One week from today…
Hello from Linn County!
This is it. One week from today, voters will head to the polls in SD 18 and decide who will control the Iowa Senate.
As Field Director at One Iowa, I have spent the last three and half years helping elect pro-equality candidates because I know what’s at stake for our community—and the stakes could not be higher with this special election.
The slim 26 – 24 pro-equality majority stood firm last year against efforts to enshrine discrimination in our state Constitution. But, if Democratic candidate Liz Mathis loses, and we lose the majority, we could see the far-reaching anti-marriage amendment start moving through the Senate, and begin a process that would end the freedom to marry for loving, committed gay and lesbian couples— in as little as 19 months.
We cannot let this happen. We need your help now to protect the fair-minded majority.
I have been incredibly impressed with the campaign. It’s great to see our allies in labor and the Democratic Party working together to get Liz elected. One Iowa has been doing its part to make sure the voice of equality is heard in this special election. Since the special election was announced, we have mobilized more than 200 local volunteers to make more than 11,000 phone calls to voters in the district. As a result, we have identified more than 900 marriage supporters in the district, and signed up 240 pro-equality voters to vote early.
Now, through our political action committee, the Fairness Fund, I have arrived here in Cedar Rapids to coordinate the final push to get Liz elected. Our volunteers and I are working night and day, knocking on doors, talking to supporters, and urging folks to vote early. And next Tuesday we will be launching a large scale Get Out the Vote strategy to get voters to the polls to make sure pro-equality voices are heard in this election.
I don’t want to be fighting to win a statewide ballot measure and look back on this moment and think, “Could I have done more to prevent this?” Nobody should sit this one out.
To victory,
Matthew Skuya
One Iowa Field Director
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