Phones and Technology Help Elect First Muslim Congressional Candidate and Protect Civil Rights and the Environment with Patch-Through Programs

Winning Elections Is What We Do

Every year, Winning Connections strategically uses phones and technology in hundreds of races to identify, persuade and mobilize voters by engaging them in dialogue. This year, we have worked with clients in 33 states and tackled everything from city council races to statewide senate campaigns. On Primary Day in September, 10 out of 15 clients won their races.

One of our clients last month was Keith Ellison, who won the Democratic nomination in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Next month Ellison will be the first Muslim elected to a seat in the U.S. Congress, facing only token opposition in the overwhelmingly Democratic district. Many observers consider these times a tough political climate in which to elect a Muslim Congressman, but Winning Connections helped Keith Ellison connect with voters in last month’s primary election win.

Winning Policy Fights to Protect the Earth and Civil Rights

Winning Connections uses phone strategies to give our clients an edge in policy battles. In July, our firm created a patch-through hotline program generating over 12,000 calls to Congress to push leaders to renew the Voting Rights Act without any provisions that would weaken voting rights for minorities.

Our clients range from civil rights groups to senior citizen advocacy organizations, environmental groups, healthcare organizations, trade unions, housing advocates and corporations like Toll Brothers.

Recently, Winning Connections has also helped environmental groups mobilize constituents to protect the Earth and those who live here:

• In Pennsylvania, we generated patch-through calls moving targeted state senators on a “clean cars” measure.

• In the state of Washington, our patch-through program convinced Rep. Dave Reichert to vote against rolling back logging regulations.

• In California, we utilized the same program to mobilize voters against lifting the federal moratorium on off-shore drilling.