FreedomWorks Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts Enter 12 Day Sprint

The FreedomWorks 2006 Get Out the Vote (GOTV) effort targets 15 key races around the country and has made more than one million voter contacts to date.

FreedomWorks volunteers and paid staff inject a pro-growth, limited government message into House and Senate races, statewide ballot initiatives, and gubernatorial races across the country including in targeted races in California, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Florida.

In California, FreedomWorks members are fighting two tax initiatives, propositions 86 and 87. Volunteers have distributed more than 2500 voter guides at events around the state, urging Californians to reject new tax hike proposals. Oregon FreedomWorks is promoting a family tax cut initiative and judicial reforms. Oregon director Russ Walker has made dozens of debate, speech and media appearances in the past 45 days and FreedomWorks statements on each ballot initiative have been mailed to every household in Oregon.

In Michigan FreedomWorks has placed hard-hitting billboards across the state to highlight poor economic policies of Governor Granholm. In addition, the Michigan team has reached more than 45,000 households through personal contacts.

FreedomWorks volunteers are gathering signatures for a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights and continue to battle against a proposed universal pre-kindergarten system in Vermont. The North Carolina FreedomWorks chapter has taken members door-to-door with candidate scorecards. The effort has reached more than 50,000 households and is concentrated in the hotly contested 11th Congressional District.

To learn more about our efforts in other states, visit www.freedomworks.org and click on the state of interest. By Election Day, the FreedomWorks message of lower taxes, less government and more freedom will reach more than 2 million people through direct voter contacts.