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#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: October 6, 2016<\/b>
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EXCLUSIVE IN TODAY’S POLITICO PLAYBOOK: <\/strong>Today, HRC announced the<\/a> latest push in the organization’s largest get-out-the-vote effort in its more than 35-year history. It’s a multi-state targeting campaign that for the first time reaches well beyond the nation’s nearly 10 million LGBTQ voters to mobilize the growing ranks of allies and others with a history of supporting equality. “Our new model allows us to reach out directly to hundreds of thousands of voters not yet affiliated with HRC, but who have demonstrated an openness to creating a more equal and fair society,” said HRC President Chad Griffin <\/strong>(@ChadHGriffin)<\/a>. In North Carolina alone, HRC expects to reach more than 400,000 voters through phone calls<\/a> and an online persuasive advertising campaign unprecedented for the organization. Potential pro-equality voters have been identified using years of HRC polling, public voter files and other available data. “LGBTQ equality is no longer a wedge issue, but one embraced by a clear majority of Americans, and particularly younger Americans,” Griffin <\/strong>said. “In fact, being anti-LGBTQ is now a liability.” HRC is initially targeting five states – North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, with more to come.<\/p>\n

TIM KAINE TELLS CNN<\/em> HE WANTED DEBATE TIME ON LGBTQ RIGHTS: <\/strong>This morning, Tim Kaine told Poppy Harlow (@PoppyHarlowCNN<\/a>) on CNN<\/em> that he would have loved to debate Mike Pence on LGBTQ rights. Clinton and Kaine represent the most pro-equality presidential ticket in history. Trump and Pence, on the other hand, have vowed to roll-back LGBTQ rights at every turn. Pence has made a career of opposing equality, with a track record that includes Indiana’s anti-LGBTQ legislation that cost the state more than $60 million, publicly supporting offsetting funding for HIV prevention with funding for the abusive practice of so-called “conversion therapy,” opposing hate crime legislation and supporting “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” Watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HRC FOR HRC IN THE GRANITE STATE: <\/strong>HRC President Chad Griffin is heading to New Hampshire today and Friday to rally support for Hillary Clinton and other pro-equality candidates, including U.S. Senate candidate Maggie Hassan (@Maggie_Hassan<\/a>). Events include an organizing event in Concord, phone banking at Dartmouth College and a roundtable conversation with Seacoast area residents. At the events, Griffin will discuss the stark choice members of the LGBTQ community face this election. Members of the LGBTQ community have the power make the difference in November, including in New Hampshire, which has an estimated 40,000 LGBTQ voters — nearly identical to President Obama’s 39,643-vote winning margin in the state in 2012. The events are part of HRC’s #turnOUT<\/a> campaign, an effort to engage nearly 10 million LGBTQ voters this election cycle.<\/p>\n