Sentences with phrase «paid canvassers»

A spokeswoman said the group is aiming to quadruple the number of paid canvassers in 2018 and expand its operations into Senate races in West Virginia, Wisconsin and likely Minnesota.

While that coalition spent far less on advertising, it did hire field directors and paid canvassers who worked alongside volunteers like the BPS school children to knock on doors and speak directly to voters.

That may sound easy, but doing it quickly with paid canvassers rather than volunteers can be difficult.

The Dems had some 20,000 volunteers and paid canvassers on the street in the last four days leading up to the election.

Rascoe said last week's elections showed the strength of a motivated Democratic base that could raise money from outside the county and deploy paid canvassers from groups like Citizen Action and the Working Families Party to conduct voter outreach.

A small number of paid canvassers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, the campaign arm for House Democrats, and volunteers helped Perez Willams collect 3,200 signatures by going door - to - door across the four - county district in just nine days.

Besides, I doubt an incumbent Congressperson of a major party has ever needed paid canvassers, in state or out of state.

After the board's ruling Thursday, Balter issued a statement in which she criticized Perez Williams for using paid canvassers, rather than volunteers, to collect some of her petition signatures.

At first, he appealed to Craigslist, offering $ 12 an hour for «petition gatherers / paid canvassers starting ASAP.»

With the help of the DCCC, Perez Williams paid canvassers to collect enough signatures for what appeared to be a spot on the ballot.

About 20 volunteers who worked on her mayoral campaign began circulating petitions for her campaign on Wednesday, Perez Williams said, adding that she is not employing paid canvassers.

It is a race against the clock for Spitzer, whose campaign is paying canvassers up to $ 800 a day to gather valid signatures, according to reports.

But the briefing also contains big - picture analysis flagging that union - affiliate Working America «has 400 paid canvassers knocking on 5,000 doors daily across 13 states through Election Day, especially focusing on Senate races in AK, IA, KY, MI, and NC.

Bey was also endorsed by the Working Families Party, which hired paid canvassers and coordinated an intensive get - out - the - vote effort on his behalf during the past few weeks.

His self - financed campaign paid canvassers to gather them.

Four have bolstered their volunteer operations with paid canvassers, including David Mastrianni, Katie Wilson, Dylan Ratigan and Don Boyajian, who leads the pack in fundraising, generating $ 494,633.34 since declaring his campaign last August, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Sara Idleman, a former Democratic candidate who dropped out of the primary race in February and is now on Team Cobb, said the use of paid canvassers is an indication of a weak campaign operation.

And while a muscular fundraiser, his was among the campaigns that deployed paid canvassers to circulate ballot petitions.

The Republicans, by contrast, have focused their local work on phone banks and (recently) paid canvassers... neither of which is likely to be as effective as the comprehensive system described above.

In one video the conversations are mostly in Spanish so it is hard to me to judge if the new voter is being mislead by the paid canvasser, but I think there could be instances where a non-citizen new voter thinks or might even be told they are doing the right thing, not knowing the canvasser is paid to sign them up regardless.

Perez Williams said the DCCC supplied a small number of paid canvassers to help her gather signatures from Democratic voters in the 24th Congressional District that are required to make it onto the primary ballot.

He's a Green Party supporter who has worked as a paid canvasser in the past, but the 31 - year - old claims he compiled the notarized, 14 - page objection to McMillan's filing by himself, and without coordination or support from anyone.

Coronel told me there were about fifty paid canvassers, some of whom have been working since petitioning in June.

At 4:15 on a recent afternoon, there are at least fifteen people in the main room, preparing packets for the paid canvassers, who will go out to knock on doors and identify Espada supporters who can be turned out on election day.

The group, which is tasked with electing House Democrats, paid canvassers to collect signatures to help the Syracuse Democrat secure a spot on the primary ballot.

The system's GPS - tracking system, which enables volunteers and paid canvassers to navigate their routes, also enables managers to track individuals to tell if they really visited the houses that they said they did.

And in an era of diminished political clubs and county Democratic organizations, the WFP has filled the vacuum as a vote - pulling apparatus, paying canvassers and mobilizing members of labor unions to knock on voters» doors.

And there were no paid canvassers.

The party, which essentially ran Reardon's canvassing operation, used a well - trained cadre of paid canvassers to blanket House District 48, which includes parts of Southeast Portland and Clackamas County.

«This was a paid canvasser who worked a few days for us.

3) How much money is Sean's campaign spending on paid canvassers to get him on the ballot, and how much of that is in this report?

«Our volunteer network, the strongest in this race, meant that we needed no paid canvassers,» said Mike Szustak, Cobb's campaign manager.

Several Democratic candidates running for New York's 21st Congressional District have augmented their signature - gathering operations with paid canvassers.

«Paid canvassers are notorious in the election industry for stuffing pages full of fake signatures and walking away with a paycheck,» reported The Intercept last week in a dispatch detailing perceived Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee meddling in the effort to unseat Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus).

It claims that paid canvassers that were not eligible to pass petitions and racked up signatures from signers that were not registered Democrats or not registered to vote in New York State.

Meanwhile, Donovan's campaign «spent almost all of its Q1 haul, paying out $ 280,000 in just three months to a Who's Who of DC consulting shops, a myriad of pollsters and paid canvassers, and an OpenTable directory of restaurants and golf clubs,» a statement from Grimm's campaign said.