R-Surag Land Memorandum Assignment
Congressman Pete Olson (R-Sugar Land) is not running for reelection this year in a district that once leaned heavily Republican, but has become more competitive in recent years as Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties have become more diverse.
On March 3, Republicans and Democrats will go to the polls to choose a nominee from each of their parties to compete for this position in the November election. Party primaries require a different type of campaign. The voters tend to be fewer and more partisan – really Republican Republicans and really Democratic Democrats.
Choose one of the candidates and design a campaign to win the primary election. Write this assignment as a 2 – 5 page memorandum (memo) (with cited sources) from you, the campaign manager, to your candidate. Outline the race for them, how much money you think they need to raise, how you will raise it for them, what you propose to spend it on, what issues they should talk about, how you want to deliver their message, etc.
Some things to keep in mind:
This can be a challenging assignment, but it can also be a lot of fun. Keep in mind that campaigning is more art than science, and that there are few absolutely right or wrong answers. If I asked five campaign professionals to do this assignment for the same candidate, I would probably get five totally different campaign strategies (and they’d charge me a lot of money).
R-Surag Land Memorandum Assignment
Hint: Remember, this is a memo to your client, not an essay about your client. Talk to your client. Do not spend the first page telling them where they were born, where they went to college or how many kids they have – they know this already. Talk to them about your strategy to win the election for them.
Submit in Word. Cite your sources.
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Additional Resources
Here are the candidates: Choose one from either party
Republicans
Democrats
Here’s where you can find links to all the candidates’ websites (Remember, it’s a 2020 “federal” election for U.S. Representative District 22 – one in each primary): https://candidate.texas-election.com/Elections/getQualifiedCandidatesInfo.do (Links to an external site.)
Ballotpedia has some good background information about the district: https://ballotpedia.org/Texas%27_22nd_Congressional_District_election,_2020 (Links to an external site.)
Houston Public Media has this article about the race: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/in-depth/2020/01/15/357415/once-solidly-republican-tx-22-now-a-toss-up/ (Links to an external site.)
Wait…what’s a “memo?” https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/memos/sample_memo.html