@BforAL04

This blog entry is composed for @BforAL04 (first name Brian), who has announced he is seeking to run for Congress as an independent candidate in the Alabama 4th Congressional district. See Brian's Twitter account at @BforAL04.

This blog entry is composed on my own initiative and without any prior notice to, or approval from, Brian.

I am an independent and am interested in helping independent candidates for Congress in Alabama.

To get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress in the 4th Congressional district, Brian needs to submit to the Alabama Secretary of State by the primary election day in 2020 (which is March 3, 2020) a petition from registered voters in the  district.

The number of registered voters who are needed to sign the petition is three percent of the number of qualified electors who cast ballots for the office of governor in the last general election for the 4th Congressional district. (See page 44 of the document at  https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/Candidate%20Filing%20Guide%2008-2-2019.pdf.)

I do not know anything about how Brian plans to get his needed petition signatures.

I do not know what family, friends, acquaintances, contacts and connections Brian has for helping him get his petition signatures.

Brian has 3,006 followers on Twitter, and these followers should be considered a resource for helping Brian to get his needed petition signatures.

The main purpose of this blog entry is to suggest to Brian that he utilize the campaign tool of organized, direct tweeting to voters in the 4th Congressional district to help him get the petition signatures for being on the 2020 ballot in November.

For an explanation of this campaign tool, see the blog entry Organized, direct tweeting campaign tool and also look at the links in the blog entry of examples of the tool.

This campaign tool needs Brian to have supporters who will spend time doing tweeting that is needed  for the tool to work.

If Brian is interested in exploring the possible use of this tool to help him get petition signatures, a good start would be for Brian to tweet the idea to his followers and see what kind of interest and response he gets from his followers.

After I post this entry on my blog, I will tweet to Brian a link to this blog entry, and he can proceed from there as he sees fit.