thecontractorsside.com

Lee W. Dodson

3508 Loma
Lada Drive

Los Angeles
CA 90065

323.243.0404

May 14, 2008 

BLOG: 

TO LEAD IS TO SERVE 

To straight-up people in
the construction trade: 

As you know
thecontractorsside.com has allied with a bunch of the good guys
in the business of building to do something so good for the outside
world. We put up the MOMMIE HAMMER on eBay to raise money for
free mammograms for women who can’t afford them. 

There’s not only one reason
for us doing this. 

If we are to prove up as
the ones who make society tick by making space for work, for home, and
everything in between, we have to remind that society who we are. 

For a long time, longer
than most of us care to remember, contractors have gotten just about
every bad rap imaginable, and nobody’s reminded the bad rappers exactly
what kind of people contractors really are. 

If you drove on it, work
in it, live in it, a contractor built it. We build factories, harbors,
stores, shopping centers, infrastructure like water works, sewers,
treatment plants. Somebody did it, and it was us. 

But people pretty much forget
about who did the work, and how well it was done until some idiot goes
on television and talks about some bad job or some rip off. 

We are pretty much invisible
like the elves in the cobbler shop. 

What this project, the Mommie
Hammer project, does is it makes us visible in an area where we are
usually the last ones anybody would consider. It gets us out there,
in front of the public, caring about something besides hardware, concrete,
lumber, and steel. 

Sure, getting mammograms
to needy women is a good thing, maybe a great thing, we may never know
or hear about a life we save, but just as important is getting our mugs
out there as the good people we are. 

Bottom lines count, so I
urge you to nudge your price up a couple of bucks so when we hand over
the check, it’s a noticeable amount., but if you can’t make it more,
you can’t, so don’t sweat it. If you’re on board, it’s going
to help project what we’re doing at
thecontractorsside.com. 

And believe me, the more
contractors signing on to the project, the better because numbers count….like
in how many people we get on board. 

If it looks like all the
hammers are taken, don’t worry, we can get more, and we’ll be watching
carefully to see that every one who makes a bid gets one. 

Take five minutes and
set it right, and try to do it today. We need 1000 independent men and
women to make an order.

Thanks,  

Lee W. Dodson 

thecontractorsside.com