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Issued October 15, 2008

SEIU Members Stepping Up Their Efforts for Obama-Biden Ticket

With More Than 3,000 Members and Staff in the Field Full-Time, SEIU Helping To Bring the Change Working Families Need

WASHINGTON, DC -- With just three weeks to go until Election Day, SEIU members across the country are stepping up their efforts to elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden so they can bring about the change working families need. Working with Change to Win partners, SEIU will hold a series of events in battleground states each week to highlight the difference between the candidates on health care reform, good jobs and wages that can support a family.

Nurses, homecare workers, security workers, janitors, public employees and SEIU members are pounding the pavement to make sure the voices of working men and women are heard in this election," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "Over these final three weeks, SEIU will make it clear to every voter we talk to that the choice is clear - change or more of the same. A vote for Obama is a vote for health care for all, ending the war in Iraq, rebuilding the Middle Class and creating a new American Dream for everyone."

Events will be held in battleground states across the country, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

More than 3,000 SEIU members, local and International staff are already working full time in swing states - with tens of thousands volunteering on weekends and evenings -- to elect Barack Obama. With just under three weeks to go, SEIU has already:

* knocked on 1,211,075 doors.
* made 6,874,991 phone calls.
* registered 80,439 new voters.
* sent more than 5.7 million pieces of mail about the presidential election to targeted households.

SEIU has played a leading role in the presidential election by:

* Making health care a central issue through activities like hosting the first presidential forum focused on health care, educating voters on McCain's health care plan and sponsoring the Road to American Health Care bus tour.
* Highlighting John McCain's terrible record for working families through reports, "Dear John" letters and field activities.
* Distributing more than 250,000 copies of the "The Facts about John McCain's Health Care Plan," a DVD about John McCain's shameful record on senior health care to senior voters.
* Protecting voting rights, including in key battleground states like Indiana, where following a week of intensive legal and public education efforts led by SEIU and allies in Lake County, Indiana, early voting opened in the cities of Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond.

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Updated Jul 15, 2015