This book is for people who have never volunteered with a campaign before who are now saying to themselves that they are not going to sit out 2018 and they are not going to sit out 2020. This book is for people who are asking themselves, "What can I do to help elect Democrats?" Research shows that among the most effective ways to increase a voter's chance of going to the polls is a one-to-one conversation between the voter and a volunteer. The Democratic Party and its allies have become very effective at voter mobilization. It involves the efforts of millions of volunteers across the country having simple, kind conversations. You do not need to be a policy expert. You do not need to argue politics with anyone. You just need to give a little nudge to those people who are likely to support Democrats but who do not otherwise vote in every election. If Democrats win back the Congress in 2018 and win back the White House in 2020, it will be because of the efforts of people like you. 80% of the royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to help get out the vote.
About the Author: Ron Boyer has worked as a paper boy, a busboy, a ditch digger, a Fuller Brush man, a night manager, a gopher in a law firm, a research assistant to an economist, a library clerk, a teaching assistant, a woodworker, a produce delivery truck driver, a print shop clerk and copy machine operator, a recycling sorter, a laborer, a carpenter, an apple picker, a production line worker in an auto parts plant, a warehouse manager for a vending machine company, a cook in a nursery school, a word processor, a secretary, a legal secretary, a law clerk, and a lawyer. He worked 15 years in the Public Defender's Office in Contra Costa County, California. Since 2008 he has represented indigent clients in the California Courts of Appeal. The first time he volunteered for a political campaign was in 1972 when he was just shy of 18 years old on Election Day. He drove one voter to the polls for Richard Nixon. Watergate precipitated him out of the Republican Party and he has been a Democrat since. In 2004 he traveled to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to get out the vote for John Kerry. In 2006 he made get-out-the-vote calls with MoveOn, calling for various congressional races across the country. In 2008, he went back to New Mexico. The Obama campaign sent him to Los Alamos of all places. On Election Day he assisted with election protection at the Jemez Pueblo. In 2010, he helped train canvassers in Richmond, California. In 2012, he started in January as a Neighborhood Team Leader for the Obama Campaign in Albany, California. He organized volunteer phone banks calling battleground states. In the last month or so of the campaign he was a Staging Location Director in Berkeley. In 2016 he traveled to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in January and early February to knock on doors and help turn out the vote for the Iowa Caucuses. Then for the rest or the year he organized weekend phone banks for Hillary from his home in Oregon. He also helped to moderate the discussions between volunteers using the on-line call tool of Hillary's campaign. In March of 2018 he traveled to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and canvassed for Conor Lamb in a special election for Congress.