Bell launches grassroots organizing website

Chris Bell (photo)
Candidate for Governor of Texas

Texas Democrats to hold largest GOTV phone bank in state history

AUSTIN—Texas Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Chris Bell announced the launch of TrueBlueAction.com, a website hosting online tools to empower grassroots volunteers to organize their neighborhoods and get out the vote in November for Texas Democrats up and down the ballot.

The centerpiece of this effort is the “Democratic Census,” a massive, voter identification project to find potential voters supporting Texas Democrats and connect them with grassroots volunteers in an online phone banking tool.

Online phone banking allows volunteers to get involved with campaigns across the state from their homes and offices with nothing more than a computer and phone. Created by the Bell Campaign’s Field Director, Glen Maxey, the website is designed to help Democrats up and down the ballot by identifying and activating voters and providing campaigns with access to information and volunteers to help get out the vote in November.

Here are the tools currently offered at TrueBlueAction.com:

Online Phone Banking – Allows volunteers to join the 2006 Democratic Census with nothing more than a phone and a computer.

Voter Lookup – Allows volunteers to see if friends are registered, and which districts they are in.

Vote By Mail – Allows volunteers to help elderly or disabled neighbors apply to vote by mail.

Block walking lists – Allows volunteers to print block walking lists for precincts complete with voter history.

New Voter Network – Allows volunteers to register new voters and capture their data so that Democratic campaigns can reach out to them before Election Day. More tools will be added soon to allow activists to set up personalized networks to target specific voters.

Democrats plan to hold two coordinated, statewide phone banking events on October 24th and November 5th-7th to encourage early voting and remind Texans to vote on Election Day.

The November 5th-7th phone bank will be largest coordinated phone bank in Texas history.

More information on Bell’s grassroots organizing efforts is available at http://www.chrisbell.com/trueblueaction.