The COS Surge is a very special day planned by grassroots state leaders across the country. On the date chosen for your state, COS grassroots activists "surge" to the state capitol to show their support for the Convention of States resolution, meet with their legislators, and provide them with educational resources.
Every year, COSA supports the state teams in this endeavor by providing high-quality resources for constituents to deliver to every single legislator. Past materials have included Legislator Handbooks, audio CDs, and COS newsletters.
For 2020, COSA is excited to announce that it will provide state teams with the Article V Pocket Guide for each state legislator!
But that isn't all.
Time and time again, we've heard the real-life stories from legislators and volunteers about the power of a good, old-fashioned, handwritten letter to change hearts and minds. So we're setting an audacious goal for a whole new kind of "Surge"--a two-part letter-writing campaign in every district, in every state.
Here's how it will work.
Each state house district will have an appointed leader for the project--usually the District Captain. He or she will ask you to hand-write at least one letter to your state legislator. (That's right--it starts NOW!) The leader will collect all of these letters, and mail one or two of them every day, or every couple of days, to produce a steady "drip" of letters to each legislator.
Then, during the final two weeks before the Surge (usually conducted within the first three months of the year), each district leader would host a letter-writing events to gather additional letters to be hand-delivered to the legislator at the Surge. That final packet of letters will be delivered--along with a Pocket Guide Article V booklet--by a group of constituents who attend the Surge.
Will you help us meet this audacious goal? You can get started today!
