This week has started off with our regular routine of Phone Banking, but this time we were focusing on a different issue: Getting People out to Vote in the runoff election!!!! Our team focused on Henderson County. We made a number of phone calls to inform citizens about the upcoming election on July 17, 2012 and gave them early voting information as well. What we found out as we started to make some of the calls is that a number of citizens were well informed about the upcoming election and were planning to vote; a decent number of them had voted already.
The Move to Amend tour stopped through Greenville, NC on Tuesday night and we were in attendance to hear David Cobb, an executive committee member, give a very insightful and inspiring speech regarding the history of the United States, the power that we as citizens have, and then went ahead to break down the Citizens United decision and how it affects us as citizens. He finished by encouraging us to band together to fight against this Citizens United decision. Melissa Price Kromm, the Coalition Director of North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, will be providing a video link to his speech soon. This is definitely something you should see!
Today marks the first meeting of Democracy Rocky Mounty, and we will be discussing plans pertaining to Souls to the Polls, Youth Outreach/September Voter Registration Awareness Month and the County Board of Election Outreach. We are very excited to be having our first meeting and looking forward to it being a success! We will be wrapping our week up with some Voter Registration in Kinston and we have a meeting scheduled to speak with Mayor King of Goldsboro, NC.
This week has been an exciting one thus far and we are looking forward to finishing this week off strong!
Killian Moye
Greenville Team
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