Category: #UNRIG

Here is a group of voters who totally get #UNRIG. People are starting to come up to me at rest stops and when I stop for the night, generally at a KOA Camp.

Heading for home base. RV will get a new topper, air springs, and a few other odds and ends that will make it effective for our national tour.  Cynthia is back 1 September, after a National Press Club conference and a fund-raiser we hit the road. I have decided to not go on the  road alone anymore, will focus on skype and zoom sessions with constituents ready to approach their Members during the August recess.

Creating a #UNRIG Hall of Fame, the first two are Morgan from Oregon and Bob from Georgia.

Our media campaign including conference calls and direct outreach to local media starts next week.  We still need to raise another $20K in August and then $40K in September — not asking donors to donate again, but rather to recruit three new donors each.

Driving all day — so much from the west end of Tennessee that I have stopped after six hours.  A shout out to Two Rivers Landing RV Resort, for $56 ($10 more than the norm) I am gratefully watching the river flow by as I type. Sevierville, TN turns out to be loaded with stuff to do from nature to shows.

Trying to breathe as I pound across the country. Here is today's meal — Arby's is doing well by me — and a deserted stream by a rest stop that caught my eye.

Tomorrow we start the #UNRIG barrage of press releases, radio shows, media call-ins, and more. We may not get every Member, but by the time Cynthia and I do our National Press Club appearance in early September, I absolutely guarantee every single Member of Congress is going to understand that #UNRIG is on the table and their constituents know about it.

Have driven over 3,000 miles since 27 July.

Individuals are starting to have success — hats off to GA-03 staff that spent two hours with constituent and is now considering upside of their Member taking the lead in drafting legislation.

Particularly useful have been meetings with three high-dollar donors and two world-class Internet and information technology seers over creation of our alternative Internet that by-passes existing infrastructure that is too easily taken down.

Headed now to North Carolina for a meeting on our media strategy in preparation for Cynthia McKinney's returning from Bangladesh and joining our civics education campaign full-time.

This would all be easier if President Donald “the system is rigged” Trump would take on the burden of leading #UNRIG for the benefit of all voters.

We cannot say enough good things about Adnormous team in Marietta, GA, which by the way is employing both people of color and Latinos in significant numbers. Here is a photo of the team that did minor repairs to the wrap and also modified our key words to Authentic, Inclusive, Truthful.

Here with Ivan Byrdsong, our social media and scheduling coordinator, a very talented digital marketing specialist, he speaks fluent Spanish of a Colombian mother, and has learned elementary Mandarin. Ivan is responsible for both our Facebook/UNRIG Community (in the aftermath of MeetUp closing down our $77,300 national Pro network, an injustice they will pay for dearly one day), and for scheduling the  RV with wrap and skypes with Robert and/or Cynthia.