Title: “There’s Something About Your People”
Original CoS Document (slug): there-s-something-about-your-people
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Created: 2019-06-08 17:51:18
Updated: 2019-07-03 23:00:09
Published: 2019-06-10 00:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:03:27.821900415
Culture is defined as the social behavior and norms found in any grouping of humans, from entire societies to small organizations, and on down to individual families.
Convention of States Action Co-Founder and President Mark Meckler recently reflected upon the culture of COS Action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TF743Cw5L4
If you want to know why COS has made exceptional progress in 2019—and why it is a tough row to hoe—watch the first 10 minutes of the video. We hope it inspires you to do even more for COS Action.
Among Mark’s revealing anecdotes is a conversation he had with an Arkansas state senator. When he thanked her for her support in a recent vote, her response surprised him. He summarized her comments as follows:
You can't thank me, I have to thank you. I have to thank your people…I've been in this legislature for 12 sessions. I have never—never in 12 sessions—received a single thank you note. Your people sent me thank-you notes. I've just never seen anything like it. You have no idea what that means. Everybody yells at us. Everybody hates us. Everybody screams at us. Everybody complains to us, and even when we do something they like, they don't even pay attention; like we're just supposed to do what they like. There's something different about your people.
We thank you, our Virginia supporters and volunteers, for being “different.” We thank you for helping to grow our grassroots army by attracting more people who are different.
In 21 weeks, Virginia’s voters will elect a new General Assembly (GA)—100 lower house delegates and 40 senators. In about 14 weeks, absentee ballots will start being cast.
That’s not a lot of time, especially for an all-volunteer organization. Will you help us ensure candidates in your area have completed the COS Survey?
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