Aqui En Fresno, Bakersfield, Kings, and Tulare
We are all too familiar with the gap that exists between who lives in our great city and who votes. The “have mores” make up a large share of the likely voters in Fresno and California in general while the “have nots” generally either are not registered to vote or rarely vote.
By targeting unlikely and new voters we have been able to successfully increase voter turn out. This increase in voter turn comes from the lower wage earners who feel a “pinch” a bit more and are more receptive to our issues and message.
As part of this effort we plan to register 75,000 new voters in Fresno, Kings, Kern and Tulare Counties. This plan represents the first phase of this effort. This phase 1 is designed to build our capacity and register 25,000 voters in 2008 starting with a mid year effort. This will give us the opportunity to organize voters so that the politics of the voters begin to change the politics of the candidates and then the politicians themselves. In doing so the coming together of ordinary people to begin to work together to build a better future will dramatically improve our capacity to organize for change and to take that battle to the ballot box.
A study commissioned by SOL in 2007 showed there are an estimated 167,531 unregistered and eligible Latinos in Kings, Kern, Tulare and Fresno County. So far we have registered [link here or show].
We will recruit and train a cadre of organizers who are efficiently skilled at registering new voters. The process for organizing this effort will also prepare us for an expanded SOL network that is skilled and familiar with our grass roots approach to political organizing. For more information contact Patricia Cardona at
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