Hey John,
Just wanted to make sure you saw my email from earlier. I just got off a Zoom call with some great volunteers and activists up in Buncombe County who are fired up and ready to go, and I'm excited to take that energy into May. I know that earlier I said it's easy to become complacent—but overwhelmingly, voters are not!! We just need to have the resources to fully activate them.
If you're able to chip in and help us keep up that momentum, then we're only $1,000 away from hitting our April goal! If you haven't given already, I'd be eternally grateful for a contribution: [link removed] [[link removed]]
Thanks so much!! - WH
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From: Wesley Harris <[email protected]>
Date: April 30, 2024 at 10:20 AM EST
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>
Subject: Jump out of the pot
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Hey, John,
If your inbox looks anything like mine does this morning, it’s full of emails like this one with subject lines like: “Bad news”, “Last chance”, “This is urgent”, and “This may not seem like a big deal, but it is”. After all, today is the last day of April, and everyone running for office is hustling to hit their fundraising goals. I tend to think those emails are pretty annoying, but the problem is, they work.
I try my level best not to send you anything that I feel is just mindless clickbait or that leans on false urgency—but even so, I can look at the stats on our fundraising spreadsheets and tell you that of the top ten emails we’ve ever sent, six of them were end-of-month emails. Deadlines and goal numbers are a powerful tool for motivating people, and that’s true for more than just these emails.
See, it’s easy to become complacent. They say that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it’ll jump out. But if you put a frog in a pot of room temperature water, it’ll let you turn up the temperature indefinitely until it boils, as long as you do it slowly enough.
We’ve seen that happen in a lot of our communities over the last few decades: over the last decade-and-a-half of GOP control, they’ve slowly chipped away at funding for education, infrastructure, and lots of other things that our people depend on. They’ve slowly chipped away at the tax rate and our cash reserves. They’ve slowly rolled back voting rights and civil rights.
They’ve turned up the heat on the stove in the hope that we’d just let them boil us. But now that we’re approaching a crisis point, people are waking up. And we’ve got to jump out of the pot before it’s too late.
Today is our April fundraising deadline. It’s not a reporting deadline, just an internal one, but keeping up with our budget milestones is important. If I don’t hit my goal this month, then it doesn’t change what my goal for this quarter is, or what my overall goal for the whole campaign is. If we don’t raise as much as we’d like to in April, I have to raise that much more in May to make up ground, which means spending more time fundraising and less time out campaigning.
And the way that works every month is about the same. We get pretty close, and then a hefty chunk comes in on the final day when I tell people I really need it. We get up against the deadline, the heat jumps up, and we all jump out of the pot before we boil. It’s not my favorite way to do things, but it’s just how people work—and if we want to be able to wake up our state and take the GOP’s hands off the stove, then I’d better hit these goals so we can win come November.
So here’s the ask: John. I need to raise another $6,895.22 by midnight tonight to hit our fundraising goal for April. If we don’t hit that number, maybe the world won’t end, but it’ll set us back and make it that much harder to hit our goal in May. We need to flip this seat and start the work of taking back our government before North Carolina hits a true crisis point, so can I count on you to make a contribution of whatever you can afford? [[link removed]]
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Thanks for sticking with me.
Take care,
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Wesley Harris is a North Carolina native and the only PhD economist in the General Assembly. First elected in 2018, he has been fighting hard for the residents of southern Mecklenburg County and working to make our state the best place in the country to live, work, and start a family. Now, Wesley is running for Treasurer to make an investment in our state's greatest asset, its people. Together, Wesley believes that we can unlock the potential of our people and build opportunity for every North Carolinian.
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