AFT Launches Multistate Election Bus Tour

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Washington—The 1.5 million-member American Federation of Teachers will kick off a multistate election bus tour this Friday in Ohio, starting in Cincinnati, with additional stops in Toledo and Cleveland. The tour will continue next week with stops across Florida and the Northeast. The "Your Vote-Your Right-Their Futures" tour will build excitement around re-electing President Obama and other pro-worker candidates, and will highlight the on-the-ground organizing, volunteer mobilization, member-to-member communication and get-out-the-vote efforts AFT members are engaging in every day until the election.

On the Ohio leg of the tour, AFT President Randi Weingarten will be joined by AFT Executive Vice President Francine Lawrence, Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper, and local AFT leaders and members. They will meet with community members, union volunteers and union members, and will participate in events in Cincinnati, Toledo and Cleveland in support of President Obama, Sen. Sherrod Brown and other candidates. They will be joined in Cincinnati by Mayor Mark Mallory. In Cleveland, AFT members and others also will mobilize with the community in support of Issue 107, the Cleveland school levy.

The tour will continue next week with stops across Florida, where Weingarten will be joined by AFT Secretary-Treasurer Lorretta Johnson, before making a swing through the Northeast just before Election Day.


http://www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2012/101912.cfm