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Ellen Craswell has prayer directors in her run for governor.
Prayer director isn't a traditional job in American political campaigns, but Craswell will have 49 of them if everything goes as planned.
They contact people in their churches and Bible study groups, asking for prayers for the campaign and its workers.
Craswell also has enlisted nearly 49 friend-to-friend directors. They contact dozens of people and ask each one, in turn, to mail at least 20 postcards to their respective friends. The postcards, hand-signed and postage-paid by the sender, urge the recipient to vote for Ellen. Some 130,000 were to have gone in the mail Wednesday or Thursday and more are on the way.
Craswell also has or is shooting for 49 sign directors, 49 doorbelling directors, 49 phone-bank directors, 49 finance directors, 49 event directors, 49 get-out the vote directors and 49 computer directors.
Are we missing anyone?
If all the slots in Ellen Craswell's campaign are filled, the 64-year-old Poulsbo Republican would have a coordinator and the nine directors in each of the state's 49 legislative districts.
It's political trench warfare, the nitty gritty of campaigning. And Craswell, it seems, is doing it best among the 15 governor candidates whose names you'll see on the primary election ballot.
Local crusaders
Among those in the trenches here are Ron and Irene Olin of Camas. They met Craswell a year ago when she and her husband were in Clark County, planting the seeds for...