Sara Cline- March 19, 2010

Hello everyone,

This week has been mainly administrative, so there is not much to report.

The main focus has been getting meetings set up for the 150+ people coming out for the Greek visits in April. We've sent a meeting request to each office, and let me tell you, putting those together was quite a project. Members got different letters based on who we have coming for the meetings that would be linked to them- Constituents, friends/personal relationship people, and brothers/sisters (if Member is Greek). So there was a standard letter that went to members without any of those qualifications, a Greek letter, a constitutent letter, a friend letter, and Greek + constituent letter, a Greek+ friend letter, a Greek + friend+ constituent letter, and a constituent+ friend letter. Once I got the spreadsheet set with which member had people in which categories, we did a couple of big mail merges, and then poof... over 500 meeting requests went out.

Since then, I have been doing follow up- scheduling the meetings, providing addresses/hometowns of the constituents to the schedulers so they can verify the people coming are really from the district, calling people, filling out additional forms online/faxing them, etc, etc. It isn't the most glamorous, but someone has to do it, and Kevin's assistant who has done it in the past is in China. I actually enjoy making lists, so this isn't too bad, but just gets overwhelming!

Not sure what to expect next week, but it should be interesting!