Planning checklist
Contact your legislator
- Inform administration of possible visit
- Send written invitation to legislator
- Follow up with three phone attempts
Organize your team
- Select a building to visit
- Select members to host the visit. Choose people who will best represent your local’s agenda, and especially consider members who live in the legislator’s district.
Develop your key messages
- Key message #1
- Key message #2
- Key message #3
- Go over the messages with member volunteers and spokesperson
Set the schedule for the day
- Draw up a list of activities for each hour of the school day
- Assign a member to escort the legislator for each part of the schedule
Arrange for publicity
- Inform school administration
- Identify a union spokesperson
- Write a news release
- Make contact with local reporters and editors
- Recruit members to take notes, write a story about the visit and take pictures
- Submit your story and pictures to local’s newsletter or website, or to community newspapers that accept public submissions
Write thank-yous
- Letter to legislator
- Letter to the editor
December 20, 2010