**Advisory and Contact Info** Sierra Club Votes "527" Campaign Heads into Final Stretch Thousands of Volunteers Get Out the Vote in 11 Key Sites in Nine States

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Sierra Club Votes "527" Campaign Heads into Final Stretch

Thousands of Volunteers Get Out the Vote in 11 Key Sites in Nine States

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Sierra Club Votes "527" Campaign Heads into Final Stretch

Thousands of Volunteers Get Out the Vote in 11 Key Sites in Nine States

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Nov. 2 -/E-Wire/-- Heading into the final days of the 2004 election, thousands of Sierra Club volunteers are mobilizing around the country to get out the environmental vote in battleground states and raise the profile of environmental issues in the 2004 election.

Sierra Club principals and on-the-ground spokespeople are available for comment before and after the election. In addition, Sierra Club Votes will release a poll on Election Day concerning voter opinions about the most critical environmental issue in this year's election – the designation of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a national nuclear waste repository.

The Sierra Club Votes "527" campaign already has proved a tremendous success. In nine battleground states, staff and volunteers have knocked on more than 1 million doors, made more than 1 million phone calls, and sent more than 2.2 million pieces of direct mail. Additionally, some targeted voters participated in the Sierra Club's first Internet outreach campaign. As of October 31, Sierra Club Votes was responsible for more than 4.2 million direct contacts to environmental voters and the recruitment of nearly 12,000 new volunteers.

Sierra Club members and staff will spend the final day of the campaign getting out the vote as part of the America Votes coalition. Spokespeople are available in the following areas:

National: To schedule interviews with principals who are traveling in battleground states, call Sierra Club National Media Director Kerri Glover at [REDACTED-PHONE]. · Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director and America Votes board member , in Philadelphia and New York City on November 2 · Larry Fahn, Sierra Club President, in Reno, NV on November 2

Local Sierra Club Votes Locations: Following are cell phone numbers for Sierra Club Votes spokespeople in battleground states: · Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM: Jessica Hodge, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Columbus, OH: Bryan Clark, [REDACTED-PHONE] · New Hampshire: Kurt Ehrenberg, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Las Vegas, NV: Tara Smith, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Milwaukee, WI: Joyce Harms, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN: Heather Cusik, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Philadelphia, PA: Elise Annunziata, [REDACTED-PHONE] or Brian O'Malley, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Pittsburg, PA: Rachel Martin, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Portland, OR: Paul Shively, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Reno, NV: Illysia Shattuck, [REDACTED-PHONE] · Tampa Bay, FL: Darden Rice, [REDACTED-PHONE]

http://www.sierraclubvotes.org

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