Glenden BrownThe Mayor’s Race (The Day Before Election Day)
As we work through the final day before the primary, I’m even more impressed with Ralph Becker and his campaign than I was before.
Becker’s campaign is using the strong team of staff and volunteers they’ve developed through a long, hot summer to drive a strong GOTV effort tomorrow. They’re doing targeted mailers - including letters from Scott McCoy to his constituents – I’m guessing other state legislators are doing the same. The Becker campaign is sticking to its strength, namely a well organized and operated ground campaign with lots of face to face, person to person contact. It’s detail oriented, but hasn’t lost sight of the big picture – Ralph is the right man for Salt Lake City mayor and we’re getting the word out to every voter we can contact.
The style of the campaign is a reflection of the way in which the candidate will govern. The Becker campaign has been detail oriented since day one – focusing on building a strong GOTV effort and ground campaign, paying attention to building support from the ground up, talking with constituents. The campaign has been well managed, fun, a little silly, and doing the basics that need done to succeed. That impresses me – there’s no last minute scramble to manage the details, no sudden realization that something major has been forgotten, at no point did Ralph Becker or his campaign take their support for granted. Ralph cares what the people in Salt Lake City want, he’s worked to find out. He’s paid attention to the details and he’s cast a broad, intelligent and progressive vision for the city.
That’s the kind of mayor I want.
Vote Becker tomorrow.
