The fast-approaching 2022 election is a critical decision point for Texas and we need your help to get our message to every voter in Blanco County.
In 2020 we overcame unimaginable hurdles to elect President Biden. He has served with honor while passing The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act. He ended America’s longest war, reached historic job growth, reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, allowed Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, expanded NATO, and appointed the first Black woman to the Supreme Court With these and other achievements Democrats have demonstrated great leadership at the national level. But Texas continues to suffer enormously under the control of ultra-conservative office holders.
Republicans have held the governor’s office since Ann Richards’s term ended in 1995. That’s 27 years of Republican policy, legislation, and mismanagement. Their attacks on our rights, public education, and social programs have put Texas at the bottom in the nation for access to healthcare, mental healthcare, and disabilities services; school funding per child; and economic opportunity while placing Texas at or near the nation’s top in school shootings, rural hospital closures, uninsured residents, voting restrictions, and maternal mortality. Texans have a failed foster care system, an unreliable power grid, and skyrocketing property taxes and electricity bills. Name a real Texas problem – Republicans are responsible for it. We cannot continue to endure this.
We’re going to do all we can to help elect our statewide candidates by achieving a new record number of Democratic votes in Blanco County. Our goal for 2022 is to top our previous record in 2020 by 15%. We’re aiming for 2,200 votes this November and, with your help, here’s how we’re going to do it.
We’ve already sent targeted letters to different voter populations including Blanco County registered voters who do not vote, seldom vote, or with uncertain partisanship. For this group we’re implementing a new get-out-the-vote strategy: Relational Canvassing. Next month our amazing volunteers will make hundreds of calls and visits to these voters and start conversations about their concerns and work with them on their voting plans. We’re creating a series of digital and print ads to address school funding, commonsense gun laws, Medicaid expansion, reproductive rights, environmental issues, and healthcare. This is in addition to our newsletter, social media, website, and mailers.
This November we must give it our all to win. We need both volunteers and money to get this done. Can you help? To block walk for Pam Baggett, contact Pam at 512-925-9492; to block walk for Claudia Zapata, contact Maggie Goodman at 830-554-0186 or maggiegoodman13@gmail.com; and to block walk for Beto, contact Laura Freeman at laurafreeman59@gmail.com. For work- from-home volunteering opportunities call Suzanne Perkins at 830-385-1645. If you are a Volunteer Deputy Registrar or would like to become one, please email Barbara Hudson here or call her at 512-784-0246. Click here to donate or mail a check to the address below. If you’d like more detailed information on our plan, please contact me at bcd@blancocountydemocrats.org.
With determination and gratitude,
Terry Casparis
Chair, Blanco County Democratic Party.
P. O. Box 2223, Johnson City, TX 78636