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 “splash” 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

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Des Moines, IA 50322-2862

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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/