Classic.
Late night satisfaction at the O for Terry’s sendoff-
Good luck in law school Terry! We’ll miss you!
It’s an E-Day GOTV Swarm
October 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in League News, Photos, Upcoming Events, Volunteers Opportunities
Our office was completely packed for E-Day orientation this week, as dozens of eager volunteers came in to get trained and scheduled to get out the vote on Tuesday.
They ranged in age from 17 years old to over 50. We gave them all a t-shirt and the list of canvasser rules and rights, and got them scheduled for either a whole-day or half-day shift.
IF YOU MISSED THE ORIENTATION… Saturday, Nov. 1st at 1pm in our office you can still get trained and scheduled to push those voters out the door! Call 412-362-7927 with questions.
Tags: election day, orientation, training, volunteers“Unlock the Vote” Poster Contest Winner announced!
October 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in League News, PA League in the News, Photos, Uncategorized
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Janel Ganaway, age 12, submitted the winning design for the PA League of Young Voters “Unlock the Vote” poster contest.
Pittsburgh student programs were asked to design a poster that said why it was important to vote. The winner was selected at the last PA League Presidential Debate Watch Party by those in attendance. Janel was part of the Mission Discovery student program at the Hill House.
Way to go, Janel! One thousand copies of your poster have been printed and distributed throughout the city in selected neighborhoods. The poster contest was part of the PA League’s ongoing Unlock the Vote program, which encourages inmate and ex-offender communities to know their rights, get registered, and vote.
Janel Ganaway, in front on the far right, with fellow Mission Discovery students and local hip-hop favorites, Wiz Khalifa (left) and Jasiri X (far right).
I pledge to vote because…
- Dylan Lampe, headed to the post office.
1,150 people pledged to vote, for whatever reason was most important to them.
Today, we mailed all of those voter pledges back to the voters, so they will have a reminder arrive in their hands just days before election day.
Simone and Liz are having a pledge-card-stamping party and wish you were here.
Westmoreland Candidates Forum
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Hello from the Westmoreland Co candidate forum! Put together by the League of Women Voters, candidates Anthony Bompiani and John Boyle were in attendance. I submitted a question asking if they would support a reincarnation of the Reach Scholarship; we’ll see what they have to say. TWO MORE FORUMS LEFT!!! -Carly
Tags: candidates, candidates forum, election, vote, voter education, voter guidesVoter Registration: It’s Over (for now)
Voter Registration: It’s Over (for now)
Pa League canvasser for the “Unlock the Vote” Project registers another happy NEW voter who got their registration in right before the deadline to be able to vote in this fall election.
A day in the life of the League
October 5th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in From the Field, League News, PA League in the News, Photos, Volunteers Opportunities
The League: Hot in the Streets!
Saturday October 4th was a great day for the PA League! We had so many wonderful volunteers wake up early to go canvassing with us and the Steelworkers in Penn Hills and North Versailles to make an impact on the upcoming election.
- Akil Esoon registered Mabel Rose, who is 101 years old and living in Penn Hills.
It was extra exciting because the PA League recently has been getting national recognition for our efforts. On Saturday, CNN brought their film crews out to North Versailles to capture the excitement and the hard work that we have all been doing to reach out to those new and unlikely voters.
You can catch the footage on CNN American Morning showing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week!
Want to be a part of the excitement? Come join us to help make a difference in this year’s election and beyond!
Engaging the next generation of young leaders!
CMU Political Trivia
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MC and City Council President Doug Shields shows off his fly new duds for political junkies at Carnegie Mellon during thei. He promised to wear the new rocking jacket the League gave him in Council Chambers on Tuesday, so watch the City Channel next week to see his rhinestones glitter. City councilmen Shields and Bill Peduto were on hand to emcee the CMU grad student political trivia night, where the PA League was invited to register last-minute voters and recruit volunteers for election day.
City Council President Shields won the jacket at a previous Elvis-themed fundraiser the PA League held, where young voters in attendance voted for which public figures they felt deserved the hand-decorated Elvis jackets. (Miraculously, Doug’s jacket fit him perfectly. He reportedly wore it out to Kelly’s afterwards; please send us any photos. 
Standing up for America
Standing Up for America!
Terry and I spent the morning with our friends Jerry, Andy, and Kelly from the United Steelworkers at the US Steel Clairton Works making sure that everyone there was registered to vote before the registration deadline Monday. Thanks to the USW for bringing us in.
You may be wondering, why, standing up for America, is Terry crouching in this photo? I suggest spending a little time out talking to voters with him, and you will see that he does things his own way. Not that he is any less effective for it: there are a few people who will be out at the polls November 4 who would not have been able to vote this year without Terry’s dedication this morning!
Mac
Tags: 2008, canvassing, election, new voters, Pennsylvania, registration, steelworkers, voterRegistering Voters makes the News!
September 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in From the Field, PA League in the News, Photos, Volunteers Opportunities
We got a spot in the Post-Gazette for our jail registration work in conjunction with Just Harvest; Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN; the Community Voters Project; Work for Progress; and Duquesne University nursing and political science students last week!
Tags: allegheny county, Allegheny County Jail, disenfranchised, election, ex-offenders, inmates, pa league of young voters, pa league of young voters education fund, Pennsylvania, registration, unlock the vote, vote, voter, Voting“Spearheaded by inmate program director Jack Pishke, it was the largest registration effort to date at the jail and the only one jail officials knew of statewide, in anticipation of the last registration day: Oct. 6.
In a dizzying two hours, the group helped to complete 456 new registrations and about 700 absentee ballot applications.
Unlike most of the younger volunteers, Ms. Rabinowitz, 67, of Park Place, had been in jail before. She was locked up with a group of organizers for two separate stretches in 1963, after the group was arrested for registering rural black voters in the south with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Those voters, she said, were scared because “they’d never had the right to vote before and we couldn’t tell them it wasn’t dangerous.”
The jail inmates today were just eager. And hopeful.”