NOW President Patricia Ireland will join prominent local and state women leaders to kick-off a Women's Votes Count countdown campaign aimed at all levels of government in Illinois -- local, state and federal.  The impressive group of leaders is calling on women to get out and vote for women's rights candidates and issues.

"Women voters made the difference in 1992 -- the so-called Year of the Woman -- when we tripled the number of women senators.  Women voters must also make the difference in 1998 when we send these senators back to Washington, and send them reinforcements," said NOW President Patricia Ireland.
 

 WHO:

• Patricia Ireland and state and local women leaders, including:
• Pamela Sutherland, Planned Parenthood
• Becky Owens, Illinois NWPC
• Sue Clark, Illinois Nurses Association
• Vicki Smith, Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Doris Turner, Central Illinois Democratic Women
• Lynn Otterson, Community Activist

 WHEN: Thursday, October 15, 1998 at 3:00 pm
 
 WHAT: Kick-off of Women's Votes Count Campaign in Illinois
 

This historic kick-off is part of NOW PACs Victory 2000 campaign -- a project to elect 2000 feminists across the nation by the end of the year 2000.

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