AFL-CIO Announces Huge 'FINAL FOUR' GOTV Push
October 30, 2006
100,000 Union Volunteers to Focus on Turning Out Millions of Drop-Off Voters
An unprecedented “Final Four” GOTV program by the AFL-CIO and its community affiliate Working America will deploy 100,000 union volunteers to reach millions of drop-off union voters in the final four days of the election, the AFL-CIO announced today. The “Final Four” program is the capstone push of the AFL-CIO’s drive to change the course of the country by mobilizing more than 13.4 million union voters in 32 states and 515 electoral races at all levels. The AFL-CIO GOTV program is the largest organizational turnout program in the nation, focused on electing candidates who will champion working families’ priorities.
“Working men and women are ready to change the direction of our nation and they will be the foot soldiers who will shift the balance of Congress on November 7,” said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.
The “Final Four” program of worksite contacts, phone calls and front-stoop visits will kick in Saturday, November 4 and run four days, through election day. In the final four days, the AFL-CIO’s 100,000 union volunteers will knock on more than 3.5 million doors, make 5 million calls and reach 1.75 million workers at the worksite. The program will reach union voters with a special emphasis on identified “drop-off voters” – registered union members who voted in 2004 but not 2002.
In addition, Working America will add 500 paid canvassers in three top tier states - - Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- to knock on hundreds of thousands of doors in Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Minnesota’s 1st congressional district and make more than a million phone calls.
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