Sorry for the delay; I've been busy getting our new people set up at Enlighten the Vote. Some brief thoughts for now:

1. You mentioned you've been handing out water bottles. You might want to reconsider; water bottles have a notoriously unfavorable life cycle assessment, and the few people out in your area who actually care about such things are going to be your biggest supporters and perhaps volunteers but might be turned off by such things.

2. When discussing efficiency and all that good stuff, make a point of mentioning that even the Army is using such things as life cycle assessments when they purchase such mundane things as paint, and that they do so in order to save money as well as to leave a minimal environmental impact. Points such as this should make it harder for your conservative incumbent opponents to paint you as some sort of crazy hippie.

3. I've noticed you've already gotten an endorsement from one organization. Let's go for several more; I'm compiling a short list for you this week. Let me know if you'd like me to draft an e-mail for you to send to them or write one on your behalf from me, or if you'd like to handle this yourself.

4. Can you get back to me at some point with whatever you know about the individual incumbents other than that they're not particularly wonkish or fond of transparency?

5. Do you want me to do a post for Daily Kos on your behalf, or do you want to do it yourself? Let's coordinate on this. We'll also want to hit MyDD with the same post.

6. I've attached an article I wrote a few months back for an industry pub which you might find useful insomuch as that it contains some interesting points on efficiency, LCAs, and whatnot.

Get back to me when you can.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302