Supplement to "I tweet to defeat"

This is a supplement to I tweet to defeat the money monster.

Please read Money, votes, organizing, messaging.

Ultimately campaign finance reform is about influencing votes, including votes of regular citizens and votes of lawmakers.

That calls for messaging in as massive a way as possible.

Campaign finance reformers don't need instruction about how money can aid messaging and influence votes. Money buys advertising, including TV, direct mail, phone banks, and door to door canvassing. Money also buys a staff for organizing and making a vote seeking campaign more effective. "Walking around money" can be used to get voters to the polls. Campaign contributions can buy lawmaker votes.

Campaign finance reform organizations have some money to aid in messaging, but that money is minuscule compared to the money arrayed against them. The organizations need to spend their small amount of money as effectively as they can in doing their messaging.

This "tweet to defeat" effort is to try to extend the messaging as broadly as possible without spending money.

Retweets of I tweet to defeat the money monster contribute to the desired messaging.

Tweet storming has been explained to me as a group of tweeters tweeting one or more of several pre-drafted messages of a related tenor, and using a pre-arranged hashtag or hashtags. This also contributes to the desired messaging.

I have little experience in how far the foregoing will go to achieve "massive" broadcasting of the message.

I am urging direct "spamming" of tweets to seek to achieve more "massive" broadcasting.

I know some senders and some recipients will consider this kind of "spamming" objectionable.

For those who have reservations, I would ask you to think about all the money, and all the advertising purchased with such money, which is part and parcel of the "money monster" campaign finance reformers are trying to defeat. When I think about that, I have little qualm about "spamming" on Twitter. I hope you will see it the same way. See Spamming on Twitter.

If you have ideas for how "tweet to defeat" can achieve even greater broadcasting, please pass them along.

Bottom line here is: Your retweets are great, and thank you for those, but can you push yourself and do direct tweeting as well? Please, please do, and, if you feel comfortable about it, please allow me to add your name to the list of those who are tweeting to defeat the money monster.