CA TPP ORGANIZERS

CA TPP ORGANIZERS
August 26,2010

CA CALLS August 25,2010

At the California TPP site there are summaries on legislation that is important now such as:

Public Option (HR 5808)

Clean Energy Jobs- Reid bill (S 3663)

Immigration Bill

www.teaparty-caifornia.org



Don't forget the new training we have at Tea Party Patriots site ,we partnered with The Leadership Institute for these modules, www.teapartyaptriots.org



Hammer Governor to veto bills : AB 1602 and SB 900 these bills implement the Federal health Care Bill in our state: This is from the opposition:

"Yesterday, the Senate passed key state implementation bills establishing the California health insurance exchange -- AB1602 (Perez) and SB900 (Alquist/Steinberg) - making us the FIRST STATE IN THE NATION to take this central step of implementing the new federal health reform law! Several other bills passed as well, and many more are expected to go to a floor vote later this week. To get up-to-date info on all the State implementation and consumer protection bills in the State legislature, visit the website of our lead state partner, Health Access California."



Governor's Office:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

State Capitol Building

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: 916-445-2841

Fax: 916-558-3160 ( new number )



District Offices:

Fresno Office

2550 Mariposa Mall #3013

Fresno, CA 93721

Phone: 559-477-1804

Fax: 559-445-5328



Los Angeles Office

300 South Spring Street

Suite 16701

Los Angeles, CA 90013

Phone: 213-897-0322

Fax: 213-897-0319



Riverside Office

3737 Main Street #201

Riverside, CA 92501

Phone: 951-680-6860

Fax: 951-680-6863





San Diego Office

1350 Front Street

Suite 6054

San Diego, CA 92101

Phone: 619-525-4641

Fax: 619-525-4640



San Francisco Office

455 Golden Gate Avenue

Suite 14000

San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: 415-703-2218

Fax: 415-703-2803





Washington D.C. Office

134 Hall of the States

444 North Capitol Street NW

Washington D.C. 20001

Phone: 202-624-5270

Fax: 202-624-5280



STATEWIDE PROPS

Most Propositions are in and I will get them out formatted for everyone's review. I think if we can come up with a consensus on these it would be powerful so we can discuss on next week's call after you have reviewed all the propositions.



Sharing Successes in California

Erin - Redding

Karen K. -SFV

Annie Rumary- Redlands

Elizabeth- Redding

Marie R.- Turlcok

Christina M.-Palm Springs



How did you start?

What do you do to keep people energized and motivated?

How do we keep focused for the long haul?

How do you grow your group?



1. Get and stay involved in local politics.

2. Get members to present new ideas for action and ask them to give lead those groups

3. Advertise where you can , when you can so people can find you

4. You can directly affect local politics if you are involved with City Council mtgs, etc

5. Learn to delegate jobs in the groups, we need to build more leaders

6. Membership has the ownership of the group

7. Meet once a week

8. Bumper stickers with their phone number that gives them all the info on meetings.

9. Be FOR something not just AGAINST something, keep it positive

10. Make sure people can fund out through your phone number

11. Outgoing message on voicemail has meeting info or group info

12. SFV has done Revere Rides a couple of times now, where they get cars decorated and ride a specific route to bring awareness to their group or event

13. Learn rules for city /town halls or meetings so you can adjust signage to deal with that before you go.

14. Get back to people within 48 hrs when they leave a message

15. See if you can get candidates to debate with a new format, a quick fire format, with the groups asking the questions

16. Lending library in groups for video materials so all members may educate themselves and their families.

17. Think outside the box for meeting locations such as Denny's may give you a big, private room if you buy food and drinks

18. Join socializing ad action together for meetings for those in the more urban areas

19. Network with other groups in your area. Share responsibility for events.

20. Have business cards made so you can hand them out when people are interested no matter where you are.

21. Educate, educate, educate

22. Utilize each members innate talents whether that is making phone calls or writing editorials, whatever they feel they are good at plug them into that position.

23. Know your audience and what works for them, what keeps your membership active and engaged.

24. Utilize meet up groups on the internet such as meetup.com

25. Use different color names tags so you can discern new people at meetings

26. Have an orientation for new people separate from your regular meetings.

27. Sam Paredes does a training in Confrontational Politics for groups, he does this for free. www.teapartyvideo.net

28. Keep the Board association on the down low as it's about the whole group not just the Board

29. Action groups rather than committees because items die in committees rather than focus on action. The people in the action groups take the lead on their projects. This builds leadership in many rather than few.

30. Group members visit local businesses and get to know them

31. Each leader has a leadership team and they meet as is necessary and when they can sometimes twice a month.

32. Joint leader meetings amongst neighboring groups

33. Promote each other's groups and share the buying of concession products such as t-shirts etc

34. Wear tea party shirts to promote groups.

35. See if you can meet at churches and talk to pastors to get the churches involved

36. Have How To Guides for each successful event whether it's planning an event or town hall or some other project





Mark Kent from Redding shared with us his knowledge on financial health and non-profits. We will ask Mark to come back to another call to spend the whole call time with us talking about financial health and corporations.

If you would like to reach Mark in the mean time here is his contact: kentmark@msn.com














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