Saturday, January 21, 2012

Obama picks NAACP operative to lead African American voter outreach



[ SOURCE ] The Obama campaign has hired a longtime NAACP operative to head its African American voter outreach going into the 2012 presidential election.

Stefanie Brown, the national field director for the NAACP, will join team Obama's Operation Vote in February. The program is geared toward outreach to key Democratic constituency groups, including African Americans, Latinos, Jews, the LGBTQ community, the young and the elderly.

"African-American voters were among the president's strongest supporters in 2008, and I am thrilled to help build that fervor again for 2012," Brown said in a statement. "The president is going to need our community more than ever this year, and I look forward to working together to win a victory on Nov. 6."

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