Operation 214 --We need you to join the Veterans Team
1. Situation
Convention of States Action in Kansas is entering a new phase of the Convention of States Project as a federal judge will soon decide if Kansas is a passed state in the decision on Thompson v. Masterson in US District Court For the District of Kansas.
Kansas volunteers have collected 45,000 signatures petitioning their Kansas Legislators to pass the COS resolution. This total represents approximately 2.25% of all Kansas voters. These signatures have been collected by either peer-to-peer or mass media communication. Petition growth has stagnated as easily-reached groups have been exposed to the COS project. These groups include conservative and Christian radio and TV.
There has been no attempt to reach veterans groups in Kansas. Veterans account for eleven percent of petitions signed. Twenty-five percent of assigned Kansas volunteers are veterans. Only three percent of the 150,000 Kansas veterans have signed the petition.
2. Mission
Kansas COS will conduct operations to grow the Kansas grassroots closer to the critical mass required to sustain COS support by recruiting 25,000 petition signers and 200 volunteers by 31 December 2025, of which 100 new volunteers are veterans.
3. Execution
a. COS Action Kansas team will conduct a multi-phase plan to add petition signers by recruiting and training new volunteers to participate in grassroots growth operations across Kansas.
b. Phase 1 will recruit existing veterans to accept assignments to Veteran Coalition Director Teams (VCDs) to recruit more veterans as petition signers and to the VCD Team from friends, family and veterans groups. Veterans will be organized into regional VCD teams under a Veterans Coalition Director (VCD) for each region or subregion. Phase 1 will be initiated with a mass communication invitation to existing veterans to onboard as VCD Team members.
c. Phase 2 will be the conduct of various events across Kansas to add petitions and volunteers by COS grassroots activists. Each event will be organized by a Regional Captain (RC) or District Captain (DC) with the VCD Team providing direct support when requested by the local Captain or Volunteer Activist and approved by the State Veterans Coalition Director. Alternatively, the VCD may organize an event in the absence of a RC or DC.
d. The SVCD is tasked to identify and onboard VCD’s across the state COS regions and subregions such as Liberal, Dodge, Goodland, Hays. The SVCD will exploit the available VCD’s to organize subregions. VCD’s are tasked to train VCD Team members.
4. Administration and Logistics
a. All COS procedures for event payment requests, petition collection, follow up, and role assignment will not change except that VCD’s shall approve VCD Team assignments and the SVCD shall approve all VCD and VCD Team assignments.
b. Planned events shall be reported to the State Communications Coordinator for posting to the Team Up Grassroots Calendar in as far in advance as possible.
c. RC’s and DC’s shall be responsible for requesting COS payments for planned events. If a VCD initiates an event without a RC or DC the VCD shall be responsible for requesting resources for the event.
5. Command and Signal
a. All VCD Team members and VCD’s will have Dashboard access.
b. A Veterans Coalition channel will be initiated on Slack. All requests for VCD Team support will be made on Slack by direct message to the SVCD.
c. Slack is the preferred comms platform for VCD Teams however any available platform may be employed.
d. The SVCD shall maintain comms with VCD’s and shall determine the method and frequency of comms. VCD’s shall similarly maintain comms with VCD Team members in order to respond to requests for support. The SVCD and VCD’s shall participate in the national VC and state team calls.
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