Hey -- It's Katie, the AOTL State Director down in Florida. I just wanted to follow up on Shehn's email about the State Plan Sponsor Fund.
I'm really excited that she turned to our grassroots donors to help support my plan. I've been organizing in the Sunshine State for nearly a decade. I've seen gerrymandering block progress on issues like gun reform, climate change, and Medicaid expansion. And it's getting worse -- the ACLU labeled our 2019 state legislative session
"the most dangerous and threatening to Floridians' civil liberties and civil rights in over a decade."You should also know the impact of map manipulation in our state doesn't stop at the state line.
Florida could pick up another U.S. House seat after the 2020 Census, putting our redistricting process front and center in the battle over whether representatives from fair -- or from gerrymandered -- districts head to Congress.
That's why I spent so much time writing and rewriting the Florida plan -- challenging my own assumptions, and searching for just the right tactics for just the right opportunities. Shehn is right -- these plans are our key to our success, but they aren't cheap.
So we need you to chip in and become one of our 1,000 State Plan Sponsors before Monday so I can start my work.Stay tuned for an update from Saumya on our progress.
Katie Vicsik
AOTL Florida State Director
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From: Shehn
Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
Subject: A big task
10 Target States. 10 State Plans.
1,000 State Plan Sponsors?
We're launching a new fund to make winning advocacy strategies a reality in 10 states. Rush a donation to become a State Plan Sponsor before our Sunday deadline.
Friend -- I don't know how much I've told you about my job. Here's the gist: I oversee five target states for All On The Line. That means I spend a lot of my time poring over memos, budgets, and event plans prepared by our state directors on the ground.
This week, our state directors just completed a HUGE task. They finalized complete state plans that paint a detailed picture of how we WIN fair maps in our 10 target states and STOP map manipulators from distorting district lines in 2021.
That's the good news --
we have our winning strategies in hand. The bad news? These plans are EXPENSIVE. We're talking grassroots events, paid media, earned media, travel for AG Holder, volunteer supplies, I can go on and on and on. That's what it's going to take to
win.
I really don't want to tell our state directors we're going to have to cut their plans down because of costs.
So I told our team we'd recruit 1,000 State Plan Sponsors before the end of the weekend. Will you become one of the 1,000 State Plan Sponsors we need to get their plans off the ground?
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately.
Thanks in advance for turning our memos into movements,
-- Shehn
Deputy Campaign Director, All On The Line
All On The Line is the grassroots advocacy campaign supported by the National Redistricting Action Fund.
