Change To Win: Beaver State Brings Obama Victory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

CONTACT: Greg Denier
Noreen Nielsen
202-721-0660

PORTLAND, OREGON -- Change to Win members across the Beaver State waged an aggressive grassroots effort to help push Barack Obama to victory in yesterday’s Democratic primary election. With more than 80,000 members in Oregon, Change to Win members and volunteers knocked on tens of thousands of doors, made hundreds of thousands of phone calls, and reached out to members at worksites across the state to mobilize working voters for Sen. Obama.

“Change to Win members and volunteers pushed Sen. Barack Obama to victory in the Beaver State last night, bringing him the majority of pledged delegates and within reach of clinching the Democratic nomination for the president of the United States of America,” said Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian. “Now it’s time for the Democratic Party to unite together for victory in November and bring the change working families need.”

Change to Win members and volunteers in Oregon:

  • Made more than 150,000 phone calls
  • Knocked on nearly 30,000 doors, targeting key areas including North/Northeast Portland, Southeast Portland and Gresham
  • Sent hundreds of thousands of direct mail pieces to Democratic households across the state
  • Helped manage key get-out-the-vote staging locations in Portland and Tigard
  • Conducted member-to-member education and mobilization efforts at worksites throughout the state

** Note: Media representatives interested in scheduling an interview to discuss Change to Win’s grassroots efforts in the Oregon primary election should contact Noreen Nielsen at Noreen.nielsen@changetowin.org. **