"Community mobilizers" in Wisconsin can earn up to $270 to get their friends to vote for Judge Janet Protasiewicz. | Wisconsin Takes Action
"Community mobilizers" in Wisconsin can earn up to $270 to get their friends to vote for Judge Janet Protasiewicz. | Wisconsin Takes Action
Georgia-based political organizers are offering $250 to Wisconsin voters who will ask 75 of their friends to vote Janet Protasiewicz for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, according to documents obtained by The Sconi.
Raven Bradfield, 29, of Roswell, Ga. ran a group Zoom training last week, a source who participated said.
Once interviewed about her Georgia organizing experiences on the "Ground Game: Georgia" podcast, Bradfield is a former organizer for the Democratic Party of Georgia and currently works for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, according to her LinkedIn page.
Raven Bradfield, 29, of Roswell, Ga., led the training
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Bradfield told trainees they were lucky to have the chance to vote for "progressive Judge Janet."
"I am from Georgia. During the Trump years I saw the judges who were appointed," she said. "In Wisconsin, you are lucky to be able to elect your own judges. You are the only state. "
According to a slide deck used by Bradfield to train recruits, the "Wisconsin Takes Action Community Mobilizers" program is organizing nine local groups, including Black Lives Matter PAC and Madison-based "Freedom Action Now," a self-described "radical queer black and southeast asian feminist organization."
According to a slide, recruits are paid $60 to "build (a) list of 75 people & ask them to register to vote," another $65 to ask people on their list to early vote, another $70 to ask people on their list to "make a plan to Vote" and $75 to ask them again to vote, on election day.
Anyone who recruits another "community mobilizer" gets $30.
The deck says the effort is paid for by Organizing Empowerment PAC, part of the Organizing Empowerment Project, which "(helps) progressives with relational organizing by providing tech tools and training." Backers include New York "Wall Street executive" Mike Novogratz and Liesel Pritzker Simmons, cousin of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
"We are helping elect a progressive majority to the Wisconsin Supreme Court."
The group sends text messages to registered voters, prospecting for "community mobilizers"
"Hi! It's Wisconsin Takes Action. We are helping elect a progressive majority to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The April 4th election is too important to let anyone sit on the sidelines. We are offering an opportunity for you to earn $250+ by talking to your friends and family about voting," the texts say.
Respondents who show interest are invited to a "virtual onboarding" held on Zoom.
"We will send you the link to join the virtual onboarding on the day of the training," the texts say. "At the training our coaches will walk you through everything you need to do in order to receive $$. We issue payments 3 times a week, and the work will only take you a few hours."
A trainer went through all of the gift card options that were available. She said she knew which one she would get if she were a participant in the the program.
"I'd pick Target because she I love Target," she said.
Protasiewicz is running against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly. Election Day is Tues. April 4.