MoveOn.org Political Action

MoveOn.Org’s Political Action’s youth voter registration effort was a nine week registration drive. In total, the Grassroots Campaigns directors and canvassing staff ran 57 offices across the country, in 44 cities in 13 key battleground swing states and registered over 230,000 new voters.

In the 2 years leading up to the 2008 election, GCI provided the staff to organize MoveOn's most active members into nearly 200 "Councils" nationwide. These councils took a leading role in MoveOn's massive election recruitment effort to boost the Obama campaign. Councils organized canvasses, held call parties to recruit volunteers in battleground states, and volunteered directly with the Obama campaign. Councils working with GCI staff took an especially leading role in enabling the call party program, which culminated in over 7,480 house parties where volunteers made 2.14 million calls and recruited over 90,000 volunteers for Obama in swing states. After the election, the MoveOn volunteer network translated quickly into post election work; on Nov. 20th, councils organized over 1,000 house parties where members committed to keep organizing to pass a progressive agenda.

Leaugue of Conservation Voters

In October 2008, we teamed up with the League of Conservation Voters to run a campaign in Raleigh, North Carolina and N. Virginia. Our objective was to target infrequent democratic voters and voters with a high voting propensity to persuade them to vote for Obama. Our message distinguished Obama as a better presidential candidate due to his environmental agenda and proposals.

Colorado Initiative Campaign

We worked on two petitions in the Denver office to get progressive ideas on the ballot. The first was an act to keep the equal rights laws that were already on the books in Colorado and keep the funding for all equal opportunity programs in CO. The second issue we worked on was a bill that would ad$321 million in taxes to the oil companies and use that money to fund education and green energy in CO.

After three intense weeks of work, Grassroots Campaigns collected 16,442 signatures, putting the Oil and Gas Tax to the November ballot. Sadly, Coloradans failed to pass the initiative which means there's a lot more work to do.