The start of the 2016 election cycle

The announced learning from the 2014 elections is the difficulty of voters voting against their party in partisan, contested situations. This is ostensibly causing a shift of MAYDAY focus to getting involved in "safe seat" elections or in primary elections.

How effective MAYDAY is going to be during the next two years is a huge open question, and is one which will not be answered soon. It will probably take the two years to play out before the answer is adequately known.

I think it is obvious that a very significant factor is how much publicity and attention can be gotten in the country for MAYDAY's corruption issue.

Exactly what MAYDAY is going to do in terms of using MAYDAYPAC funds, and raising more MAYDAYPAC funds, to publicize its corruption issue, is in the hands of the MAYDAY leadership team and presumably will be determined in due course by that team.

Regardless of what MAYDAY decides it will do to publicize the corruption issue, and pending any "guidance" it chooses to give to MAYDAY supporters, it would seem obvious that the more MAYDAY supporters can do to publicize the corruption issue, the more it will help the MAYDAY goal.

There is no gainsaying how hard and tedious, and how minuscule the effect can be, in trying to publicize something like the corruption issue, if you are not spending funds to do it and are depending on elbow grease and shoe leather in carrying out the publicizing.

Few people will put in much personal effort to do it.

If no one does it, however, is to give up and throw in the towel.

It helps to look around.

There are other organizations which are working on the corruption issue and are trying to publicize it. Commenters on the MAYDAY websites have mentioned  Every Voice. While MAYDAY is focused on the Federal level, other organizations are focused on or starting at the state and local level. Represent.Us has gotten publicity for its recent success in Tallahassee. WolfPac and MoveToAmend are working on constitutional amendments.

I think all the publicity these other organizations are trying to generate is publicity that is generally desirable publicity for MAYDAY's goal. Perhaps there is some distraction that is not entirely beneficial, but the help of having it out there I think clearly outweighs any disadvantage for MAYDAY's plan.

In other words, I think you should view these other organizations as help and reinforcement for what you try to do publicity wise.

On the MAYDAY plan, while you are waiting for its tactics to unfold, I would say, if you have the gumption, turn yourself into a Congressional candidate right now. That takes a huge commitment and dedication, and a goodly amount of available time.

I am continuing my Be An Alabama Rootstriker campaign. My reward is that I have a little soapbox in the Alabama 6th Congressional district from which to publicize MAYDAY and the corruption issue.

I think my campaign can be used as a model for other campaigns. If you are interested, take a look and decide for yourself.

If you don't want to become your own candidate in your Congressional district, but you would like to put in personal effort on behalf of MAYDAY but are not sure what, there are things you can do to help my campaign about the corruption issue.

In my dreamworld, I like to think what I am doing in the Alabama 6th Congressional district can be leveraged to have effect in the rest of Alabama and also outside of Alabama.

Thank you.