The Kerry Travelers Need People for the Whole Four-Day Period: 10/30 11/2. If You Can Make

The Kerry Travelers need people for the whole four-day period: 10/30--11/2. If you can make it for the whole four days, please get back to us IMMEDIATELY! We will most probably be able to cover your hotel costs if you can stay for the full four days! (Possibly a shared room.) If you are interested in staying some nights but not the full four days, we should be able to find you housing with local Kerry supporters. We also need drivers badly. The effectiveness of volunteers will be predicated on their mobility. So, while we will be running buses, we'd like to encourage you to drive if AT ALL POSSIBLE.

Here's the bus schedule. You'll notice that the buses are quite early. This is because these days will be incredibly hectic up in Wisconsin, and your help will be needed as early as you can possibly get there!

Saturday 10/30: ** Buses leave both 57 W. Grand (Chicago) and 826 Custer (Evanston) at both 8am and 9:30am. Volunteers are asked to arrive a half hour before departure. ** Buses leave Wisconsin shortly after 6pm and return to Chicago/Evanston by 9pm.

Sunday 10/31: ** Buses leave both 57 W. Grand (Chicago) and 826 Custer (Evanston) at both 8am and 9:30am. Volunteers are asked to arrive a half hour before departure. ** Buses leave Wisconsin shortly after 6pm and return to Chicago/Evanston by 9pm.

Monday 11/1: ** Tentatively, we are scheduling no buses for Monday. We hope to get everyone up to Wisconsin by carpool.

Tuesday 11/2: ** Buses leave 57 W. Grand (Chicago) and 826 Custer (Evanston) at 8am.Volunteers are asked to arrive a half hour before departure. ** Buses leave Wisconsin shortly after 8pm and return to Chicago/Evanston by 11pm.

So, sorry for this deluge of information, but we wanted to make you aware of all the opportunities. As always, please RSVP to [email protected] with the following information for each traveler:

1. Name 2. Phone number - cell if you have one, home otherwise. 3. E-mail 4. When exactly you are free to come to Wisconsin. 5. Whether you can drive (and if so, how many others you could take). 6. If you cannot drive, which buses you'd like to ride (time, date, location). 7. In the event that you're staying overnight, whether you'd be willing to stay with a local Kerry supporter. (Recall that people who would prefer not staying with local Kerry supporters and will not be in Wisconsin for four full days will be on their own to find housing.)

If you can't drive, but your availability does not correspond with the bus schedule, we will try to arrange a carpool for you.

11/2: We need 6000 3 hour shifts filled in Milwaukee alone! Come help and say “Bad Andy” sent you! Statewide Road Trip to Victory Coord.: Alexandra Simbana (608) 441-9571, (608) 661-8864, (202) 907- 5518 [email protected] Milwaukee Road Trip to Victory Coord.: Greg Glennie (414) 314-1511 (414) 344-1919 [email protected] 10/31: Road Trip to Davenport! Your help is needed in Iowa. Assemble at 9am. Carpooling. Cars will leave Kerry HQ (57 W Grand) @ 9:30am; gets back early evening (8:30pm) Please RSVP to Nate at [email protected].

Please include: 1) If you are willing to drive and how many volunteers you can take. 2) Your cellular phone number for the organizer.

10/29-10/31: Outreach Trip to Toledo! Riders and drivers needed! Leave early evening on Friday and get back early evening Sunday. Canvassing, phone-banking, and lit-dropping involved. Contact Mike Kaufman at [email protected] to RSVP.

10/30-11/2: Outreach Cell Phone Banking to Get out the Vote in Battleground States Scheduled for the last 3 days of the campaign, AND ELECTION DAY.

Saturday October 30 – all day Sunday October 31 – all day Monday November 1 – all day Tuesday November 2 ELECTION DAY until the polls close

We need free cell phone minutes – you probably have them for the weekend. Maybe you have unlimited or many unused minutes. We’ll need donated minutes for Monday and Tuesday.

Outreach cell phone-banking will occur at the 57 West Grand Street office. We have been asked to do this for Ohio and Michigan it is likely that we will be needed for GOTV for Iowa as well. There will be lists of phone numbers and scripts and you will be calling our supporters in these crucial states and making sure that they get to the polls.

Join the ‘Kerry Chicago’ Yahoo Group!: News about events in Chicagoland: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KerryChicago Volunteer at the Kerry Campaign Office!: Various activities at 57 W. Grand St. 3rd fl. Call beforehand at 312-832-0220 Contribute!: Donate online at https://Contribute.JohnKerry.com IllinoisForKerry.com - news, events, blog