(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Rural PA Campaign Work That Will Help Shift Central PA from Purple to Blue [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-15 Hi all, just a rural progressive candidate running for Recorder of Deeds in Centre County, PA. Centre County is that blue dot in the middle of Pennsylvania and leans a little blue and I am running against a long time GOP incumbent for the Recorder of Deeds. If you want to know more about what the Recorder of Deeds does, what I want to address while in the office, and a bit about me, click here. Long story short, I’m looking to address blighted properties and get more affordable housing concepts (including home rehabilitation and transitional housing) placed within the county. I wanted to share with folks the work I have been doing to try to improve margins, especially in the more rural parts of Centre County. Centre County has Penn State (yes, a college town), with a bit of suburbs demographics and outside of the State College area it’s a bit rural. Due to the need to support municipal and school board races in these more rural areas, I decided to do some research and do something that…. actually hasn’t been done in Centre County to the extent that I am trying to do with my campaign. We are working with Field Team 6 to engage with 5,000 potential new voters via text to ensure that we get more people involved with our Democratic process! Doing the outreach and getting new folks engaged and involved makes a difference. Sign up to volunteer here to help us with this project here in Centre County! Increasing the amount of registered Democrats (and progressive Independents) helps improve the margins against extremism. We're also working with RideShare2Vote to do outreach to the rural areas of Centre County to get infrequent voters engaged and out to vote! Infrequent voters are those who vote in 60% of the elections or less. This groups also gather volunteers to provide rides to those who want them to vote! They have had a lot of success in Texas and Georgia and I am trying to get them involved here in Pennsylvania. If you are in Central PA willing to drive voters to their polling location in Centre County, you sign up to volunteer here! And lastly, I am partnered with Red2Blue and will continue their texting services that helped flip the PA House blue! Their help with outreach increased voter turnout in the Democratic Primary by about 1500 votes in Centre County! This is a service that I have used that has had a lot of success. We’re going to focus our outreach to engage with open minded Republican voters, Independents, and Democrats. The more touches we do, the higher the turnout will be which benefits Democrats up and down the ballot, including a good variety of progressives in Centre County. But utilizing technology and expanding outreach costs money. Obviously, we’re going to do canvassing and traditional campaign work (mailers, ads, and so on), but what we are working on will be that push to not just help out the countywide candidates, but will help drive up the margins for judicial candidates in my state and help preserve rational candidates for school board. Every bit you donate, whether it's $20 a month or $250 now, it will help get public servants who will preserve democracy and strengthen communities elected up and down the ballot! If you can support in any way, that would be great. You can also give me a follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Threads (@ZeiglerForPA). Thanks for reading! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/15/2187534/-Rural-PA-Campaign-Work-That-Will-Help-Shift-Central-PA-from-Purple-to-Blue Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/