In case you are unaware, I'm here to make sure that as many Kossacks as possible are getting excited about the upcoming
CrashingTheStates Project. Both
Hekebolos and
Reality Bites Back are busting their ASSES to get this project together. They are making amazing connections with campaigns across the country, along with some high profile politicians and bloggers who must remain unnamed at this time. I have tricked them into letting me into their inner circle, so I assure you that this project is going to be MUCH larger than than you can even imagine. Preparations here in LA are going SWIMMINGLY! No, REALLY!!
SO, now that I've lured you in with my catchy and fantastical introductory paragraph, let me explain below how you can assist us in making this the biggest netroots success since YearlyKos! (OK, so excuse my enthusiasm, RealityBitesBack has enough to be almost PANDEMICALLY contagious!)
There are three main parts to this project. Highest on our agenda is meeting directly with each of the
TWENTY candidates we will be visiting coast to coast. We will be interviewing them, on camera, and podcasting the resulting film as soon as possible from the road. The questions we will be asking the candidates will come from
YOU!!! Diaries will be posted in advance of our arrival, and the best of the questions will be posed. You there, sitting in your PJ's (or less) in front of your keyboard, can shape the direction of this project. That's what the netroots is all about!
Second, we will be following the candidates into the field. We will film the candidates on the campaign trail as they interact with their constituents. We may interject a few questions, but mostly we are hoping to capture our favorite netroots stars as they do what they do best - bringing a fresh breath of honesty to the American public. We invite you to look on as our favorite candidates convert the masses through a message of TRUTH instead of the fear that their opponents so readily rely upon.
Third, we are aiming to pull local bloggers together on a nightly basis to report the day's events. Sure, DailyKos is above and beyond AMAZING, but local bloggers are out there doing their own under-appreciated grunt work. CrashingTheStates will highlight the influence of local bloggers on the state of politics in America. We are going to step beyond the POWERFUL national blogs and expose those folks who are impacting politics within a smaller sphere. The influence of both national and local blogs is going to be a major theme of the documentary which will be put together from hekebolos and Reality Bites Back's road trip.
NOW!!! Here's where you come in! We need to contact more local bloggers in the areas surrounding the campaigns we will be visiting. People who might be able to host a hot-spot-friendly blogger get-together are ESPECIALLY desired! Even though we will have satellite web access (OH so high tech!), we want local bloggers to get together and blog along side of us. We are trying to get the candidates themselves to be present for this, and with more success than you'd believe. Our netroots candidates are DEFINITELY aware of the power we hold, and each and every one of you here are a part of that power.
Are you excited now? Can you just not STAND not participating in this mammoth production?? I thought so! Let me tell you how you can REALLY help us out! (See how I snuck that in so unobtrusively?) We are in need of places along the route to sleep and eat. Hekebolos and Reality Bites Back very much do not want to be left sleeping in cornfields, so if you can offer up a spare room for a night or two, you can be assured that you will be forever blessed (at least as far as we are concerned!). In some areas, we may have a couple of crew members for camera and sound work. As much as possible, we are finding local sound and camera people who will not need housing. However, that may not be the case at every stop. We are hoping for an EXCESS of possible sleeping arrangements at each of our stops.
Please go to our website - that number again is CrashingTheStates - and sign up as a volunteer. Even if you only want to keep up with our progress on a (semi-) daily basis, that is the place to be. The guys will be updating from the road frequently, and you will NOT want to miss out on the excitement!
As the humble go-fer in this whole endeavor, I will be combing the comments below for folks willing to offer some support in whatever capacity possible. No offer of assistance is too small! Local blogs that have been neglected? Lodging assistance?? A decent meal on the road??? ALL equally appreciated! Also, if you want to provide some gas money, there is the ever-present PayPal link on the site as well! Goddess knows I've exhausted that button over the past week's fund-raising extravaganza! If you're not tapped out, though...
OK, I'm ready now to unleash this diary! PLEASE consider recommending - hekebolos and Reality Bites Back deserve all the publicity that they can handle for the work they are pouring into this project! A simple click of the ever-powerful RECOMMEND BUTTON will put CrashingTheStates directly onto the Recommended List so that as many people as possilbe have a chance to comment, make suggestions, and participate in this HUGE undertaking. Don't let me down, now - I've SOOO poured my heart and soul into this!!!