social media to “ask” the public for recommendations from our Wishlist
-20 Cross Generational Issues (CGI): Introduced to the public NOW; impact on your family and you
-Inform various GOTV entities and others in the political/campaign arena that we come in “peace” and that our project serves as an enhancement to their efforts.
Phase 2:
-Buildout 20 Areas: Select 20 Influencers in 20 areas
-Introduce concept to Influencers and how involvement benefits their community and their brand personally. “You can capitalize on your popularity while opening new doors and entering new circles.”
-Area Introductory “Meet ups” Meals and access to their social media with pictures and videos
-Influencers push 20 CGI topics on Social Media with “Who, What, When, Where and How” framework; host “Live” discussions over time
Phase 3:
-With funding, Social Media Campaign from proper expert firm
-AC Team hosts events at local eateries; subsidized “Party With A Purpose” Cookouts
-Use Network to populate campaign and GOTV events and push radiation with Social Media coverage
-During football season, fund after game “Meet Ups” again with a purpose
-Radiation: 20 Areas with 20 influencers in each.
Objective- ripple effect into difficult to reach demographics
Goal- 100,000 additional new voters for Democrats in South Georgia
Phase 4:
-Long Term: Cultivate the OPEN 2020 network constantly to benefit future statewide Democrat slates
-Statewide Candidate proving ground
-South Georgia produces candidates for Congress and Agriculture Commissioner who deliver the southern half of the state for the statewide ticket while serving as host for other statewide candidates when campaigning in the region
-Counterbalance the Metro-heavy side of the Democrat Party in Georgia by creating a higher profile Moderate rural segment of the party
-Ambitious possibilities: Create an operation or approach that can be used elsewhere or everywhere nationally
-Give Moderates a home inside the diverse Democrat Party and reduce Centrists entertaining well-funded post-Trump new look GOP efforts
Ted Sadler’s Intellectual Property for Grassroots Voter Education
January 26, 2024
Summary: While unpolished and raw, several blog-based items produced over years could serve as the foundation for cultivating a rural voter movement. These items come from a Moderate/Centrist position but acknowledge Progressives and Conservatives in the Democrat Party or nation as a whole.
Best Interest Initiative Best Interests Initiative | Project Logic Ga : a series of blog posts monthly over a year that centers on politicians and public policy personnel discussing what Americans can do to help themselves and the nation as President Kennedy said.
OPEN 20/20 Network OPEN20/20 Network | a grassroots policy consortium (wordpress.com) : plan to build a nontraditional influencers (trendsetters) network of 20 people in 20 south Georgia cities and towns so candidates don’t build networks from scratch every other year. During non-election years, these influencers would slowly engage their social media followers on issues and strategies.
20 Cross Generational Big Issues Cross Generational Big Issues | Project Logic Ga : a framework pushed by OPEN 20/20 to provide voters a starting point for organizing their public policy views with emphasis on how these issues impact the average citizen.
Issue Study Techniques Study Issues: Who, What, When, Where, Why/$ | Project Logic Ga : as a companion to the 20 Cross Generational Issues, this study method employs the tool used by reporters and middle school students to digest and process information.
Hypothetical Situations:
In the summer of 2024, local, state and federal Democrat candidates learn of the cultivated OPEN 20/20 in place in south Georgia. A bus tour stop will find 20 people whose influence on social media and in the community radiates to the whole range of possible voters. A campaign rally in a town would use these 20 people who would get 20 similar people to attend with video and pictures for social media.
In the summer of 2026, Senator Jon Ossoff and the whole Democrat statewide slate of candidates will have the proven OPEN 20/20 Network working for them. Actually, the network could question the viability of a statewide or congressional candidate who hasn’t shown public policy knowledge or activity in the past.
Well-funded Get Out The Vote operations can tap into your network to populate their events with our influencers who encourage issue education.
Well-funded T.V./Internet/Radio advertising efforts can say that they have real grassroots connections from their association with us. Hopefully, they will use our network to field test issues and approaches with a south Georgia spirit.
OPEN20/20 Network 