Theme: Power Brokers
True or False? Heritage is an election issue
Question: How can we make heritage an election issue?
Here are some of your thought provoking answers
- Invite politicians to positive events
- hold more cocktail parties/ receptions/ awards
- built rapport with candidates and politicians
- consistent messaging with the media
- must come from grassroots organizations
- Prove economic viability and how it affects numerous industries
- Support candidates that support heritage publicly
- Get specific statements from politicians – not sound bites.
- Conduct candidate surveys
- Be shameless
- Educate politicians
- Use one-on-one meetings with each candidate
- Make it easier for politicians to support heritage by building coalitions with other community and advocacy groups
- Sponsor all-candidate meetings