Petition season has begun for all non-presidential candidates (presidential petitioning starts October 7th).  If we want candidates, we need to give them a hand getting on the ballot. Anyone over the age of 18 by 11/3/2020, who is a citizen, who lives in Illinois can be a collector. Please check out this video podcast to learn how.

Also, please check out this document that explains how to gather petitions.

At the PC meeting on Thursday 9/5, judicial candidate David Stevens shared his experience and summarized the rules of circulating petitions. (He will also talk about petitions at our Sept.16 LTDO meeting.) Here is a summary of his information.

We have 3 drop off locations for candidate materials like petitions, walk cards, business cards, and yard signs. Please treat the hosts with respect as they are just volunteers trying to help get Democrats elected. (Ultimately it is up to the hosts to carry your literature as we are all volunteers.) Please try not to be going after 10PM and before 6AM because you will be waking their dogs up (and by extension their families). If you want our PCs to have your literature it is your responsibility to get it to a drop point or a meeting.

1. Holly Hootman has a bin for literature and petitions. She has a place for yard signs on her front porch. She lives very close to our normal meeting location (DuPage Unitarian Church) at 25W220 Lacey Ave Naperville, IL, 60563.  Her email is HollyHootman@sbcglobal.net.
2. Joe Heneghan has a bin for literature and petitions. He has a place for yard signs on his front porch. He lives at 8520 Shagbark Ln., Woodridge, IL, 60517. His email is joseph.heneghan@yahoo.com.
3. Peggy Nasti, our PC Coordinator, has a porch she can have yard signs on. Please ring the doorbell at a decent hour as most of her stuff will likely be in her garage.  She lives at 695 Sterling Ct., Naperville, IL, 60540.  Her email is ptnasti@wideopenwest.com.

Your help is much appreciated in getting choices for representation!

Okay, we all enjoy “slack”, but this is about Slack the app. ?There will be a Slack podcast episode to help explain it within the next week.

We all get too many emails from too many people in election season, they are hard to organize and you can not do project collaboration with those not on an email chain.  In a large group one team maybe doing work that impacts or effects another but if you don’t know what the right hand is doing you are kind of missing the right hand. Slack is like a collection of bulletin boards (“Channels”) which you can join or ignore according to your needs. You can also have ad hoc private conversations with one or more other members.  Members and PCs will be able to know where the event team or PC team or any other team is with their lasted stellar planning.

A Slack “workspace” has been set up for LTDO and PCs and team members have been sent out a number of invitations. If you receive an invitation, please accept it and give it a try because in the free Slack plan the number of invitations we can send is determined by the acceptance rate.

There is a knack for using Slack that takes some experience to acquire, and the more people try it out, the faster we can all be on the same page during this critical election cycle.  This is the best free option to communicate in an organized manner that allows us all to be on the same page. If you need help, bring it to a meeting and someone (Mark of Diane) will help you with it, or contact Mark at mjspieglan@gmail.com Thanks!

Don’t bother downloading the Mueller Report from the Department of Justice; it’s not searchable and searchable versions are widely available. Here are some good options:

• Online reader
• Downloadable PDF
• Free audio version
• Summary by David Cole of the ACLU

Finally, here’s a really good graphic summary. Data and analysis from Quinta Jurecic, Managing Editor of Lawfare; Jurecic’s original analysis and graphic (check it out!) reworked by @yammerjaw .