Update on Texas Ballot by Mail by Glen Maxey
You guys paid for the counties who simply didn’t have enough money in their Democratic Party bank accounts to pay for getting ballots by mail to their over age 65 Democrats.
Glen reports —
I just love old people. Well, people older than me, cuz, I too am old. Just know that when you mail hundreds of thousands of mail ballot applications and you put a “call this number if you have questions” message on it that rings to your cell phone, you invite a hell of a lot of calls. Some funny, some heart tugging, some mean ass Republicans who want to know how the hell they got on a Democratic list (it’s because they look like Democrats in the voter list), and so on.
Almost 1000 calls into this, I’m wearing thin (not in the good way). But I’ve done by hand about 400 applications this week while trying to understand all kinds of accents, diction, and mumbling. Of course the problems and questions are rarely easy or else they would have figured out the answer, ie “I just moved from Midland to Wichita Falls, am not registered in WF yet, how can I vote by mail”. Now the first answer is “If you were moving from Midland, why in hell would you pick Wichita Falls?”
Best one to date: “First, let me tell you I’m 97 years old. So I might not remember what I asked you by the time you answer, so bear with me.”
Best news: the return rate is the highest our mail vendor has ever seen in all the campaigns they’ve ever done. And that, my Democratic friends, is awesome.
Indeed it is. Thank you, customers and thank you, Mean Ole Glen.
We need 1000 Glen Maxey’s in every state to beat the Republicthugs.
1@Larry from Colorado
I nominate you for Colorado! Sic ’em.
2I didn’t get mine!
3Glen is awesome! He gets stuff done.
4Want to meet the 97 year old so l can be the young kid! Excellent work. Thanks to all.
5I’m going to email you Glen’s email address, Sarah. Bubba didn’t get one either but he probably told some phone banker that he likes to vote in person.
6Thank you!
7I rarely give money away, but when I do, I trust Glen Maxey to spend it wisely.
GOTV, my friends.
8Thank you a million times! My dad will be 100 in 9 days, and Lord willing, he will be here to vote D in November.
9Congrats, Glenn Maxey, you hard working man! Cue the brass band and the conga dancers! You deserve a party for what you do for the party!
10Keep on fighting the good fight! And remember you have something in common with our commander in chief, who said that all the problems that land on his desk are hard ones, because the easy ones are solved before they get to him.
11This is awesome and inspiring. My hat’s off to you, Glen, and to everyone else involved.
12Next year you need to set up a phone bank or something to take the calls. I can see how answering all those calls would wear you down to a nub. I got the mailer, but didn’t need it. My wife and I already have our primary ballots in hand, courtesy of the good old USPS. Now comes the hard part…
13Thanks, Glenn. The closest I ever got to that was last year when I got a lady in Houston. She got all excited, said
14How do I vote? All my friends talk about voting. I wanna vote.” I got her connected to somebody in Houston who would walk her through it. Unbelievable.