A few observations (of my own and what other booth staffers said) at the Orange International Street Fair:
I did a 5 hour stint on Saturday at the Fair and helped take down the booth Sunday night.
In addition to the “Trump Accomplishments” and “Dem’s bills out of Sacramento” poster/handouts (I'm attaching those, for those of you I didn't already send to, use if you want-in color & B&W-I compiled the lists-Stella & Janet edited & Stella formatted), we also had a sheet with endorsements and Prop recommendations on candidates and propositions from the Rs (after an update on it, I’ll send it around). I brought, altogether, 450 copies (double sided of the ‘poster info’) and there were only about 50 left over. People were really interested in BOTH handouts!
Overall, the crowd was more ‘mellow’-we had very FEW negative comments from passersby-especially compared to last year. Met some RABID Trump supporters, of ALL ages ! One guy said he wished Trump wouldn’t tweet—I said with the way the media is, if he didn’t tweet, we wouldn’t know what was happening AND no matter what, you have to look at what he’s accomplished—he agreed! The phrase “Trump keeps his promises” REALLY resonates well!!
There were 3 young staffers from Royce’s office-they helped directing people to the booth-they were great—I told them of our many rallies at Royce’s office. I was told that other official’s office were contacted but didn’t send anyone to help at the Fair.
I pushed Meuser/Bailey/Roditis, saying they did well in the Primaries and we have a chance if we get everyone out to vote. I couldn’t really promote Poisner—not a Rep—but I said most those bills on the poster were written by Ricardo Lara—we MUST defeat him in November.
We had a number of Democrats wanting to get info—they are fed up with things like the train and gas tax and illegal immigration issues. I keep saying that the “traditional” Dems HAVE to be sick of what’s going on in their Party!
NO ONE knew about Mueser’s 5,000 mile bike ride—see below for the little display I made (I was in a hurry making it—had it all affixed/taped and Darrell noticed the big sign behind Mueser in the picture had the first few letters of his name cut off—I hadn’t intended that, of course—and what was left read “USER”! Too late to re-do—so I stuck the campaign pin over that area!) People were SO impressed with his feat—WISH we could have had some media coverage!
All in all—I really think there’s HOPE to get at least a few important seats: (SofS/AG/Controller/InsComm)!!!!
Betty