I blogged out the other day about the 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.  I reported that 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 commiting to recruit employees, elected officials recruiting their respective political organization members, and I also pointed out that it was significant that was the public embrace of veteran Black grassroots street activists included in the public press conference and on the mobilization team showed just how serious the effort is to get out Black grassroots community votes to retain Quinn as Governor.

On stage at the press conference were grassroots leaders and activists like Brother Kublai Toure, Wallace Gator Bradley and other allies who work with ex-offender groups across the city and state getting them involved in civic and voter education and watched them strategically networking after the press conference. And I guess that investment is paying off when this weekend you began to see the Quinn street sign visibility, literature distribution, door to door contact, and even phone banking to grassroots groups encouraging voter turnout. These street leaders and organizations presence is certainly being seen and felt, and I commend the Quinn Campaign for their public embrace of the street activists and their constituencies. Their votes count too!

 

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