Hillary Sent Me!

Hillary Clinton, HillPac Chair

The political action committee of Sen. Hillary Clinton, HillPAC, is launching a new grassroots movement on Saturday morning that will help mobilize volunteers to phone-bank, blog and canvass for Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats in tough congressional races. This effort by HillPAC, called “Hillary Sent Me!” will focus on a different battleground state each week.

HILLPAC is committed to electing candidates who are dedicated to the principle that by coming together and working as a community, we can improve opportunity and security for all Americans. HILLPAC works to elect people who want to ensure our country lives up to the ideals of our nation’s founders and embodies the values of the Democratic Party, dedicated to a better future for every child, from every family.

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“As we continue to read the headlines about our troubled economy, the stakes of this election only get higher,” Clinton said in a Friday message. “Today I am asking all of you to hit the phones, hit the road and spread the word that we must elect Barack Obama President and we must send a filibuster-proof majority to Congress.”

“This is a call to action,” Clinton said. “We all have a role. And there is not a moment to lose. Tell them that Hillary sent you.”

Clinton’s speech to the Democratic National Convention at the end of August helped to bridge the gap between the two former rivals, as the former presidential candidate formally asked her delegates to vote for Obama. But John McCain’s campaign has continued to highlight Clinton voters who have endorsed the Republican nominee in a bid to woo disaffected former backers of the New York senator.

Hillary Sent Me! will send supporters to New Hampshire the weekend of September 27 to campaign for Sen. Barack Obama and Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who is fighting for GOP Sen. John Sununu’s Senate seat. The group will mobilize volunteers in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the middle of October.

Other candidates supported by HillPacs are Chris Carney (PA-10), Dina Titus (NV-03) and Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns (NY-03).