The Metro Justice Clean Money, Clean Elections team is getting all fired up for a push to create local “Town Hall Meeting” style meetings with local officials and Albany representatives as a way to leverage more pressure on the issue of Clean Money, Clean Elections. The idea is to present a unified and vocal front at home to encourage representatives to pay more attention to the issue as it gets mentioned in Albany. Also, getting representatives to promise things in a public setting is more effective than just talking to them in private.
They’ve got every reason to be proud of the work they’ve done so far. Metro Justice has met with countless local organizations to promote CMCE, gotten more than a few Letters to the Editor published in the D&C and other local news publications, and generally done an excellent job of spreading the CMCE word. They’ve also made contact with numerous officials on the state and federal levels (I personally attended the first meeting with Louise Slaughter’s people on this issue at their Federal Building offices), but now the time has come for them to get more vocal and public, instead of focusing on groups. Hopefully, the work they’ve done with the small groups and organizations will help to amplify their efforts going forward.
I am personally hoping that this push for more public audiences will allow me to get more involved with the effort. I’ve got some ideas of how to make that happen, but nothing I’m willing to publish just yet.
