Immediate need for speakers of Asian languages...

Written by: Richard Erwin on Oct 18, 2006 1:04 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Eastside DFA

Folks;

As part of our volunteer efforts on behalf of the Darcy Burner campaign, Andrew Tsao and I have been focusing on API (Asian/Pacific Islander) voter outreach in the 8th Congressional District.

With 22,000 registered API voters, the 8th CD is home to one of the fastest-growing minority populations in Washington State - more than doubling within the last decade.

Given that, in the latest poll between Darcy Burner and Dave Reichert, 61% of all undecided voters were API, and the statistical dead heat in which the race stands, the API vote has become critical.

Accordingly, we have been working on developing various initiatives to get Darcy's message out to API voters, and the DNC has decided that these initiatives deserve their support.

One of them is language-specific phone banking: calls with a surname match that speak the language of the potential supporter.

Thus, we have an immediate need for anyone who is fluent in Mandarin, Vietnamese or other Asian languages.

If you can provide time for one or more evenings of up to two hours each for language-specific phone banking between now and election day, please contact myself or Andrew Tsao for details.

Thanks,
Rich Erwin
WK: 425.373.2844
HM: 425.614.0989

Andrew Tsao
CEL: 425.647.9667

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