Planning for the Election, meet Joel Smolen

We haven't had a meeting for several months. Now, the Nov 4 election is only a couple weeks away, Ricardo suggested that we have a little meeting. Possible topics for discussion:

Deciding who to vote for
- Chuck Baldwin - this is who Ron Paul says he is voting for. Should we vote for him, too? He is a qualified write-in candidate in California.
- Lynn Woolsey replacement - Ron Paul denounced congress for passing the big bailout bill a couple weeks ago, and said that we should do our best to "vote the rascals out". Our own Lynn Woolsey is fairly well entrenched, but we have the ballot alternatives of Mike Halliwell, Republican, or Joel Smolen, Libertarian. Joel has agreed to come and answer our questions about why we should vote for him.

How do we promote our candidates?
Once we have decided to to vote for and endorse, what can we do to help them get elected?

• do they have yard signs we can put up? Bumper stickers?
  
• can we do canvassing for them?
  
• help them with distributing flyers?
  

Socializing
After taking care of business, as above, we could socialize and schmooze. Steve will bring photos and videos from Washington DC and Minneapolis.