RUNOFF CAMPAIGN MOVES INTO FINAL DAYS

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RUNOFF CAMPAIGN MOVES INTO FINAL DAYS

POSTED BY JOANNE MCANDREWS 79SC ON MAY 25, 2014

As the Kesha Rogers for Senate campaign moves into the last days of the campaign, the focus is on mass outreach, both in the field, the phones and on the internet. Kesha is also giving interviews to various media.

Digital ads are running on the Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and a mixture of 50 national websites. Preliminary reports are nearly 200,000 impressions from Thursday afternoon through Friday, May 23 with an industry high click-thru rate. Traffic on Kesha's website and Facebook page is also high with several hundred people posting and re-posting items from Kesha's website.

In the field we are getting a high amount of recognition of Kesha's campaign in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Reports of people saying, "Kesha's my girl" and "I voted for Kesha are common." One person in San Antonio said, "There's a buzz out there on the internet about Kesha. People recognize Kesha as the Democrat who is taking on Obama."

Alameel's pathetic propaganda is backfiring. We got a call into the office from someone who said they had just voted for Kesha. When asked how he heard of her, he said, "I got this thing from Alameel which talked about Kesha, so I looked her up and she sounded like what I support." He organized his wife to vote for Kesha too. We are also getting regular reports of people saying they have organized others to vote for Kesha.

Kesha and 10 supporters marched in a MLK parade today in Houston with a banner that read, "Revive the Legacy of Dr. King and President Kennedy; Create the Future with Kesha Rogers" with a picture of King and Kennedy. The occasion was a culmination of a 30-year battle to have a civil rights memorial to Dr. King in the city of Houston. We got out 500 leafets to the 2,000 people there. We marched down the parade route and were singing "O Freedom," The Star Spangled Banner" and, America (My Nation 'tis of Thee). Most of the city's African-American elected officials were there along with community and Democratic Party activists. Everyone could see our banner. People along the route were waving and clapping for the singing. Numbers of people came up to Kesha after getting the leaflet with her picture on it to shake her hand and wish her luck and say they were voting for her. Some of the people (about 10% mostly Democratic Party hacks) were freaked out about her attacks on Obama. But even some of these, in discussion had to admit that they disagreed with much of what Obama was doing and respected that Kesha was telling the truth.

In San Antonio we got out leaflets to about 100 people attending an anti-Monsanto rally. Most were receptive. We got out 50 leaflets at a similar rally in Houston. Also in Houston we have been getting out leaflets at parks where extended families are having holiday BBQs. Once we get out the leaflets and have short conversations with people, the discussions among the families switch to politics and Kesha's campaign.