| Subject: Re: IRC |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/6/10, 13:27 |
| To: Robert Green <robertogreen@gmail.com> |
I was thinking of going on the attack as well since that's my forte; his opponent has been in congress for a couple of years so I'm having a couple of my people do opposition research in preparation for that, looking through the congressional record andhis public statements so I can pull out contradictions and whatnot. Thanks for your help, I'm going to talk to LeGrow by phone soon and see what good stuff I can get from that, will send you the e-mail later today.On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Robert Green <robertogreen@gmail.com> wrote:
Id be thrilled to help. Send me the info and I will forward on to everybody.
Just finished a piece for gillibrand, and another one for the womens media center. With a bit of money we could do a very cool video for wayne that took on the faith issue in a direct way (something like wyane believes that EVERY virginian has the absolute right to believe whatever they were raised to believe etc.)Okay, I'll get on that. Also, I'm now serving as an operative for the Wynne LeGrow campaign in Virginia's 4th congressional district; Enlighten the Vote, the PAC for which I serve as dir of comm, has been assisting him in raising money but they're really not good at doing that, so I'm stepping in to do so with my own resources (and will be offering free communications assistance to other campaigns for candidates of which I approve in the future). LeGrow is an admitted atheist who's up against a Republican incumbent who's a member of the Prayer Caucus and who of course has taken full advantage of LeGrow's candor. Nonetheless, LeGrow has a decent chance of winning; the district went for Obama in the last election, and LeGrow has managed to change the minds of local religious leaders who were initially put off by his lack of faith, simply by meeting and talking with them. It's also a low-dollar race in which a couple of thousand dollars can provide for relatively large ad buys; the campaign was hoping to get $2,000 out of Enlighten the Vote in a month of fundraising. I'm going to write up some materials today, including an e-mail appeal and some posts for Daily Kos and HuffPo; let me know if you'd be willing to forward an e-mail appeal to any contacts you might have who would be willing to consider donating or setting up phone banks in such a race as this, or if you have any other ideas.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Robert Green <robertogreen@gmail.com> wrote:
It cant hurt. Its easy and some of that shit is hilarious.
Do you want me to go ahead and do a sample on Xtranormal?
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com <http://barriticus@gmail.com> > wrote:
Yeah, I think animation would be a great format for this sort of thing and would open a lot of possibilities in terms of content. I'll check out Xtranormal tonight.
Also, I'm going to forward you the content of an e-mail that my associate Clark Robinson sends out to new recruits; it'll bring you up to speed on Project PM and give you a better sense of what we have to work with. Over the last couple of weeks I've had a chance to get things going with that, am now setting up teams and delegating projects and all that. Am finishing up a column for Skeptical Inquirer that will announce our new Science Journalism Improvement Project whereby we'll match up freelancers with scientists in order to produce superior articles for sale to newspapers and other outlets, among other strategies.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Robert Green <robertogreen@gmail.com <http://robertogreen@gmail.com> > wrote:
Im in. shooting something tomorrow but had an interesting meeting today with an animation house and I was thinking about your sketch done animated in flash. Maybe we should do a sample in xtranormal?
On 10/4/10 6:35 PM, "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com <http://barriticus@gmail.com> <http://barriticus@gmail.com> > wrote:
One my project pm guys just set up an IRC room in which we have ongoing discussions about our various projects. Right now it's just me a few other of our main people but we'll be sending out an invitation to our 75 or so members so it should develop quickly into an interesting environment due to the erudite nature of the people who'll be on.
if you want to check it out, download xchat, choose the freenode server, and type #projectpm when it asks you what channel you want.
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Barrett Brown
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