Volume
1 Issue 2 - April 2001
$1 Million Contribution
"The donations will go to candidates for state and federal offices and related election activities."
Voter News Network organizers, including Birmingham-based banker and publisher Donald V. Watkins, met in Tampa, Florida last January and committed to contribute $1 million in personal political donations for the November, 2002 elections in Alabama. The donations will go to candidates for state and federal offices and related election activities. Voter News Network will not donate monies to political parties. The $1 million level of political contributions from individuals and their families will rank Voter News Network leaders number five on the top 400 list of political donors in the nation, according to the March/April 2001 issue of Mother Jones Magazine (www.motherjones.com).
Voter News Network leaders, who already contribute heavily in the political arena, will channel their donations to voter registration and education activities, get-the-vote-out efforts aimed at independent voters, and to candidates supported by Voter News Network. Voter News Network will also ask the subscribers in our 155,000 database to participate in the fundraising at whatever level is comfortable for them. This participation may well increase the level of donations beyond the $1 million committed by Voter News Network's organizers.
Voter News Network will grade candidates for statewide and federal offices against established criteria designed to measure their sensitivity to the core values of independent and swing voters. Voter News Network will inform its base of voters of the grade each candidate receives at 7:00 p.m. on the Monday evening before the Tuesday general elections. The report card on candidates will be posted on our web site at www.VoterNewsNetwork.com.
Related Links:
Birmingham News' article on Voter News Networks' contribution.
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