Subject: [big campaign] AFL-CIO tomorrow night
From: "Alison Omens" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:06:25 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Hi everyone, wanted you to see our plans for tomorrow night. As McCain
accepts the nomination, we'll be out in force talking about his real
record on the economy...

For Immediate Release			Contact: Alison Omens/Steve
Smith
						202-637-5018

 As McCain Accepts Nomination for President
10,000 Union Volunteers to Hit Streets Across America
to Shine Spotlight on His Anti-Worker Record
Volunteers to Knock on More than 200,000 Doors in Battleground States

(Washington, Sept 3) - - More than 10,000 union volunteers will fan out
across the country, including in the Twin Cities, on Thursday, the night
Sen. John McCain accepts the Republican nomination, talking with working
families about McCain’s poor record on their issues and his plans to
continue the failed Bush economic agenda.  The effort kicks off the
final phase of the AFL-CIO’s massive grassroots mobilization, which
will reach over 13 million union voters in 24 battleground states.  The
canvass will include targeted outreach to working-class swing voters.

In more than 150 locations in key battleground states like Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, union volunteers will
highlight McCain’s economic plans and  detail his support for unfair
trade deals, Big Oil and privatizing Social Security, as well as his
plan to tax employer-based health care benefits.

The canvass is the leading edge of the AFL-CIO Labor Day through
Election Day mobilization, the largest in history.  During the final 60
days of the election, 250,000 volunteers will knock on 10 million doors,
make 70 million phone calls and distribute 20 million fliers at
worksites. 

“Working people aren’t happy about McCain’s record on bread and
butter issues,” said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. “As the
Republicans anoint McCain to carry on the Bush legacy in St. Paul,
AFL-CIO working families will be in neighborhoods across America to
ensure union voters have the real information on what a McCain
presidency would mean for working people.”

Door-to-Door canvass locations open to media include:

Phoenix, Ariz.  
Denver, Colo.
Tampa, Fla.
Bowling Green, Ky.
Westbrook & Windham, Maine 
Kansas City, St. Louis, & Springfield, Mo.  
Henderson, Nev.  
Manchester, N.H.
Albuquerque, N.M.
Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, Marietta, & Cincinnati, Ohio
Pittsburgh & Philadelphia, Pa.
Milwaukee, Madison, Eau Claire & Green Bay, Wis.
Annandale & Norfolk, Va.

Reporters nationwide are invited to participate in the canvass to hear
first-hand what working people are saying about the McCain/Palin ticket.
For a full list of locations, contact the AFL-CIO Media Outreach Dept.
at 202-637-5018.

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Alison Omens
AFL-CIO Media Outreach
202-637-5083 phone 
202-341-7263 cell
202-508-6986 fax
[email-masked]

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