Courage Campaign Issues Committee Sends "2008 Progressive Voter Guide" and Mobile Phone Voter Guide to Nearly 100,000 California Members

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October 15, 2008

  

Courage Campaign Issues Committee Sends “2008 Progressive Voter Guide” and Mobile Phone Voter Guide to Nearly 100,000 California Members

Easy-to-Use Voter Guide Includes Recommendations from Nine Other Leading Progressive Organizations

 
LOS ANGELES – Using online tools to provide progressive grassroots and netroots activists the information they need to persuade voters before November 4, the Courage Campaign Issues Committee today published the “2008 Progressive Voter Guide,” an online and mobile guide designed to help the Courage Campaign’s nearly 100,000 members and their friends and families understand all twelve of the November ballot measures.

“This guide is Courage Campaign’s tool for peer-to-peer persuasion, which has always had the greatest impact on voting,” said Rick Jacobs, chair of the Courage Campaign Issues Committee. “Technology and social networking play a major role in elections, especially this year. The guide offers both tech-friendly formats and vital information to empower progressive grassroots and netroots activists to persuade their friends and neighbors.”

The Courage Campaign’s 2008 Progressive Voter Guide contains short, easy-to-read, recommendations, a handy chart of recommendations from numerous leading progressive organizations across California and a mobile phone guide that can easily be taken into the polling place and sent to friends.

The Courage Campaign’s 2008 Progressive Voter Guide can be downloaded at:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/2008voterguide

To receive the guide on your mobile phone, text VOTECA to 69866.

“2008 is an historic election nationally, but it is also an historic election for California. Two of the initiatives on the ballot would remove rights from people — Props 4 and 8,” Jacobs said. Others will impact our state for decades to come. Our job is to educate and empower Californians to choose wisely among a dozen complicated initiatives.”

Last week, the Courage Campaign Issues Committee launched a web ad that uses humor to educate voters about the consequences of Proposition 8. The ad — “Gender Auditors” — can be viewed at the Courage Campaign’s “Pledge to Vote No on Prop 8” page at:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/NoOnProp8

And earlier this month, the Courage Campaign Issues Committee took action on Proposition 4 by launching an aerial advertising blitz featuring an aircraft towing a banner stating “Sarah Palin – Thanks, But No Thanks! No on Prop 4!”. The message was the result of an online campaign asking Courage Campaign members what they wanted to say to vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as she attended an outdoor rally at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
 
 

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