Reshma 2010 GOTV: What Does It Entail?

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I just received an email from Megan Simpson, the Reshma 2010 Field Director. Megan is an Obama 08 veteran, an Iowa native. I have been to Iowa, many, many times. Have you? And I am also an Obama person from 2007.

Momentum is on our side. We received major endorsements from the New York Daily News, the New York Observer, as well as Bangla Patrika and Thikana -- two of the largest Bangladeshi-American newspapers in the entire country.

Since I signed up for GOTV a few days back I have been wondering what GOTV entails. Megan's email tells me it is pretty much the same as canvassing, only more intense, more urgent. You make calls, you knock on doors. I guess now you will be calling people who have already been identified as potential voters. That should be fun.

Weeks and weeks back one day I made 400 calls. But this was a list of everybody. I had it down to an industrial process. I weeded out many wrong numbers.

I guess I get to now show up at the Reshma 2010 headquarters a few days in a row and make a bunch of phone calls. They will give me a phone - they always have - since I don't have one. My phone is my free Google/Gmail/Google Voice phone. I signed up for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, but I am itching to show up already.

I was exchanging emails with the Pro.Act.Ly dude Jim yesterday. He is flying in from Los Angeles for the GOTV. I am looking forward to meeting him in person. Right now I don't even know what he looks like. Maybe I should google his name up. He reads my blog - this blog - so he knows what I look like. Can't let him with that advantage for when we meet.

The intern who introduces this video below reminds me of when I was doing my final year at high school in Kathmandu. That year I followed Clinton 92 through Time and Newsweek articles. She sure has the political chops.

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New York Observer Endorsement: Reshma 2010 Now Unstoppable

Reshma Saujani

Carolyn Maloney has represented Manhattan's old silk-stocking Congressional district—once the home of John Lindsay and Ed Koch since 1992. It seems fair to say that she hasn't had to break a sweat ever since. Token opponents have been swatted away without much discussion or debate. Every two years, voters in the 14th Congressional District on the Upper East Side and in Queens have marched to the polls and given Ms. Maloney virtually uncontested victories. Not this year.

A 34-year-old hedge-fund lawyer named Reshma Saujani has emerged as a refreshing, energetic alterative to Ms. Maloney. We support her bid to unseat the incumbent as the Democratic Party's nominee in the 14th District. Ms. Saujani is the sort of Democrat who understands that faux populism won't bring back jobs to New York. Ms. Maloney jumped on the bandwagon to "punish" Wall Street after the catastrophes of the last two years, supporting job-killing regulation and interference. Ms. Saujani, who has worked for three hedge funds, has a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between Wall Street and government. She believes New York and the nation will prosper when politicians stop blaming bankers and financial institutions for the country's economic malaise.

Carolyn Maloney has been a capable if unspectacular member of Congress for nearly 20 years. It's time to bring new energy and fresh ideas to the House. Democrats should choose Reshma Saujani.

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