SEIU: Members and health care voters launch new ads on eve of first caucuses and primaries

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12/27/2007

CONTACT: Marcus Mrowka, 202-730-7759

- Voters, Caucus Goers Urged to Choose Candidate Who Will Stand With Workers, Fix Health Care Crisis-

Members of the nation’s fastest growing union announced new ads in early primary and caucus states to urge voters and caucus goers to choose candidates who will make a difference in workers’ lives and ensure every American has health care. The ads will appear on billboards in airports and on highways as well as on mobile billboards in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.

“SEIU members and health care voters have been out front engaging candidates and voters on the issues that matter to workers this election like never before,” said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. “These billboards are a final reminder about what this election is really about—a paycheck that supports a family, health care for all, and creating a new American Dream.”

The billboards urge voters and caucus goers to go to the polls next month to choose a presidential candidate who will stand up for workers and make health care a top priority. The mobile billboards will join health care voters holding caucus trainings, distributing health care comparisons of all the Democratic and Republican candidates, and at other events signing up health care voters.

The billboards feature an SEIU corrections officer and a social worker in New Hampshire; a dietician in Iowa; and a school custodian in South Carolina. SEIU members have appeared on billboards in these early states since January.

SEIU members and health care voters have spent more time engaging the candidates on real issues than in any past election. Six presidential candidates have walked a day in SEIU members’ shoes; nearly every Democratic candidate released a comprehensive health care plan; five presidential candidates attended SEIU’s Member Political Action Conference; and health care voters have been attending candidate events to ask Republicans and Democrats their plans for ensuring affordable coverage for all Americans.

You can view the billboards at http://www.WalkADayInMyShoes2008.com and http://www.ImAHealthCareVoter.org.

All of them are here: http://www.walkadayinmyshoes2008.com/billboard/