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Weekly candidate videos, Wk 28*: How long are those driveways?


*Week 28 refers to how many weeks are left until November 3, 2009, election day.

The video yield from today.  My videographer is the best and loves compliments – keep ‘em coming.  By the way, I do realize how nåive I sound in one of the videos about signature collection – I am aware that I should get at least 175-200 if the minimum is 119, and I plan on getting the high end number.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:25 pm April 18th, 2009 in Campaigning, democracy, Elections, Jill Miller Zimon, Ohio, Pepper Pike 

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4 Responses to “Weekly candidate videos, Wk 28*: How long are those driveways?”

  1. 1 oengus on April 18th, 2009 10:27 pm

    Maybe a little scooter? Then you could whip around faster. Put a sign on it and advertise.

  2. 2 affrodite on April 19th, 2009 1:46 am

    just leaving a comment so you know i dropped by to check out some of your video footage. this is a nice way to chronicle your campaign.

  3. 3 BRM on April 19th, 2009 10:25 am

    Seriously, how about a family bike ride/signature gathering trip, or just you and your videographer (who is great btw)? I would be pretty impressed if a candidate pedaled up for my signature!

  4. 4 Paul on April 27th, 2009 1:54 pm

    Jill: Just saw Jason Rowsey’s post about you running for city council in Pepper Pike. That’s great news. Wish I could sign your petition and vote for you later in the election.

    Our county Board of Election allows candidates to submit as many as 3x the number of signatures required. For the school board election I ran in, 150 were required, meaning 450 could be submitted.

    Two incumbent members of the Columbus School Board will not be on the ballot next month because they failed to submit the required number of signatures, primarily because they collected just over the minimum number, and a decent fraction of those ended up being invalid. Talk about a dumb mistake.

    Don’t know about your county, but the Franklin Cty BOE publishes a CD with a complete list of valid voters. I loaded that list into a database, trimmed it down to just folks in our school district, then spent a couple of hours going through the list and finding folks I knew personally, many whom I would see anyway over a period of a few weeks. It cut down the effort significantly. And in the end, I knew I was submitting valid signatures (but I got some extras anyway).

    The other important lesson I learned – the most powerful vehicle for getting my message out was tri-fold brochures I delivered door to door. I won several of the precincts were I did that, and made a good showing in the rest. My problem is that I tried to get the job done with 1,000 trifolds in a community of 80,000. Based on the turnout, I think that if I had passed out another 3,000 I would have won a seat.

    Finally, for what it’s worth, we have a grassroots group together that planning on running a slate this Nov of three people for the three seats up for election on our school board – it would allow us to take a majority, which is the only way to drive change. It also allows us to share campaign costs.

    We’ll see how it turns out.

    Anyway, good luck with your race!

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