AIM Accountability Action - August 31, 2006
Over 600 AIM leaders came to show 29 candidates for County Executive and County Council their support for the AIM agenda and to ask each candidate to publicly commit to each agenda item.
All five candidates for County Executive came and each spoke for two minutes to state where they stand on AIM’s Issues. AIM leaders then broke into smaller groups to hear from the county council candidates whose responses were reported to the full AIM audience. Nearly every County Council and County Executive candidate said yes to our five issues including Affordable Housing, Immigration, College Bound, Community Centers and Pedestrian Safety.
Pastor Rebecca Brillhart of Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church gave the Call to Action urging AIM members to hold politicians accountable by getting out the vote in low-voting Montgomery County precincts. At the end of the evening, the congregations took quotas to turn out 100 AIM members to knock on doors to get out the vote, and 100 AIM members to call people in two precincts in Gaithersburg and Burtonsville where AIM is focusing its Get Out The Vote efforts.
Articles on this Action:
Washington Post, 9/7/06
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