--- Lyle Krewson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Lyle.
Bring 200 of the Harkin-Ganske to the Annual Dinner

Charlie

> Appeal to Iowa Sierra Club Group Leaders, in Eagle
> View, White Pine, Cedar
> Prairie, Cedar Wapsie, Northwest, Iowa City and
> Leopold. We need your help!
>
> As you are aware, the Iowa Sierra Club Environmental
> Voter Education
> Campaign (EVEC) seeks to educate members and the
> public to the comparison
> environmental positions of the two major party US
> Senate Candidates, Tom
> Harkin and Greg Ganske, and the two 4th
> Congressional District Candidates
> Tom Latham and John Norris. We have produced a very
> attractive, articulate
> and useful voter guide.
>
> This past weekend we had:
>    - 30 volunteers going door to door in the western
> suburbs of Des Moines
> delivering the Voter Guides to 3000 doors.
>     - 3 volunteers took them to more than 600 homes
> in Ames. (More is
> planned for Ames.)
>     - all that in 2 hours average per volunteer.
>
> Volunteers this week are taking them to:
>     - 800 doors in Norwalk.
>     -100 homes in Pleasant Hill.
>     - and plans are in place to place them at
> 1500-2000 doors in Indianola,
> next weekend.
>
> We have been targeting neighborhoods that are
> heavily populated with young
> families. The Voter Guide is specifically aimed at
> them emphasizing clean
> water, clean air, for our families.
>
> Now I appeal to each Group Leader to commit to
> taking responsibility for
> placing at least
>     - 500 voter guides at the doors of homes in the
> major city in your
> Group.
>     - So...that means getting 10 volunteers for one
> hour, or 5 for 2 hours.
>
> At the Annual Dinner in Iowa City this weekend, I
> will have with me the
> necessary Voter Guides and instructions for each
> Group to take their 500. If
> you can commit to even more than 500, I will be able
> to accommodate that.
>
> So this is the Request: Will you commit your Group
> to at least 500 Voter
> Guides, to be delivered door to door in
> neighborhoods in your area, by the
> following weekend, October 20?
>
> Please let me know how you respond. I will be happy
> to provide any
> assistance I can in terms of how to do this, and
> what works. The volunteers
> this weekend were very positive in reporting their
> experience at doing this.
> And, the exciting thing was, many of them were doing
> first-time volunteering
> in their Sierra Club experience!
>
> We are also targeting 10 county seat towns in the
> 4th Congressional District
> for next weekend, with litdrops of 200-500. It will
> be very impressive to
> make this statewide ³splash² on one weekend, if you
> will help make it
> happen!
>
> The web versions of the Voter Guide are at the
> weblinks below if you want an
> idea of what they are like.
>
> Thanks for your consideration. I do hope your Group
> will help.
>
> THANKS. THANKS. THANKS!
>
> Lyle Krewson
> Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
> EVEC Coordinator
>
> ____________________________________________
> 6403 Aurora Avenue #3
> Des Moines, IA 50322-2862
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> 515/276-8947 - Ofc/Res
> 515/238-7113 - Cel
> ____________________________________________
>
> The Iowa Senate and Congressional District 4 Voter
> Guide, expanded,
> is now posted on the Sierra Club Website. Just click
> below:
>
http://www.sierraclub.org/voter_education/iowa/voter_guide_senate.asp
>
> The general background page for the EVEC program is
> at this Sierra Club
> link:
> http://www.sierraclub.org/voter_education/
>
>


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