A major powerful Black United front of a few hundred - an intergenerational group of Black elected officials, religious and business leaders combined with a number of veteran Black grassroots street activists packed together into the historic Parkway Ballroom announcing their major street mobilization plans for Quinn For Governor.  Getting out the Black vote for Quinn's was proven to be SERIOUS when you looked across the room and saw the cross section of business leaders committing to recruit employees, elected officials recruiting their respective political organization members, and then to see their public embrace of veteran Black grassroots street activists on the mobilization team shows how serious the effort is to get out Black grassroots community votes to retain Quinn as Governor.

The most powerful presentation to all the religious leaders came from the legendary Rev. Clay Evans who led the charge to hundreds of other Black religious leaders on doing major field mobilization of its collective church members by the hundreds to mobilize major street mobilization for Quinn For Governor.  Havent seen the Rev. Clay Evans speak this emotional about an election since the days of The Harold Washington Campaigns and the historic Presidential campaigns of Rev. Jesse Jackson.  Rev. Evans was as serious and emotional as I have seen him in years and you can tell that charge was being received by the Black religious leaders in the room.

Rev. Evans was serious when he told them NOT to be afraid to go and tell respective church members how important the election is, and to all be committed to having specific teams of members on the field team encouraging more members to vote early so they can be free to help work the streets this weekend and thru election day.

In addition to the leaders and activists strategically networking after the press conference,  I looked over an witnessed the strategic corner of Black social media leaders who have started and will be continuing to flood a host a Black social media sites with Get-Out-The-Vote recruitment for Quinn.  I guess the election is SERIOUS when you see this kind of intergenerational group of the Black community get together as I witnessed today, and many of whom I havent seen together in the same room working together in some time. Guess this Governors race IS that important.

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