Change To Win: Beaver State Brings Obama Victory

PORTLAND, Ore., May. 21 /PRNewswire/ --

PORTLAND, Ore., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- 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

About Change to Win

Seven unions and six million workers united in Change to Win to build a new movement of working people equipped to meet the challenges of the global economy and restore the American Dream in the 21st century: a paycheck that can support a family, affordable health care, a secure retirement and dignity on the job. The seven partner unions are: International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union of North America, Service Employees International Union, UNITE HERE, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Farm Workers of America, and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.